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Points Value Heatmap

Where a point goes furthest, shaded across the map. Pick a cabin, then pick a region to see what a redemption there tends to return and what drives it.

Cabin

A business seat costs more in cash than it does in points, which is most of what this map shows.

What the shading means

High Value 2.0¢ and up Average Value 1.5¢ to 1.9¢ Low Value Under 1.5¢

How it works

  1. Pick the cabin you would bookEconomy and business are priced and released separately, and a premium seat returns more per point because its cash fare rises faster than its award price does.
  2. Read the shadingThe greener a region, the further a point goes into it. The legend names the band each shade stands for, in cents.
  3. Open a regionClick any region, on the map or in the list beside it, to see its figure and the reason behind it.

These are Milescanner's own estimates of what a redemption into each region tends to return, not readings from a booking. What a point is actually worth turns on the route, the dates, the programme and what that exact seat costs in cash on the day. Use the map to decide where to look, then run the real figures through Cents Per Point before you book.

FAQ

Where a point
goes furthest

Divide what the seat would have cost in cash by the points it took, then multiply by a hundred. A seat worth 500 dollars for 25,000 points returns 2 cents a point. That is the same arithmetic the Cents Per Point tool runs on a single booking, and it is what these region figures are estimating across many.

They are our own estimates, region by region, of what redemptions into that part of the world tend to return. They are not measured from your bookings or from live fares, and they are held in one place so they can be corrected as better figures arrive. Treat them as a starting point for where to look rather than a quote.

Because the cash fare climbs faster than the award price does. A business seat can cost three or four times the economy fare in money while costing only twice the points, so the same flight returns far more per point up front. That gap is real, but it only pays off if you would genuinely have bought the expensive seat.

Where you are flying to. Every figure describes what a redemption into that part of the world tends to return, whichever airport you set off from.

Not necessarily. A region average hides a wide spread: the same programme can price two seats on the same day very differently. Use the Award Availability Calendar to find the dates that have space, then price one of them properly before you decide.

Because they describe the same thing. A figure that grades A on that tool has to read as strong here, or the site would be disagreeing with itself about one number. The three shades are that tool's A, B, and C and below.