Originally Posted by dylanks

I paid closer to £1.4 per point, because I booked it on fairly short notice ( < 3 weeks ), and wanted to end up in Phoenix so I wouldn't have to wait until the next morning to return home. If I had returned to San Diego, I could have been at £1.2/point, but then would have required an additional flight back to PHX.

At the time of the flight, my very patient wife was 8 months pregnant, and I'm not traveling until April when my year ends, so I wanted to get over 1500 quickly!