That award was worth WHAT???
Aug 8, 2011 | 9:26 pm
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 102
That award was worth WHAT???
I'm feeling inspired after watching the new NBC show "that's worth what?"
So i thought it would be fun to have thread listing how much your award ticket was worth if you had paid for a full price ticket with real $$$.
Who's first?
So i thought it would be fun to have thread listing how much your award ticket was worth if you had paid for a full price ticket with real $$$.
Who's first?
Aug 8, 2011 | 10:31 pm
#4
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Washington D.C. via Sao Paulo via Houston via Washington D.C. via Boston via New York
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checking to fly to KUL from IAH in November, awards for coach are 70k r/t however I can purchase the flight IF I wanted to for close to 21k 
Aug 9, 2011 | 4:44 am
#7
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: SEA
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My record is $45K for an F award and $8K for a Y award. The value of the F award may be skewed because I couldn't price all segments on 1 ticket and had to use one-ways for some of the segments.
Aug 9, 2011 | 4:53 am
#8
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this is a valid ? only if you would have paid for the ticket if you couldn't get the award.....
i am paying $350 + 25k mi each way to sit in j....ignoring the mi, that's $35/hour for the seat on a ~10 hr flight....an exit row would be fine for the leg room, but i can't use the exit anymore....even so, i wouldn't spring for the j fare & it wouldn't break me....
grouch grouch, bah humbug!
good luck to all...
i am paying $350 + 25k mi each way to sit in j....ignoring the mi, that's $35/hour for the seat on a ~10 hr flight....an exit row would be fine for the leg room, but i can't use the exit anymore....even so, i wouldn't spring for the j fare & it wouldn't break me....
grouch grouch, bah humbug!
good luck to all...
Aug 9, 2011 | 5:15 am
#10
Join Date: Feb 2006
Programs: HH Silver, MR Plat Prem & LT Plat, Hyatt Plat,SPG Plat, Hertz PC, National EE, UA 1K
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$27K LH F/LX C JFK-ZRH-CDG (destination) -FRA (stopover) -BOS-LGA
Note:they were pricing in refundable only/full fares on the website.
Trip of a lifetime! ^
Note:they were pricing in refundable only/full fares on the website.
Trip of a lifetime! ^
Aug 9, 2011 | 5:23 am
#11
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: New Orleans, LA
Programs: DL PM, AA Gold, A3 Gold, WN CP, and lots of points everywhere.
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BA First from Atlanta to Mauritius, returing from Livingstone, Zambia (atl-lhr-jnb-mru/lvi-jnb-lhr-atl) in November-December this year.
225k*+companion+$2500.
*We booked first on the outbound, business on the return but there was a mistake and we ended up in first both ways. Should have been 270k.
Retail price the day I booked on the exact same flights was $38k ($19k/person). I kept a pdf to prove it.
Totally silly to do a cpm but this thread is silly.
valuing the companion cert at 225K and discounting by the taxes/fees, it values at 7.9cpm.
Really though, this is just a splurge for an experience. We'd buy economy (maybe world traveller plus) if it were cash.
225k*+companion+$2500.
*We booked first on the outbound, business on the return but there was a mistake and we ended up in first both ways. Should have been 270k.
Retail price the day I booked on the exact same flights was $38k ($19k/person). I kept a pdf to prove it.
Totally silly to do a cpm but this thread is silly.
valuing the companion cert at 225K and discounting by the taxes/fees, it values at 7.9cpm.
Really though, this is just a splurge for an experience. We'd buy economy (maybe world traveller plus) if it were cash.
Aug 9, 2011 | 6:39 am
#13
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: WAS
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Posts: 478
No, I would not have ever paid cash for this F trip, but I think this is fun to look at.
I used 145,000 miles and ~$165 in taxes for a nearly $20K trip in F:
IAD-FRA-ZRH-BKK-CDG-FRA-IAD with LH, LX, TG, and UA.
That was the price given when I forced the exact routing of the award tickect. Could get to BKK in F for quite a bit less, I'm sure.
I used 145,000 miles and ~$165 in taxes for a nearly $20K trip in F:
IAD-FRA-ZRH-BKK-CDG-FRA-IAD with LH, LX, TG, and UA.
That was the price given when I forced the exact routing of the award tickect. Could get to BKK in F for quite a bit less, I'm sure.
Aug 9, 2011 | 7:02 am
#14
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: KU via KOA
Programs: UA, AA, BA, DL, AS, Good food in distant places
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I used 55k AA miles & $55 for the airfare on this trip: MCI-ORD-STL-LAX-PPT (12 day cruise from PPT-HNL paid with Continental cc for 20k bonus miles)-HNL-DFW-MCI which would've priced at ~$3700/pp. I feel so weak with this contribution compared to BryanIAH & a couple of others, but Bora Bora was SOOOO worth it 
Aug 9, 2011 | 7:21 am
#15
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Used somewhere btw 250K and 300K miles to book BOS-DPS on CX F for myself and my wife. Tix would have cost $51,203 total. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have paid for them out of pocket. 
Mike
Mike