So, if you have to cut your vacation short by a few days or accept an extra change of planes in order to reach your destination, you are getting less actual value from your reward ticket than the value of a restriction - free,
full cash ticket.
Not exact matches
Assuming a 60,000 point round - trip
ticket to Europe (worth about $ 1,200
cash), you are now able to get six
full round - trip
tickets to Europe, which is worth $ 7,200 at that price.
His Twitter account gave us a play - by - play as he tried to figure out what to do and others recommended a whole spectrum of solutions, including purchasing a
full - fare
ticket with
cash and then suing United in small claims court (which one person had successfully done).
Your chosen Virgin Trains East Coast eVoucher will entitle you to the
cash amount of Virgin Trains East Coast credit which can be used as either
full or part payment on Virgin Trains East Coast Advance
ticket transactions for travel on a Virgin Trains East Coast service only made on the new Virgin Trains East Coast website.
Like my favorite trick for when I don't quite have enough points with the Chase Ultimate Rewards, that allows you to take advantage of award
ticket pricing even when you don't have points,
cash plus points rates are great for those moments when a
full fare
ticket is way more than you're willing to pay.
Second, you get
full refundability on nonrefundable fare bucket pricing: Canceled points
tickets go right back into your points bank and are not locked to one passenger as a
cash purchase would be.
That's a bit tricky to do here because the only one - way
cash tickets I could find were
full - fare refundable, which are wildly inflated.