Buying Airline Miles - Non-Wakeboarding Discussion

(doublemwa) · (doublemwa) **Join Date: May 2016** 12-06-2016, 10:58 AM

Has anyone ever bought airline miles? Ive found a few deals for $17.00 a mile. I've heard of this and it seems to be a common practice.

I'm trying to figure out the value in buying the miles opposed to just buying the flights.

(stanfield) · (stanfield) **Join Date: Mar 2004** 12-06-2016, 11:15 AM

17 dollars a mile? I've got a couple hundred thousand I'll sell you.

(psudy) · (psudy) **Join Date: Dec 2003** 12-06-2016, 11:37 AM

lol. Really?

(denverd1)

Ummm. that's crazy. just buy the ticket or whatever you're trying to end up with

(fly135) · (fly135) **Join Date: Jun 2004** 12-06-2016, 12:32 PM

1.7 cents a mile sounds more reasonable.

(hyperlite) · (hyperlite) **Join Date: May 2009** 12-06-2016, 1:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stanfield

17 dollars a mile? I've got a couple hundred thousand I'll sell you.

I'll 2nd that. Ive got 300k ill sell you

(doublemwa) · (doublemwa) **Join Date: May 2016** 12-06-2016, 1:40 PM

Sorry, typo. $17 per 1000 miles.

$17 a mile and I would be on milage runs every week!

(dyost) · (dyost) **Join Date: Jan 2007** 12-06-2016, 5:46 PM

Don't do it, really not a good value. It's meant to be a way to top off you account if you're just shy of a miles booked flight or merchandise award. Say you have 24,000 miles and need 25,000 to cash in for a flight, essentially you get that flight for $17.

For instance, most airlines you can book a basic round trip for 25-30,000 miles, usually a $300-400 ticket. Or if you bought miles it would be $425 to $510. In the merchandise example usually a $100 value item is between 12-15k points. So if you bought miles for that purpose you'd essentially be paying $204 or more for a $100 item.