Originally Posted by
f0zzyNUE
actually 40000 miles is a 50% disount from 80.000 (or 77.000) miles such an award costs normally.
I'll concede, both 80k and 40k can be a very welcome deal: When and if it saves you a €-paid ticket in one of the higher fare classes. I used the current Euro-promotion myself and spent 10k+10k to save me € 750 on a ticket to Nice.
At least NKG and SHE show up in deals all the time, though, and if I want to go there, I'd rather pay € 400 - 700 than 40k miles + (at least) € 250 in tax.
Fares might be different for ICN und PUS.