Originally Posted by
lucky9876coins
You don't make any small purchases at all right now?
Actually I'm mostly out of the country- so making international purchases on my debit card just to churn a deal isn't very economical. Any internet transactions you recommend to fulfill the debit card purchases quickly? (Preferably an automated method of making the purchases...)
Originally Posted by
lucky9876coins
Coach awards aren't the best value for burning miles. The best value would be an international premium cabin award. For 105,000 miles you can get a business class ticket to Europe which would otherwise cost you $5,000. Not that you would value it at $5,000, but most of us value premium international cabins at some kind of a premium. In general I'd say 1.5 cents per mile is a more reasonable value for miles.
Ok I understand the part about the biz class having more value/mile. But for myself, I don't care about traveling on business or first class--- all I care about is getting as many trips as possible for my miles. Any recommendations on how I can do this?
AND- in view of the fact that I won't be travelling business/first class, how worthwhile is this promotion for people like me?
Originally Posted by
friedice
Well, I redeemed a 65,000 saver coach award to Asia on United and *A partners, which included one stopover and one "ministopover" (less than 24hrs), which in real money priced out to $2350, and I wasn't able to find anything cheaper. So it did come to about 3cents/mile. Since Continental is joining *A, hypothetically I would be able to book the same exact award. Based on that redemption, these 25,000 can be valued at $750, but of course the valuation varies from award to award.
Your example is a bit confusing. Did you get the other 40,000 miles from the promotion too? Is the value you calculated a result of the added stopover? Are you saying that I can get 3cents/mile for regular coach trips too (return trip, no stopovers)
I'm just looking to squeeze as many trips into miles as possible- and that is how I would calculate the value/cost of the promotion. (If I can fly twice to Europe for the same miles as one business trip, then I'd rather fly twice. I'm thinking quantity, not "quality"
) Any thoughts when you look at it from this point of view?