rlduvall
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- Joined
- May 7, 2002
My take too. Points are just more flexible to use. Worth the small difference in conversion not to have to keep track of travel funds.
What's so weird is The Points Guy indicates that by converting funds into points you are gaining slightly in value. I don't see it that way, but I have to defer to the experts. See his excerpt below. My valuation is I took the dollar value of my travel funds and divided it by the points offered which netted a value of .0012. I then looked at what I had purchased in points against the dollar value of the airfare and it was .0015.
(Edit: Fangorn has straightened me out. While my valuation is correct, my math logic is backwards. It is a very good value conversion.)
". . . it boils down to the conversion ratio. And based on the tickets we’ve analyzed, it appears to be fixed at just under 1.3 cents per point. TPG Valuation for Rapid Rewards is 1.5 cents per point, so you’re gaining some value when converting funds to points."
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