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Have you ever cashed in any of your airline miles?

United App says I have 86,439 miles. Maybe I could cash thos...
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
It's 800 miles for Wi-Fi. You could probably get tickets to ...
Bipolar lemon center
  06/13/25
I don’t see the point in these miles. I’ve been ...
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
You're an order of magnitude off with that wifi calculation....
Bipolar lemon center
  06/13/25
I don't want to go to Hawaii.
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
trauma trigger from when you got cucked there?
Misanthropic erotic university
  06/13/25
No, I went to visit chandler's brother while there. I took m...
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
Nonstop to Hawaii (HNL) is 25,000 miles per leg. So it'd cos...
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
So looks like you could get two great roundtrip tickets then...
Bipolar lemon center
  06/13/25
many times
khaki charismatic station
  06/13/25
It’s easy to do if you have status. If you’re ju...
domesticated insane base keepsake machete
  06/13/25
I am occasional flyer. I do about 10-18 flights per year.
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
OK
domesticated insane base keepsake machete
  06/13/25
United has promoted me to SILVER TIER I believe 3 times.
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
I am not currently in SILVER TIER, however.
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
Jesus fuck, even I'm silver tier, and I hardly even fly. Ju...
Bipolar lemon center
  06/13/25
United requires you to fly like 20 domestic flights for silv...
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
No they don't. I just checked and I'm actually gold now. I f...
Bipolar lemon center
  06/13/25
What does SILVER TIER even get you? You have all these statu...
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
Board early, premiere security line, free baggage check, bon...
Bipolar lemon center
  06/13/25
I just want to get off of the plane as soon as possible and ...
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
Yes! Fly Spirit or Frontier instead! Edit: wait, are you ...
Bipolar lemon center
  06/13/25
i flew once in business class to asia last year and got silv...
khaki charismatic station
  06/13/25
I have never been to Asia.
Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth
  06/13/25
You'd fit right in
aqua stead
  06/13/25
When I was young and half broke I got in the habit of hoardi...
aqua stead
  06/13/25
Delta is the worst they charge like 450k one way for busines...
khaki charismatic station
  06/13/25
You can find good deals but I’ve only lucked into it a...
Wonderful circlehead
  06/13/25
delta is by far the worst at this. completely insane valuati...
sooty cerebral rehab
  06/13/25
I don't even know how that works. The little card thing o...
Learning Disabled Swashbuckling Stag Film Newt
  06/13/25
This era is so fucking over. Years ago I remember cashin...
sooty cerebral rehab
  06/13/25
Yeah it's pretty gay, lately I've found better value in usin...
khaki charismatic station
  06/13/25
dat 50% bump
Learning Disabled Swashbuckling Stag Film Newt
  06/13/25
United you can use miles to cut into the fare price. A coup...
bull headed spot
  06/13/25
$0.002 cents a mile is crazy goy shit
khaki charismatic station
  06/13/25
it's either that or $0.000. I will never get enough miles t...
bull headed spot
  06/13/25
I get straight cash back on everything - i still cash in my ...
turquoise parlor fanboi
  06/13/25


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Date: June 13th, 2025 8:06 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

United App says I have 86,439 miles. Maybe I could cash those in for a bottle of water or something.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011439)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 8:19 AM
Author: Bipolar lemon center

It's 800 miles for Wi-Fi. You could probably get tickets to Hawaii for 86k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011455)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 8:30 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

I don’t see the point in these miles. I’ve been accumulating for 20 years and have probably spent $100,000 on the airlines and I can get “free WiFi” for 10 flights. Wow. What a steal. I love my status. I am elite.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011471)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 8:46 AM
Author: Bipolar lemon center

You're an order of magnitude off with that wifi calculation. And did you miss that you could probably get a free flight to Hawaii? That's not exactly bad as a reward as long as you didn't spend any of that money just to get miles

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011499)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 8:48 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

I don't want to go to Hawaii.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011509)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 12:40 PM
Author: Misanthropic erotic university

trauma trigger from when you got cucked there?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49012274)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 12:47 PM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

No, I went to visit chandler's brother while there. I took my whole family. It was peaceful and serene.

I have yet to meet chandler in person though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49012292)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 8:51 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

Nonstop to Hawaii (HNL) is 25,000 miles per leg. So it'd cost 50,000 to go to Hawaii + $11.20 in airport fees.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011517)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:08 AM
Author: Bipolar lemon center

So looks like you could get two great roundtrip tickets then. I imagine flights to CA or whatever shithole you would want to fly to would be cheaper, or at least not more expensive than, Hawaii

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011554)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 8:08 AM
Author: khaki charismatic station

many times

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011442)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 8:58 AM
Author: domesticated insane base keepsake machete

It’s easy to do if you have status. If you’re just an occasional flyer they make it an asspain.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011532)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:02 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

I am occasional flyer. I do about 10-18 flights per year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011544)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:03 AM
Author: domesticated insane base keepsake machete

