Originally Posted by
SFO777
Keep clicking on more miles. You will see the cost for incremental miles drop significantly. If buy 20K or more miles, incremental miles at the upper end drop to less than 1 cpm. Buying 20-30-40K more miles you will see the net drop to around 1.3 cpm.
1.3 cpm? So buying 33K miles today for $990 for a total of 66K at 1.5 cpm was not the best plan?
Maybe I am doing this all wrong. After I discovered the miles + cash with LM I gave up on flying for elite status because I can just book my own F tix with 40% + cash.. essentially a deep discounted F tix. So I've been hoarding miles to make sure I have bountiful amounts of those 40% miles.
If someone doesn't even have 40% of the miles, can he attempt to book an award and just buy the miles at the end of the transaction? At 1.3 cpm this seems like a cheaper option. Like just have 2000 miles in the account, attempt to book an award where I need 42,000 miles, buy 40,000 for 1.3 cpm, and pay cash for the rest.
Before buying miles today I had 60,799 that cost 0.48 cpm to earn and adding 66K brought the totals to 126,799 at 1.01 cpm.