Don't Buy Extra United Airlines Miles. Here's Why
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Find out why you don't want to buy United Airlines miles due to the dollar value of the points being deflated at flight checkout as well as when purchasing MileagePlus miles directly.
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buy miles for international flights. Chicago to Bangkok one way cash is $3835. on miles same route/time 42 k miles. 42k miles cost $722
Thank you for keeping $ in my pocket and preventing me from making a costly mistake. God bless you!
Glad you shined some light on this. I wanted to buy some miles for a trip but said, let me see if some has talked about the cons of doing so and look what i found. Thanks!!!
Happy to have helped save you!
Tony, you are super awesome! Sending you lots of blessings to your health and overall wellbeing! I even got the Andy Cantu Lux travel hacks but found it a bit confusing after the whole course, which I can share with you. Your simple math and explanation are wonderful! Thank you for what you do!
This was extremely eye opening! Thank you for making this video.
You're so welcome!
Sometimes this could be bad advice for your same scenario: if and only if you fly very infrequently with United (less than 1x per year or so; same logic applies to whatever airline), it may well be worth 'buying' miles at checkout. And that's because the value comp. is that you either get nothing for that balance of miles you have OR you get something AND that total out-of-pocket cost is lower for the same flight. Since the value of miles is nearly always depreciating, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, using miles in a timely fashion is important even if for most airlines miles no longer expire. And this doesn't consider the price per mile of more premium seats.
I am very glad to find your video before I purchased any miles. However, is it better to buy miles for international flights? Let me know if you have suggestions, please.
This really helped me because I am planning a trip to El Salvador on April 2024.
Omg! Thank you so much for this! You explained it so clearly and it was just what I needed to know as I was checking with my flight! Lol :)
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thank you!😘
Is it really 15,000 miles to fly from San Fran to Chicago? I Googled it and it says 2,129. Is a mile not really a mile-mile, but some other kind of mile?
I don’t think this applies the same way to first class/business
Thank you. All I need it.
What about now that miles are buy miles get 100% free?? I did do the math btw.
Very hepful video. Keep them coming.
Thanks, will do 🙏
Do you know how to calculate PQPs from flying on United’s partner airlines?
What about the special incentives they send to mileage plus customers? Such as buying monthly or like discounted miles. Is it still not worth it?
My gut says probably not, but honestly I'm not familiar with these promotions. Do you have anything such as a link to share with details of the offers?
Not always bad to buy miles. In my case buying miles is cheap than buying with cash. See breakdown below
Flight to cancun - $658 or 46,400miles
Tax - $91.81
My miles - 44,760miles (assuming each mile is worth $0.01)
Extra Miles needed w/ price - 1,640miles @ $79.55
Miles + tax + extra miles = 44,760 miles ($447.60) + $91.81 + $79.55 = $618.96
Thanks fantastic!
@@ThriftyTony that is where the problem is depends on how you earn 44760 miles. If you purchased them using discount still it costs you $0.03 and not $0.01
Informative.
Thanks Mohamed
ridiculous edge-case scenario. there are numerous cases I can show how buying miles and booking Premium Cabin on United makes total sense.
Oh yes, I did only consider economy
Excellent
Thank you! Cheers!
United is currently offering 175,000 miles for 3062.50 or 1.75 cents per mile. Is that still too expensive? Or is it a good deal? Thank you
Not a good deal. The value of a mile is closer to a cent
I didn't have enough miles to purchase a one way airfare. It cost $300. It was going to cost me over $300 to get the miles I needed to complete to get my free trip.. ummm no. I paid for the trip myself and not purchase any miles
ew, do you really fly economy?