This shows how widely the value of United Airlines miles can fluctuate and just how valuable they can be. Plus, using your miles can save you a lot of cash. A scenario where using United miles may not make sense is when using another travel rewards currency offers a better value.
Using Turkish miles, non-stop one-way flights within mainland U. If you have a variety of different travel rewards currencies, be sure to compare redemption rates before booking. Having trouble deciding whether you should use United miles or pay with cash for your next flight? Check out our points vs. Points valuations are based on MMS calculation and not provided by the loyalty programs. Most award tickets will have cash cost, such as taxes and fuel. MMS will not share or sell your email.
See Privacy Policy. Get your results Fill out the inputs to get a payment recommendation. Normally, when we want to book award flights on United Airlines, we transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points. Not only do they transfer to United Airlines at a ratio, but they also transfer instantly, making it easy to quickly scoop up an award flight before it disappears.
The value of United miles varies depending on your itinerary — route, time of travel and class of service. Joseph Hostetler is a full-time writer for Million Mile Secrets, covering miles and points tips and tricks, as well as helpful travel-related news and deals. He has also authored and edited for The Points Guy. And we're proud of our content, opinions and analysis, and of our reader's comments. June 12, 2. Advertiser Disclosure We are an independent publisher. The value of your United Airlines miles can vary widely depending on how you use them.
Photo by Emily McNutt. Peak holiday travel Dec. How flexible are United miles? In a word: Very. How do United miles compare with other airlines? Mile value. How did we determine the value of United miles? Frequently asked questions How much are 10, United miles worth? How much are 25, United miles worth? How much are 50, United miles worth? How much are 80, United miles worth?
How much are , United miles worth? How to maximize your rewards. On a similar note Dive even deeper in Travel. Explore Travel. Get more smart money moves — straight to your inbox. Sign up. Fees for changes to award bookings have increased since we last wrote about the value of a mile, but remain competitive against those charged by other airlines. It is not easy to find a cheap revenue ticket with this level of flexibility.
We do this regularly, taking advantage of the typically good availability just under a year in advance to lock in a business or suites redemption. Granted it does mean doing some advance planning, and it requires a healthy miles balance. Realistically, you must compare the miles used against the Flexi fare when assessing the value, meaning that your miles in this case achieved 2.
Note that in Part 1 of this article, where we looked at the value of miles you can expect to achieve, comparison for Economy Class fares was all based on the cheapest non-refundable tickets. Generally you will get nothing back if you cancel these, or your plans change, unlike the award redemption, which is flexible. This is the really boring but quite important bit. In order to fairly assess the value of our redemptions, we had to honestly look at what our alternative would have been had those redemptions not been available.
That means assessing them against the best value, but still realistic full fare cash booking. The summary of the methodology, and the individual award value calculations, are shown in the following PDF document:. When we look at all 32 Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer redemptions against the best available alternative fare and then assume we took all of them at pre-March redemption rates, March to January redemption rates and current redemption rates, including applicable taxes in those respective periods, it shows the following:.
Notice how the small number of Economy Class redemptions we took were best value under the previous award chart. The value in First Class is in the experience, rather than the cost saving. So the value of a mile to us, assuming we made all these redemptions at current rates, is 2. If you use your miles only to redeem into Economy Class, be careful buying at anything over 1. If you generally use your miles to redeem into Business Class, you should not lose out buying at 2 cents per mile or less.
We can usually secure the redemptions we need, as we either book a long way in advance or travel during off-peak periods, but like anyone we cannot guarantee a redemption will be available, and sometimes we have to fall back on a cash ticket.
Would we still be getting value from our miles, assuming we had bought them all at 2 cents each? While it sounds a wild range, in some sense each can be defended well 7. In fact very few people seriously attempt to value a KrisFlyer mile, and kudos to them for doing so. The Points Guy is a little more pessimistic, attaching a 1. In Australia Point Hacks goes with a maximum earn threshold an upper limit to buy of 1. Here in Singapore MileLion is quoting 1. For one thing it made the maths easy!
Just saw your article. What about upgrading with miles eg buying a PE and upgrade to Business instead of getting a full Business redemption ticket as upgrade can be gotten easily on the spot while buying a full redemption ticket has to be waitlisted most of the time.
Upgrade will have miles awarded whereas a full redemption ticket has no miles awarded. So how does one accumulate so many KF miles to pay for flights?
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