On: 37 rental cars – 2 days – 185,000 miles earned

[grandalf]

that's redeemable for about 4 round trip flights from the US to Europe.

[monksy → grandalf]

That's in an econ seat. It's about 120k round trip for business/first.

[grandalf → monksy]

If you're willing to go to such lengths to get the miles, chances are first class is not a priority.

[monksy → grandalf]

FC on domestic nope. But if you ever want to fly first on Emerites, Quantas, or Singapore... it's a heck of a lot cheaper to do it on award miles.

[ubernostrum → monksy]

I'm sitting on a cache of American Airlines miles equivalent to a business-class round-trip to Sydney on Qantas, in anticipation of visiting Australia sometime in the next couple years.

For a flight that's over 15 hours, you better believe it's worth it.

[mseebach → grandalf]

It's EuroBonus points, which aren't quite miles. A round-trip Nordics-US redemption is 60k in economy, 100k in business (+€49 in fees).