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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. DH has done some investigating and has an idea. Curious to people’s thoughts. My parents could cancel their current tickets and keep the $3K future flight credit. Then, DH can buy them two new round-trip business class tickets using FF miles. It will cost 744,000 FF miles for both at current prices. For reference, we spent about 320,000 for the four we already have, so they are way more expensive now, but still better than paying cash. Then, all 6 of us will be in Polaris business class both ways and all 6 of us can access the IAD Polaris Lounge before departure. In exchange, DH thinks we should ask my parents for $3K to help offset the FF costs since they’re still walking away with $3K in future flight credits that only my parents can use for themselves in the future.

I think my parents would go for this. They will have spent $6K total on airfare, $3K of which they can use in the future and the $3K they committed to spending on flights to ATH. The other alternative is to upgrade my parents current tix to business class using $8K cash (PlusPoints and miles upgrades are waitlist only and DH says they’ll never clear). The cash upgrade seems like a bad value vs. the FF miles option.[/quote]

I mean, the entire premise is an extraordinarily bad value. You’re going to use over a million FF miles for one stinkin round trip vacation, plus make the grandparents dump out an extra $3k, plus have United keep an already spent $3k in escrow for old people who don’t really want to fly in economy but also don’t want to pay what it costs to fly in first class? The good value solution (that I know you don’t want to consider) is to refund the 4 first class miles tickets and switch everybody to economy together. That saves everyone conflict and also $$. [/quote]

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