Originally Posted by
duranza
I just reached $60 worth of reward points and am looking at the $50 level and can't figure out which is worth more among the airline miles .
Can anyone chime in for input?
for $50 I can get one of these:
1 A+ point ( I presently have 16 that I haven't converted to SW yet)
1,000 Rapid Rewards ( have about 680 points)
1,000 Mileage Plus ( presently have 22K but using my Chase and Freedom card for more miles
1,000 US Air ( presently have 11K and have canceled card earlier this year)
1,000 True Blue ( jet blue have 22K+ points still have card )
Originally Posted by
duranza
I don't have Avios.
Only flight goal is 2- one way flights from Roc to Mia or FLL in December,
I have enough in both Jet Blue and probably Rapid Rewards once I transfer A+ and will have enough in United after this month's statement.
Looking to see which one is worth more if for example I had to purchase points.. which is more costly.
ETA: ok I figured it out.. went to each site and looked at how much each 1,000 would cost.
1 A+ credit = $39
SW 2kpts =$55 = 1k=$27.50
United 2k miles= $75.25 (1k=#37.63 ish)
USair 1k miles=$35
Personally, I wouldn't look at the cost of buying miles to determine "value" unless you think you are going to be only 1000 miles or one credit short.
I'm not very familiar with redeeming miles/points on Southwest, Jetblue, or Airtran, but think that between UA and US, UA would be a better choice for you since 1) you are looking to book two one-way flights (USAirways Dividend Miles program does not allow one way redemptions) and 2) you can collect/transfer UR points to UA but don't seem to have a way to build up miles on US now. Of course, longer term, if you have AA miles, they will be combinable with US miles in the future.