You're essentially purchasing Avios for 1.1 - 1.3
cents per mile under this offer, so it can be an exceptional deal.
Not exact matches
For business - or first - class flights
under 1,000
miles, points averaged 0.72
cent in value; for flights over 1,000
miles, it was 1.13
cents per point.
GM estimates that the Volt will cost about two
cents per mile to drive while
under battery power compared to 12
cents per mile using gasoline priced at $ 3.60
per gallon.
If you conservatively value MileagePlus
miles at 1.8
cents each, that's 4.32
cents in value
per dollar of manufactured spend, making it one of the most valuable opportunities to manufacture such high volumes of spend, especially if you're able to also sign up
under one of the very valuable signup bonus offers I wrote about here (I'm no longer able to pull up those offers).
Head over to the FlyerTalk mileage runs forum nowadays and you'll see that runs that are
under 4
cents per mile are harder to come by.
To offset this fee, you will need to spend just
under $ 5,600
per year to cover the cost with each
mile valued at just
under 1.6
cents each.
For example, if Chase Freedom has drugstores as one of its quarterly bonus categories, you'd earn 5 points
per $ 1 spent and that would bring the cost
per point of a $ 500 Vanilla Reload down to just
under 16
cents a
mile.
And you can add to the
miles you'd earn from a credit card sign - up bonus with regular promotions to buy or share
miles at
under 2
cents per mile.
That's just a touch
under 1.25
cents per mile.
Marriott Rewards points are worth maybe 0.7
cents each, so $ 7 in points gets me 357
miles — just
under 2
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.
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.
Buyers can install it themselves or pay well
under $ 2,000 for installation by a Plug - In Supply dealer.The PbA10 (lead acid) Conversion System, which turns a standard 2004 - 2008 model year Prius into a Plug - in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) based on the CalCars Open Source design... has an all - electric range of 10 to 15
miles and improved average mileage of up to 100
miles per gallon (plus 1
cent /
mile of electricity).
Under the
cents -
per -
mile system, rewards for driving less are delivered automatically, without the need for administratively cumbersome and costly GPS technology.