Sentences with phrase «cents per mile»

At 2 cents per mile, 50,000 miles would be worth about $ 1,000.

I generally value them between 1.7 and 2 cents per mile.

To get the best return on the money invested, a future award ticket booked with those miles should cost more than two cents per mile.

This compares to a regular price of ~ 3.76 cents per mile.

That works out to $ 2,078.63 or an average of just over 2 cents per mile.

The normal price of $ 630 to transfer 40,000 miles that you already earned is being discounted to $ 450, or 1.125 cents per mile.

Both work out to 2.69 cents per mile.

Earning 13,434 miles from a $ 275 ticket equals about two cents per mile.

Even for non-elites, 28,020 miles is 4.9 cents per mile, a steal for business class!

A good rule of thumb for most U.S. airlines is 2 cents per mile.

That means that you'll essentially get a value of 1.5 cents per mile.

All - in, the final cost with a 100 % bonus is 1.88 cents per mile.

That's 2.11 cents per mile.

With taxes and fees it's more like $ 2,250, or 2.1 cents per mile.

American Airlines still awards 1 Elite Qualifying Mile (EQM) per mile flown regardless of the cabin you fly in or the cost of the ticket so, with a trip length of 19,938 miles I will earn 19,938 EQM at a cost of just 4.0 cents per mile.

If you want to give someone miles (that is, while keeping the miles you already have) then that will cost $ 1,053.50 for 40,000 miles, or 2.633 cents per mile.

I think the odds of that happening by a wide margin (perhaps under 1.8 cents per mile) are not very good.

The 50 % United bonus works itself out to 2.33 cents per mile, and the 40 % Alaska bonus works itself out to 2.11 cents per mile.

Find out how I'm going to be trying out the new aircraft while, at the same time earning nearly 20,000 elite qualifying miles at just 4.0 cents per mile.

Each mile earned works out to roughly 1.8 cents per mile when cashing them in for flights or other vacation packages.

You should be able to pretty easily get at least 2 cents per mile in value, even for an economy class redemption.

You will be charged $ 7.50 per 500 United miles (1.5 cents per mile) that you transfer.

This brings the cost to 2.1 cents per mile.

$ 4,786.88 will net you 270,000 AAdvantage miles after the bonus is factored in and brings the cost to 1.77 cents per mile.

Therefore, the value of your miles could vary from say, 0.8 cents per mile if it was a short flight selling for $ 200, or 3 cents per mile if it was a transcon $ 750 flight.

But, if you were to buy 126,000 miles, you'd still get a bonus of 70,000 miles (giving you a total of 196,000 miles) at a cost of $ 3,626.20 or 1.85 cents per mile.

(Answer: In this scenario, for most airlines, the answer is no, give our miles evaluation, since the 10,000 miles would cost 2 cents per mile.)

All said and done you can buy 50,000 Choice Privileges points for $ 385 and exchange those for 32,500 United MileagePlus miles, and a final cost of 1.18 cents per mile.

You're not going to be able to buy enough United Miles to book a Business Class award to Europe or Asia but you'll certainly be able to top up your account very nicely... and at a maximum cost of 1.3 cents per mile you'll be topping up your account at a very good rate indeed.

Marriott Rewards points are worth maybe 0.7 cents each, so $ 7 in points gets me 357 miles — just under 2 cents per mile.

In October I wrote about the basic value of points in terms of cents per mile.

There is definitely still value to be had out of the AAdvantage program but it's easy to be drawn in by headline figures like «1.8 cents per mile» and end up overpaying for an award.

That brings the cost down to 1.35 cents per mile for any size purchase.

The cash price of this ticket is $ 971, which gives you a value of almost 4 cents per mile.

However, they charge 3 cents per mile plus tax, so it is not the best deal.

If you were to purchase 149,000 miles you would get a bonus of 70,000 miles and end up with 229,000 miles at a cost of $ 4,282.65 or 1.87 cents per mile.

Calculate the redemption value in terms of cents per mile by dividing the cash price of the ticket by the number of miles required for an award.

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When you're making redemptions for long - distance rewards, the cents per mile equation can show you where some of the best values lie.

And even with the standard award at double cost, our redemption valuation is still roughly 2 cents per mile.

Well, I think Starpoints are worth about 2.5 cents each, so $ 25 in points gets me 1,250 miles — a «cost» of 2 cents per mile.

At a value of 1.5 cents per mile, you'll receive $ 300 in travel value after making your first purchase.

The math on last month's promotion meant that United was effectively selling miles at a cost of 2.15 cents per mile and, if I though that was bad (which I did!)

If you were targeted for the full 50 % bonus the math looks even sweeter — you could buy 75,000 Choice Points for $ 550 and those points would convert to 48,750 United Miles — that is a effective cost of ~ 1.13 cents per mile.

I personally value United miles between 1.7 and 2 cents per mile.

That's just a touch under 1.25 cents per mile.

which would mean purchasing AAdvantage Miles at over 2.7 cents per mile — which is almost certainly not worth it.

Therefore, the redemption value of miles for this flight would range from 4.2 to 5.7 cents per mile.

For charitable deduction purposes, each mile is valued at 3 cents per mile.

That reservation might have cost $ 1,000, resulting in a mere 1.67 cents per mile used.