I am a Premier member with United. I only have 38k miles (and still working on accumulating more). I was just on United's site and read that it takes 100,000 miles for a r/t ticket to Europe from North America. Is this right?

Just wondering because my sister is a member of USAIR's program and she said a r/t ticket for her is only 50k miles. Seems a bit strange United would be 50k more. Or am I reading something wrong?

Thanks for your help!

UA calls its double-mileage awards with no capacity restriction "Standard Awards" for 100K to Europe, while "Saver Awards" is 50K.

Just a matter of nomenclature.

To be accurate historically, the &quot;saver&quot; awards came <i>after</i> the &quot;standard&quot; ones; the requirement was cut in half, not doubled.

Thank you rkkwan and Gardyloo. So if I obtain 50k miles, I should be able to get a r/t to Europe (as long as I call early enough and the dates aren't blackout dates)?

You want to be looking at the Saver/Star Alliance awards page:

http://www.united.com/page/article/0,,1141,00.html

United doesn't have blackout dates (its partners might), but there are of course capacity controls. It's best to be a little flexible, but with advance planning you shouldn't have much trouble finding an economy saver award to Europe.

But originally, a standard award for domestic travel has always been 25,000 miles on basically all airlines. So, they raised the double to &quot;standard&quot; requirement, then introduce a &quot;saver&quot;.

And AA call its double mileage &quot;AAnytime&quot;, CO call its &quot;Easypass&quot;, etc. DL call it &quot;Skychoice&quot;. But UA still calls it &quot;Standard&quot;.

Thank you ms_go for the link!! I now see where it says 50k for E and so on. Thanks everyone for your help!!