<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by chemist661:
It takes 90K on UA for a biz ticket to Oz & 120K for a F ticket.
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They are THE best "value" awards - IMO - available to MP fliers based in USA.
Especially seeing they apply from *Anywhere* USA as well. For an East coast resident they really are an unbeatable award.
I have posted before on the UA board I would not be surprised to see these increase 100% given the rampant award devaluation that is going on. For example Qantas has just dramatically upped (from January) the miles needed just to UPGRADE ONLY to and from LAX-SYD to 140,000 miles.
BA awards in F to OZ went up about 300% etc.
The UA award lets you have MEL as end destination with stopover in SYD.