Originally Posted by tornado
I think that the gentleman is trying to say that for the money (1/2 of a $250ish ticket) see his statement:
the equivalent would be the NRT, HKG, or LHR runs one way. For $250ish he would get twice the miles of the original run and therefore is comparing it apples to apples by slicing the fare in half.
I live on the west coast where we often get sweet deals to Europe. With bonuses it often comes out to be >~.02/mile. my AMS run was about .018/m, fyi.
I paid $385, all in, from SAN.