Originally Posted by
Boraxo
Are there actually people who pay $4200 or $6300 to buy additional miles? Seems like you could simply apply that money to F seats and have change left over. The perks are nice but many are attainable via lower/mid level elite status and/or Chase UA cards.
I've thought about it this year for the first time, hence my click on this thread. I might end the year with well over $15k PQD but 55-70k PQM, with all of that travel in F or J. The difference between J and Y on the 4 leg intl trip I just bought was about $6k RT, so the accelerator miles would pay for themselves in GPUs.
Right now, I'm offered 45k RDM+PQM for 11cpm:
