Originally Posted by
thegeneral
No matter how much the amenities add value and take away from the above, the value of those miles is ALWAYS what you would pay for that ticket if you didn't have the miles. The price of paying for the airline ticket you're buying might be $10k, but if you would only pay $500 over coach for that upgrade, then that's the value of the miles.
I completely disagree with this. I can easily afford coach tickets to anywhere on the planet. I can also afford business class tickets to almost anywhere on the planet. But an international F ticket is out of my price range. When I fly in international F, I'm receiving something that costs far, far more than I would ever pay. In a sense, it is "priceless," because I would
never pay what it costs.
That makes international F the best value by far, especially since it doesn't cost that much more than international C (which I might actually pay for)!