Some tools like ours will show you both the gate times and the runway times. On arrivals, the runway time is the time the plane touches down on the runway. The arrival gate time includes the time it takes to taxi to the gate. On departures, the gate time is the time at which the plane pulls back from the gate.
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The answer depends in large part on the kind of flyer you are, and how you earn and spend your miles. We've seen frequent flyer gurus estimate that miles are worth anywhere between one-half to six cents per miles, when one calculates how much in fare value miles will buy. To test that, we looked at five route and fare class scenarios to compare how much each would cost if we were to buy the flight using our hard earned cash versus using miles.