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by lotsofpulp 2089 days ago
I’ve searched United flights for many years, and have never found one at over $0.01. Plus the usual taxes and fees, end it’s worth less.

If a flight is $500, the miles are always >= 50,000, at least on United.

Hilton’s points are worth far below $0.01. I don’t know what they go buy, but it’s usually $0.005 at best, if not worse whenever I have searched it.
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ValentineC 2089 days ago
One of the few good things about redeeming Hilton and Marriott hotel points is the 5th night free benefit [1][2], which bumps the value of one's hotel points by around 20–25% in some cases.

[1] https://hiltonhonors3.hilton.com/en/promotions/5th-night-fre...

[2] https://www.marriott.com/loyalty/redeem/hotels/free-nights.m...

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NovemberWhiskey 2089 days ago
If you're booking economy flights, you're probably not getting good value.

International business and first class flights are often 2x or 3x the number of miles, but usually 5x to 15x the number of dollars.

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arcticbull 2089 days ago
Indeed Hilton is worth about $0.005 as I mentioned.

United, however, are worth substantially more. I just redeemed 77K for a one-way business class flight from SFO to IST non-stop on Turkish, which was priced at $2000 on a half-round-trip basis ($0.025).

It's actually quite easy to get $0.015 on United when redeeming for economy class. Maybe Pandemic pricing is messing with the numbers, but this shouldn't be too challenging most of the time. They don't impose fuel surcharges which helps a lot.

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