Using United miles from DC to Atlanta

[Anonymous]

I’ve been collecting United miles but this is my first time using them. Need to go to Atlanta from the DC area. Leave on a Wednesday evening, return on a Sunday evening. Economy.

What would be considered a good deal for using miles? So far it quoted me about 70,000 for 2 people plus $20. I have zero sense of this being good or terrible. I have about 300,000 miles total.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been collecting United miles but this is my first time using them. Need to go to Atlanta from the DC area. Leave on a Wednesday evening, return on a Sunday evening. Economy.

What would be considered a good deal for using miles? So far it quoted me about 70,000 for 2 people plus $20. I have zero sense of this being good or terrible. I have about 300,000 miles total.

That roughly translates to about $700-$800 combined for the two tickets. Not cheap. United miles suck.

[Anonymous]

You could go to Hawaii for 300,000 miles. Just saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been collecting United miles but this is my first time using them. Need to go to Atlanta from the DC area. Leave on a Wednesday evening, return on a Sunday evening. Economy.

What would be considered a good deal for using miles? So far it quoted me about 70,000 for 2 people plus $20. I have zero sense of this being good or terrible. I have about 300,000 miles total.

That roughly translates to about $700-$800 combined for the two tickets. Not cheap. United miles suck.

Yeah that's about right. If this is a holiday weekend that's a pretty normal price.

[Anonymous]

It came to $900 not using points. So should I use the points for this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It came to $900 not using points. So should I use the points for this?

It's not the absolute best use of them, but if you don't have another upcoming use, I'd rather keep $900 in my account than not. Points bookings on United are also fully refundable, so you could rebook later if the miles price drops.

[Anonymous]

$450 is more than usual to fly RT to Atlanta so I’d use the miles. 35K miles RT per ticket is not that bad and you have a ton of miles.

[Anonymous]

There aren't that many deals anymore - ofen the miles translate directly to the $. Yours isn't bad it is 70k miles for $900

[Anonymous]

I’d use the points. It feels like redemption values keep climbing so they’ll never be worth as much as they are right now

[Anonymous]

The "saver" award price is 15k mles each way so 30k/ticket = 60k for 2. THat's the lowest miles cost you'll find on that route (IAD-ATL) for United.

That same flight about $400-ish round trip in economy.

Also try Delta (if you're using card miles that are transferrable) as it's their hub and they run a lot more flights. United has 4 a day but Delta has a lot more, espcially across BWI/DCA/IAD.