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Old Feb 27, 2003 | 1:21 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by RichardMEL:

Of course the other way to "value" it is use the generally accepted "value" of a mile.. What is it US $0.002 or something?? Therefore your 100k mileage award would "cost" around $200. Of course, I could be way off base with that though.

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Well I am a 'buyer' of all you have at $200 for 100,000 miles.

Most of those here who assign a 'value' to miles seem to have it at least ten times higher than $0.002. Two or threee cents a mile is what many seem to figure their miles are "worth" ball park.

AFAIK the airlines SELL miles to their partners - credit cards/rental cars/hotels etc at above the $US0.02 level actually.
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