Originally Posted by
bklgafly
... if a regular ticket is 1k and reward is 30k round with $200 fees/surcharges/tax/so on... Then I will calculate 700/30k to see value and not 1000/30k....
You can refine this by accounting for the miles you would have earned on a paid ticket. If you would have earned 3,000 miles you really redeemed 33,000 rather than 30,000.