Originally Posted by
SFO777
+1
Last week, I bought 2 DEN-YUL J class tickets on AC. Each OW ticket cost me 10,000 miles and $219 (for 15,000 miles, taxes and fees).
Compared to AC's $650 OW Y fare and their $2,200 OW J fare. Yeah, I'm sure they sell a lot of those.
That's my kind of game.
Lifemiles is my way to limit the maximum payable amount for just about any North American trip of mine where I have a few hours flexibility and reimbursement isn't a concern. Paying $500+ for roundtrip economy class ticket for US/Canada travel is easily avoided by way of this. For the cost of some regular paid economy class tickets, lifemiles delivers me in business class even at lower prices than some of the cheapest regular economy class fares at the time of booking. This program has worked to my material advantage in a big way.