Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
My worst use of miles was letting all my US miles expire. Oh wait, maybe that was my best use of miles...
25,000 miles for $500+ ticket isn't a bad deal in my book. Especially when you're sitting on half a million miles, the trip is only 800 miles each way (or 350 for SFO-SBA), and you already have top-tier status locked up.
Whether or not domestic redemptions make sense will depend largely upon the person and their travel plans.
Since all of my travel is leisure travel and paid for out of pocket, spending 25,000 miles for an upgrade from NRT to JFK has much more value to me than a domestic Y award ticket.
As someone without half a million miles, and no status to speak of on any airline, I use what miles I do have carefully.