When people first started testing out the multi-city functionality and
saw award ticket prices that were higher than expected, many assumed this was glitch with the new award booking engine.
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price in miles and cash.
Someone spending 18 cents a mile on
tickets with Delta is spending 50 % more than needed for status, while earning FEWER redeemable miles this year, and while
seeing award prices go up.
The fuel surcharges you
see in the
price of a cash
ticket will match the fuel surcharges you have to pay on your British Airways
award (even if you're not searching British Airways flights).
As you
saw with the example, it's complicated because while a cash
ticket (including those booked through the Ultimate Rewards portal) has all taxes and fees included in the
price, an
award ticket also is charged taxes and fees ($ 5.60 in the case of a domestic US
ticket).
You can
see on there that this
award ticket should cost a general MileagePlus member under $ 6, but because of that close - in fee, it bumps it to half of the out - of - pocket fare
price!
In the coming months I believe we can expect to
see a dynamic
award chart that bases mileage cost of
award tickets on the
price of purchased
tickets.