Originally Posted by
Dwayne Carter
Hi. Thanks for responding.
I guess my fear is the value of the purchased Miles vs. the Cash + Miles. Right now, I have 80,000 miles. I need about 170,000 miles total for my wife and
,
to travel with 2 Business class tickets from Milan to NYC. I would need to purchase about 90,000 (if this was a reward ticket).
When I go through the booking process, I get a $ 380 reduction in my tickets, if I apply the 80,000 points/miles. Using that logic, I will spend $ 2,700 for those miles.
If I only get another $ 400 reduction in my ticket price...then I guess I will not be worth buying a additional miles then, correct?
Dwayne
Generally speaking, buying miles is expensive and only done when you need a relatively small amount to get enough for an upgrade or award. PLUS: cash + miles is one of the worst uses of miles, only recommended if you need to use the miles before they expire (sometimes you get a ‘special cash + miles offer’ in which case it is not that bad). It seems very very unlikely to me that the combination of buying miles plus cash + miles would ever be attractive but I have never actually done the sums.