United Award Travel Increase

United Airlines has recently announced the increase of miles required for award travel starting January 1, 2009. I have banked over 600,000 miles in my account, Anna has almost 400,000 miles and Alysia has over 200,000 miles. That's 1.2 Million miles, enough for 12 tickets in First Class on Star Alliance with the old plan. This new devaluation makes a big dent to our mileage accounts. We used to be able to redeem 60K miles for economy, 90K miles for Business and 120 miles for First class to Asia. Now, we'll have to shell out 65K, 125K and 145K respectively. Thumb down to United.