WOW! You guys pay good! I pay my sitters what I got paid when I sat; $3.00 an hour! Or, sometimes we have a sitter come over after our son goes to bed at arounf 9:00 while we go out dancing. We usually don't gewt home until around 2 or 3 a.m. so we just pay $20 for the night.
Review your travel periodically. Generally, Global Services members attain elite Mileage Plus status. The top level in the Mileage Plus program requires a 100,000 annual mileage minimum. A Global Services invitation will arrive if you become one of United's best customers. Frequent international travel in paid first class or business class offers a better opportunity to reach Global Services status.
Roundtrip is 135,000 United miles + $181.50 in fees, the revenue ticket is $16,201, and the miles foregone, since I'm not an elite member, are 4462. The nominal value would be (16201 - 181.5) / (135,000 + 4462) = 11.5 cents per mile.ost to Buy Miles. As we covered in How to Buy Ultimate Rewards Points, you can buy up to 5000 Ultimate Rewards points per month for $125, which equates to 2.5 cents per point = 2.5 cents per United mile, since Ultimate Rewards points transfer 1:1 to United miles.