Originally Posted by
flyertalkrocks
...At the time, united.com said the tickets would have cost over $20K each.
MSRP is seldom the most useful way to measure value.
1. Are those the tickets you would have purchased with money if you had not held sufficient UA miles, or would you have purchased less expensive seats, perhaps in another cabin, perhaps on another airline, perhaps on a slightly different date?
2. What was the opportunity cost of that redemption? For example how many Saver LON-SFO one-way business class flights could you obtain for 295,000 miles?