Tools
Points value calculator
Work out what one point is worth to you, in cents, from a redemption you actually made. Enter the points you spent, the cash price of what you got and any fees you still paid. The result is your realised value per point, not a programme average.
The tool
The formula, in words
Value per point equals the cash price of what you received, minus the fees and taxes you still paid, divided by the points you spent, expressed in cents. Subtracting the fees matters: a reward seat with 45 dollars of surcharges did not save you the full fare, and a valuation that ignores them flatters the programme.
What the number tells you
It tells you what your own redemption returned, once. It is a realised rate, not a forecast and not a published exchange rate. Two members of the same programme will get different answers from the same balance, because the value falls out of what each of them chose to book.
Why we do not publish a table of point values
Most valuation tables are a single number per programme, sourced from one redemption pattern and stale within months. The register does not hold verified valuations, so it publishes none. A tool that lets you compute your own is honest in a way an averaged table is not: your answer comes from a booking you can check.
Where it misleads
A single high-value redemption does not make a programme generous, and one poor redemption does not damn it. Run the calculation across several bookings before drawing a conclusion. The figure also ignores what the points cost you to earn, which is the other half of the question and depends on spend you would have made anyway.