This will generally be
a poor award value.
Not exact matches
NHS consultants are offering
poor value for money, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found, with pay
awards not matched by improved patient care.
Other than Wyndham Auctions, most of these
awards are
poor value for travelers.
Also, if you're trying to make a premium cabin booking for a route that's not considered a «sweet - spot» on an
award chart, you might be getting a
poor return in
value for your points.
If you get
poor value by redeeming Avios for Economy class
awards under these promotional conditions just how bad is the
value when the promotion isn't running?
A Dallas to London Economy Class
award may indeed be
poor value to one traveler....
In this post I take a look at why some think that Economy
Awards are
poor value and why their opinion doesn't really matter.
(
Award nights start at 20,000 points; the hotel may be nice, but if you can pay $ 199, then that's a
poor redemption
value.)
However, the prices are generally not much less than
award tickets, so in most cases, this is a
poor value.
A category 4 property costs 10,000 points for an
award night so, if you were to buy points at 2.275 cents each, that
award night would essentially cost approximately $ 228 — some may think that's ok but I don't consider that to be good
value at all and the higher up the
award chart you go the same
poor value you'll get.
The April Avios devaluation made Business Class
awards decidedly
poor value but, without huge surcharges, there is definitely
value to be had out of the Economy Class redemptions.
The biggest limitations are the too - short time window to make
award redemptions, the limited number of hotels outside the US and the
poor redemption
value during my nine months of trying this out!
But it's not nearly enough to just allocate them some kind of uniform valuation, as some miles may be very valuable for a given type of redemption (e.g. Avios for short - haul economy
awards) and quite a
poor value for other types of redemptions (for Avios, ultra long - haul in a premium cabin with high mileage cost and often high fuel surcharges).
Instead British Airways is collecting fuel surcharges on almost all
awards, making those
awards very
poor values.
-LSB-...] Etihad miles offer
poor value redeeming on their own flights, there are some great deals using Etihad miles to book partner
awards.