Originally Posted by
hanover.john
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)
Other miles I got from a credit card signup and purchases and other promos. But that was for United. I was just comparing United redemptions to future possible Continental ones given the fact that both are going to be part of the same alliance and have similar award structures. And yes, it was a result of the added stopovers. If U do a simple roundtrip, it might be possible to get 3cents/mile, but I can't be sure. Those places will probably have to be hard to get to or not very popular places. More realistically though it would be 1.5-2 cents/mile on a simple roundtrip.