Originally Posted by ken7

This would be my first MR, and planning to go for EXP, though I've never had status with an airline. The numbers I've calculated work out as:

9 rdtrips, $1975 total, mainly ORD-SFO but also a couple ORD-LAX to break up the monotony.

99,684 EQM (2.01 cpm)
76,609 RDM (2.52 cpm)

my dilemma is this: I typically don't fly enough longhaul flights to make good use of the 8 eVIPs, and would probably end up trading most of them in the coupon connection for miles to bring down the ''cost'' of the MR. if that was the case, assuming they don't expire until Feb 2014, what can be expected as a typical fair price (in AA/SPG/UR, etc.) per SWU/eVIP? 25,000?