OK

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011545)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:04 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

United has promoted me to SILVER TIER I believe 3 times.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011546)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:05 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

I am not currently in SILVER TIER, however.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011549)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:10 AM
Author: Bipolar lemon center

Jesus fuck, even I'm silver tier, and I hardly even fly. Just book business class to Europe a couple times and you'll be there

I think I go to gold if I do even one more flight anywhere this year

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011560)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:12 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

United requires you to fly like 20 domestic flights for silver tier and I don’t do connecting flights if I can avoid it so that’s pretty difficult for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011563)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:14 AM
Author: Bipolar lemon center

No they don't. I just checked and I'm actually gold now. I flew 5 or fewer trips, one of which was business class international

You get status through qualifying flights OR by spending money. The business class trip made me silver nearly on its own

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011567)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:16 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

What does SILVER TIER even get you? You have all these status fags snapping up the economy plus seats and I have to pay hundreds more just to squeeze into a middle seat.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011573)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:18 AM
Author: Bipolar lemon center

Board early, premiere security line, free baggage check, bonus miles, complimentary upgrades, and probably some other shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011578)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:20 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

I just want to get off of the plane as soon as possible and be at my destination. There is nothing positive about flying with UA. They can keep their upgrades and their high society and their bulllshit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011586)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:25 AM
Author: Bipolar lemon center

Yes! Fly Spirit or Frontier instead!

Edit: wait, are you pissed off because money spent, like a single business class flight, can get status faster/easier than sweating it out with the proles over like 20 flights?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011598)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:15 AM
Author: khaki charismatic station

i flew once in business class to asia last year and got silver tier

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011570)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:16 AM
Author: Shivering Splenetic Piazza Scourge Upon The Earth

I have never been to Asia.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011574)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:22 AM
Author: aqua stead

You'd fit right in

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011589)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:33 AM
Author: aqua stead

When I was young and half broke I got in the habit of hoarding these things in case I "needed" them. Then I kind of forgot about them until one day I realized it no longer matters to me what a plane ticket costs but I had a ton of miles. So I've cashed in about 500k in the last few years, mostly Delta because that's what I usually fly. But I have about 350k aa and 600k Amex points that I'll use going forward. The value keeps going down I'm told so might as well use them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011607)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:50 AM
Author: khaki charismatic station

Delta is the worst they charge like 450k one way for business class transpacific

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011648)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:57 AM
Author: Wonderful circlehead

You can find good deals but I’ve only lucked into it a few times. There’s probably some Azn app that monitors this kind of thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011676)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 10:00 AM
Author: sooty cerebral rehab

delta is by far the worst at this. completely insane valuation.

I havent flown SQ in a decade so they deactivated my account and I cannot even search anymore. fuck them. I dont need an orchid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011700)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:40 AM
Author: Learning Disabled Swashbuckling Stag Film Newt

I don't even know how that works.

The little card thing on flights says that a drink is like $10 or some number of miles, but I couldn't tell you the steps to do that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011617)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 9:58 AM
Author: sooty cerebral rehab

This era is so fucking over.

Years ago I remember cashing in 25k for an economy rountrip on united (really continental).

Now the credit card "miles" have inflated shit beyond any degree of comprehension. its like 160K for the same flight.

The biggest gripe was the change to "Spend" - during a period of 4 years I was traveling business class to europe constantly and each time I was credited like 1000 miles instead of the 7000 I would have been entitled to under a different regime. So after 4 business trips I was still no where near "silver tier" sps

fuck boomers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011686)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 10:01 AM
Author: khaki charismatic station

Yeah it's pretty gay, lately I've found better value in using my chase points on their own travel portal, which was always a losing proposition before

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011707)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 10:31 AM
Author: Learning Disabled Swashbuckling Stag Film Newt

dat 50% bump

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49011850)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 11:49 AM
Author: bull headed spot

United you can use miles to cut into the fare price. A couple years ago I used 7K points to save like $19.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49012136)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 11:57 AM
Author: khaki charismatic station

$0.002 cents a mile is crazy goy shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49012166)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 12:15 PM
Author: bull headed spot

it's either that or $0.000. I will never get enough miles through regular flying and even if you do CC stuff to stack miles it ends up being a pain in the ass to actually redeem them. hotel points are far easier by comparison.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49012215)



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Date: June 13th, 2025 7:12 PM
Author: turquoise parlor fanboi

I get straight cash back on everything - i still cash in my Delta miles like every 5 years.

Not sure how people deal with this mile and points bullshit. There's all this kafka-esque rules where you can never get the flight you want - even if it is the same price its like 3x as many "miles" - so you end up spending all this time trying to navigate teh bullshit and end up sitting in a middle seat 30 rows from your significant other because they can't combine points tickets because one is a J fare and the other is an L fare.

This shit was only worthwhile before they had an army of computers working on an algorithm to make sure you could never extract any value from your "points".

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5737179&forum_id=2#49013615)