Originally Posted by sdsearch

Doesn't UR transfer 1:1 to United?

So when I booked a business class round trip to Alesund Norway from LAX with 140k UA miles (originally reserved as AC via Toronto both ways across the pond, but a day out I was able to change the outbound to an LH nonstop to FRA), when I was considering a $3000ish LH premium economy ticket as an alternate backup in case I couldn't get it with miles, how is that not worth at least 2+ cents?

(Now, I didn't transfer UR to UA, I already had more than enough UA miles. But if UR:UA is 1:1, what's the difference whether I had actually transferred or not?)

I generally don't use miles for economy flights, so I doubt I see cpp worse than that on my typical redemptions. Though the cpp is harder to calculate for most of my travels where if I couldn't get a business class redemption with miles, I simply wouldn't go on that trip at that time (because I can't afford to pay cash prices for most of the business class trips that I fly). So how exactly do you value "priceless" in cpp?