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Originally Posted by NYBanker

If I can "buy" miles for less than $0.04 per (through whatever promotions might be going on at a given time), and those miles are on a carrier where I (a) have a lot of miles, (b) anticipate accruing a lot of miles or (c) can transfer other Amex points to, I'll usually hit the offer.

You might be interested to know that until the end of this month you could "buy" a very large quantity of CX Asia Miles for about 1.4 cents/mile. They aren't a good deal for some destinations - but it sounds like you value JFK-Europe RTs in J. This is only 60K Asia Miles (on BA, AA, or Swiss). If you don't know about this - see the thread about cheap miles in the AA forum. Buy cheap priceline hotels for $20-$22 each - $30 with fees - using the 1500 per booking Ebay Anything Points link. Then transfer your Anything points via point.com before the end of this month. Priceline Anything Points take about 48 hours to show up. Works out ot 1.3-1.4 cents per mile. A couple hours doing this could net you a LOT of miles.

In the past 14 years, I have paid for 1/2 of one ticket. I believe that was around $0.02 / mile. Other that that, I have paid nothing for many tickets. However, it is a different story for my company and companies that schedule my services. The following is a breakdown of ff mile $$$.

1997 - $0.41
1998 - $0.398
1999 - $0.612
2000 - $0.424
2001 - $0.438
2002 - $0.402
2003 - $0.26
2004 - $0.256 (so far this year)

What a difference it is when one pays for their own tickets and when someone else does.