Originally Posted by
bwoodlandca
When the loyal customer then tries to use miles to upgrade, he is charged the economy seat price, plus 40k miles, then on top of that he is charged $1,100 to use those miles that he has earned. That is almost double the cost of the original economy seat.
Have you priced a businessfirst seat? They are often about five to eight times an economy seat. So pay $2300 and 40k miles for businessfirst or pay $5600 cash. I don't think that's too bad of a value proposition, but that's just me.