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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh?

Last spring break, we flew to France for 120K points and $1K in taxes. 4 tickets on KLM.

This spring break, we are flying to Zurich. 140K points and $1K in taxes. 4 tickets again.

We stayed 4 nights in a suite in NYC with the kids for Veterans Day weekend. All the holiday decor is already up. It was 90K points total, I booked it one month out.

Booking 5 days out for a holiday weekend? Of course there is NOTHING left. [/quote]

I don't understand this. We have Global Services status on United. About once every five years there's some great deal, but in general, using airline points are shit these days. Like we're trying to go to paris 'some time' in summer on economy plus, and United still wants something crazy like 240k points per person per round trip. 140k for 4 people is not a thing anymore. [/quote]

United just had an award sale to five different European cities, I think it was 25k each way. I almost pulled the trigger on a couple of them but didn’t. Still, these sales aren’t all that unusual. Economy Plus is trickier, of course.[/quote]

25k points each way is 50,000 points, or $500 in cash back value. That's comparable to Icelandair or SAS booking directly with them. The gap between points reward travel and cashing out and booking yourself is minimal these days. Might as well get a solid 2% cash back card and use the cash back on any flight you want.

If you are very strategic and spend a lot of time playing this game and hace a lot of flexibility, I don't doubt you can score some good deals. But if you're not living and breathing points. The whole rewards scheme is designed for it to be of no real benefit for 95% of users while giving 5% great deals on awkward off season flights. [/quote]

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