i paid six dollars for a fifteen hundred dollar flight through travel hacking i'm buying a last minute flight from our best friend for christmas to join me in japan for new year's first i use seesaw arrow to search for airline award availability and sort it from the lowest amount of points on economy this is a delta flight under virgin atlantic's program when checking on google flights for the same flight the cash value is rated at one thousand five hundred and fifty four dollars on virgin atlantic's website the same flight is rated at twenty seven thousand five hundred points and six dollars twenty seven and a half thousand points is about two hundred and fifty dollars in cash so it's much more at all deposit