End of the day, United is requiring a minimum spend of 12
cents per mile flown in order to earn elite status, and their average fare is higher than 12 cents.
You may have seen travel bloggers suggest a «breakeven» point of 20
cents per mile flown: those who spend more than 20 cents per mile will earn more miles under the new system, while everyone else will earn fewer.
We know that the cost of traveling from Anchorage to Tampa cost me about 9.2
cents per mile I fly ($ 700 / 7,640 = 0.0916).
Not exact matches
The hybrid electric jet will seat up to 12 people,
fly up to 700
miles and have operating costs of 8
cents per seat
mile, below the operating costs of small turboprops and business jets powered by jet fuel.
Analyst Jamie Baker also cited pending cost increases, estimating a 55
cent effect on earnings
per share and 5 percentage - point boost in costs for each seat
flown a
mile next year from expected new employee contracts.
Spending the
miles for this specific flight offers a value of 5.42
cents per Skymile, which really is incredible value for Delta Skymiles if you're set on
flying the A350's inaugural in the Delta One cabin.
If you
flew to Paris in mid-September, a one - stop flight from Austin would start at about $ 900 and your
miles would have been worth about 1.5
cents per miles.
For example, suppose hypothetically that five years ago,
flying 50,000
miles would have cost me $ 5,000 (10
cents per mile), and now, if there's say, 20 % inflation since five years ago, it costs me $ 6,000 (12
cents per mile).
When you click on a particular deal you're interested in, you'll see a description of the two city pairs, availability dates, the total
miles flown, and what the
cents per mile breakdown is.
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.
I recently booked a flight from IAH to Tromsø
flying business class on Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and only paid $ 12 in fees for the one way flight and used 55,000 Aeroplan
miles and got a whopping 14
cents per mile on that redemption!
As you'll need 100,000 reward points and there is $ 45 in fees, the conversion rate is 1.85
cents per mile if you were
flying into the John Wayne Airport, and 1.55
cents per mile if you were
flying into Long Beach or Los Angeles.
And
flying long - haul, business class flights can get you an incredible 3.39
cents per mile or more.
For example, it makes sense to get a
Flying Blue award for 50,000
miles round trip from New - York to Paris when a refundable fare can be upwards of $ 3,700 round trip (that's 7.0
cents per mile if you would actually have paid for that refundable ticket).
For instance, 25,000
miles to
fly domestically on a flight that's ticketing for $ 526 is a great deal (2.1
cents per mile), while 60,000
miles to
fly to Europe when flights are ticketing at $ 413 which is, admittedly, pretty hard to find these days is not (6.8
cents per mile).
After all, when I can use 4500 Avios to
fly from CVG - JFK in lieu of paying $ 200 - $ 300 (5 - 6
cents per mile value), that seems unsustainable.
But those who aren't flexible, plan ahead, and don't
fly to expensive destinations will generally find better value in cash for travel options, which avoid airline prices which can result in 1
cent or less
per mile in value.
Fares are as low as around $ 5550 each way, and since a one way first class award between Abu Dhabi and Sydney is 60,000 AAdvantage
miles with ~ $ 80 in taxes and phone booking fee, that's over 9
cents per mile in nominal value — a great value redemption if you're looking to
fly first class between Australia and the Middle East.
Alaska recently upped their
Fly & Buy price to 2
cents per mile, so I'll use that, while I think Avios are worth closer to 1.5
cents each.