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Thread title amended to note UA and if OP can confirm a US RT we can include it as well.
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Originally Posted by notsosmart
But $600 to Europe in the summer is MR-worthy (since it's mostly gas and taxes), especially for those of us who are not sociopaths and actually enjoy having some sort of destination at the end of a trip. DUS will always be better than CLT, or wherever.
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I always have the "summer European travel conundrum" because it's almost never worth buying a summer coach ticket to Europe (especially lately) , and it's never worth redeeming mileage for "just Europe" from the East Coast. Like with UA, you can book a coach ticket to Asia -- and stop in Europe -- for 65,000 miles. For 60,000 you only get Europe.
Alas, $610 isn't enough of a bargain for me either, even though it's way cheaper than the average summer European fare.
The way I'm solving this problem is redeeming 30,000 Avios miles to fly BOS-DUB, but that's obviously not for everyone.
