Originally Posted by
ajnaro
You might bear in mind that had you actually paid for the tickets, you would have received the mileage flown (with at least 25% bonus for business class, perhaps double miles based on status) as well as credit card mileage and status mileage. So there is some value lost when use mileage for tickets that should be taken into account.
No need to remind me. I said that, in the second line from the end of paragraph 2. The miles I would have earned on a paid ticket, referred to there, include miles for flying and miles for paying. Compared to 200,000 miles for the awards, this is a small number.