Originally Posted by DealAddict

It's only worth $378 assuming you can get a flight for $700 taxes in. It can be worth $500 or more depending on what time of year you fly (flight prices are higher at peak times). Air Canada flight prices for YOW-LHR are at around $1400 right now. Air Transat is at around $ 800 out of Montreal, not Ottawa. So it's worth more than $500 if I want to fly at a time when prices are higher than $700-800. Obviously whether 60,000 points is worth redeeming for economu depends on how much the flights are at the time you want to fly

Not really better if we are talking about putting that $500 towards an economy flight and you want to fly when prices are higher. if you want to book with AC at peak times when prices are over $1000 (for YOW at least) then Your 60,000 points are worth more than $500