Originally Posted by
LaserSailor
because there's a floor to how low their values can go (about 1 penny/mile for domestic UA flights).
that’s analogous to keeping play8mg the casino because your odds have to change in your favour, eventually. No such floor exists.
I don’t know who you are quoting here, and the analogy makes no sense to me.
But as WineCountryUA pointed out in the parallel thread,
Originally Posted by
WineCountryUA
So if you have a UA credit card, you can guaranteed get 1 cpm today. Is that subject to change? Of course. Is it likely? I doubt it. 1 cpm redemptions are an “industry standard” that are probably profitable enough for the airlines/banks to stick around for a while.
Now, if you have no UA credit card or can’t get one, you don’t have a 1 cpm floor. But personally, even a 1 cpm valuation is so unattractive to me that I wouldn’t care - I would certainly not work to earn any miles beyond what UA might throw into my account for occasional (now more rare as less rewarding) flights. Just like 200k miles = 400k miles = 1 billion miles when it comes to award costs for J seats to Europe for me, 0.5 cents = 1 cent when it comes to attractiveness of miles earnings.