Originally Posted by
UA-NYC
If one wants to spend excess thousands of dollars every time there is a points/miles sale, that is their prerogative.
Me, I like to finance my personal global travels from both my work travel/spend as well as any personal spend I have. And that means earning points/miles in the natural sense, not spending thousands of miles just to buy them.
1) You can only purchase this amount AA miles this way on an annual basis. For someone with significant AA travel regularly and who really values miles, paying $4,311 annually for AA miles seems like a straightforward way to get miles, especially now
2) I was just questioning the concept that 75,000 AA miles should be valued at $4,000 to $5,000 (the standard one-way cost for a flight to Asia). Unless you are ready, willing and able to spend that in cash regularly for such flights, that’s not the real value. You should probably value those miles at whatever cost you regularly buy business class flights for in cash.