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Oct 9, 2020 | 3:07 pm

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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist

Isn't the big issue the conversion rate? For example, would people use vouchers to buy miles at the normal price for SkyPesos? Or would some other valuation apply?

One ticket I canceled had used miles to upgrade, and I was issued a voucher for the combined cash+mileage, with miles valued at 1 cent each. (This was also how the miles were valued at upgrade time, modulo some taxes.) The "fair" conversion rate in the other direction would be 1:1 as well (so a $100 voucher = 10000 miles), though who knows if that's what they'd actually do.

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Originally Posted by DLASflyer

I would much rather buy tickets with credits and earn miles than convert to miles and earn no more miles.

Agreed in general, but miles don't expire, so if you're not going to travel again for a while miles are a "better" storage instrument than expired vouchers.

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