Comments on: United Hawaii Mileage Sale – Save 20% http://beatofhawaii.com/united-hawaii-mileage-sale-save-20/ Hawaii Travel Deals, Tips, Culture and Analysis Wed, 23 May 2012 03:44:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Oliver http://beatofhawaii.com/united-hawaii-mileage-sale-save-20/comment-page-1/#comment-5319 Oliver Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:29:41 +0000 http://beatofhawaii.com/?p=10024#comment-5319 Well, the value of miles is never absolute and fixed on legacy carriers like UA (and that's a good thing). If you can accumulate enough miles to travel in internationally and you are actually interested in traveling internationally, you can get exceptionally high value out of miles. With domestic only travel it is more difficult. 32k miles to save +390+ isn't great, but I would have still bought two of my four seats as awards because those two travelers don't travel enough to benefit from the miles earned on the paid ticket. Alas, no awards available when I wanted to fly, and I really didn't want to cut short a vacation in paradise to save a few bucks. Keep up the good work, I really enjoy reading your insightful posts each day. Well, the value of miles is never absolute and fixed on legacy carriers like UA (and that’s a good thing). If you can accumulate enough miles to travel in internationally and you are actually interested in traveling internationally, you can get exceptionally high value out of miles. With domestic only travel it is more difficult. 32k miles to save +390+ isn’t great, but I would have still bought two of my four seats as awards because those two travelers don’t travel enough to benefit from the miles earned on the paid ticket.

Alas, no awards available when I wanted to fly, and I really didn’t
want to cut short a vacation in paradise to save a few bucks.

Keep up the good work, I really enjoy reading your insightful posts each day.

]]> By: Jeff http://beatofhawaii.com/united-hawaii-mileage-sale-save-20/comment-page-1/#comment-5318 Jeff Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:16:18 +0000 http://beatofhawaii.com/?p=10024#comment-5318 Hi Oliver, Thanks for commenting. If you have premium status it increases the perceived value of miles. Perhaps I should have clarified that. Aloha, Jeff Hi Oliver,

Thanks for commenting. If you have premium status it increases the perceived value of miles. Perhaps I should have clarified that.

Aloha, Jeff

]]> By: Oliver http://beatofhawaii.com/united-hawaii-mileage-sale-save-20/comment-page-1/#comment-5317 Oliver Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:58:59 +0000 http://beatofhawaii.com/?p=10024#comment-5317 I booked four seats from SFO-HNL for early May the other day. Unfortunately there were no award seats available on the flights I wanted, but I was pretty happy with the $395 fare. I tend to value miles at greater than 1 cent since most of my redemptions are for premium cabin awards. I booked four seats from SFO-HNL for early May the other day. Unfortunately there were no award seats available on the flights I wanted, but I was pretty happy with the $395 fare. I tend to value miles at greater than 1 cent since most of my redemptions are for premium cabin awards.

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