Originally Posted by
mvoight
So, you're saying the 90K award that I used for a relative to go to Moscow next summer in business class is worth less than $900?
There are business class trips to Euope in October for 90K.. well 100K now that it just turned Oct 1 here.
Plenty of destinations in the US for 25k miles for domestic.
We used a few 40K awards for Paris for Spring Break. We saved about $1300 for each person for the dates we wanted.
If you think they are worth less than 1 cent, you are using them incorrectly.
I haven't check European trips lately (go there for work enough as it is), but the last 2 domestic trips I tried to book with miles, only 50k coach tickets were available and I am fairly flexible on my dates by +/- a couple of days. Buying the tickets outright was $400.
I'm sure you all are going to tell me that I should book them 10mo out as soon as the flight opens up. Well, that would be nice....if I were retired! Maybe it is my field of work, but who honestly can plan a trip that far in advanced?