Originally Posted by AdamSouthFL

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.