Originally Posted by
ethernal
You are just wrong.. I don't know how else to say it. It is well known that International J redemptions have greater value than domestic Y. Even international Y has greater redemption value than domestic Y on average.
I flew United business this May from SFO to Madrid, returning from Marrakech, for 150K miles. The two legs between SFO and Zurich alone sold for $10K USD. That's nearly 7 cents/mile. These award tickets are trivial to find.
Try as I may, I can't do better than 2 cents/mile, looking for business awards from Delta SFO to Europe next May. That's better than the 1.2 cents/mile I was seeing from JFK, when I searched before. That's still nothing like what United has on offer.