Originally Posted by
7gui7
Does that mean you won/accumulated 15k miles for flying those trips? Or that you "used up" 15k miles to get the flights just for $200.
Yeah, I'm not willing to spend much money for status/business upgrades, but if it's possible without spending major $ it'd be nice.
Can you give me a rough idea of how many miles are required to get an upgrade, and how many you'd get e.g. on a US->Europe trip? I know it varies a lot between airlines and such, but I'm just trying to get an idea of the orders of magnitude involved here!
I mean I flew 15000 miles on award tickets which cost me around 70K frequent flyer miles and $200 rather than the ~$2000 it would have cost to buy the tickets. I'm cheap. Upgrades cost miles or money and reduce my future travel budget, so I pay little attention to them.