Originally Posted by
Chapel Hill Guy
And because of this sale I might actually, for the first time...gasp!...buy the accelerator miles for a trip this month to NRT. $553 for 27,636 miles. It would cost me a fair amount more than $553 for two transcons that would yield fewer RDMs (but would get me EQMs of course).
Am I nuts to consider this?
Yes, nuts if you have a large number of miles in your account that gets bigger and bigger each year. You are saving your miles for the distant future, when they will inevitably be worth less than they are now. Miles do not pay interest, unlike your money, and are subject to inflation, like every other currency.
On the other hand,
IF:
- You use all the miles you earn soon after you earn them.
- You get a value far greater than 2 cents each from them on a regular basis.
( A business class award ticket to Europe is not worth $7000
to you just because that is the price the airline wanted.
It is worth the most you would have paid for the ticket if spending money rather than miles, probably between
$1000 and $4000 depending on how much business class is really worth to you. Determine the real value to you of that miles redemption, divide by number of miles you have been using to redeem that ticket, and you have the actual value of your miles to you.)
Then you would be a fool to not take advantage of adding UA Accelerator miles to your account.
Originally Posted by
SteveDCA
When persented with Award Accelerator option are the total # of miles offered in addition to the Elite bonus of 1,000 miles I would earn, or does the offer include those miles?
If you are asked if you want
A number of miles by award accelerator,
A miles are in addition to all the miles you would get without award accelerator.