Originally Posted by
hindukid
C is where the real value is. It only cost 37,500 miles plus cash RT to Europe for C. So you can buy every year and redeem every other year, or have two members buying so that one person can fly. That is rather easy to do. Plus there is no extra charge for Lufthansa in C class.
There are at least 2 issues that one needs to think hard before going for this scheme:
1) you are working on the assumption that the mileage requirement would stay the same the following year. As we all know that, buying miles for hoarding sake is NOT the smart way to do because of the very real devaluation concern.
2) many folks do not want to split up to fly different days on same carriers if they can help it, let alone split up to fly different airlines. So that buying enough miles with multiple members so one member can fly - this idea may not "fly" with many people. No pun intended.