How Much Are Frontier Miles Worth?

Frontier Airlines hands out its miles like in-flight peanuts. In fact, our analysis showed the carrier awards more than twice as many miles per dollar spent as competitors like Delta and United. Yet the number of miles doesn’t matter if you don’t know how much they’re worth.

NerdWallet values Frontier miles at 1.5 cents each. This is a value drawn from real-world data on hundreds of economy routes, not a maximized value. In other words, you should aim for award redemptions that offer 1.5 cents or more in value from your Frontier miles when booking economy seats.

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What does this value mean?

We compared many Frontier routes when paying with miles versus cash, and determined that Frontier miles are worth 1.5 cents each, based on this comparison.

We didn’t do anything fancy like look for especially good deals or high-value redemptions. So this value represents the average that you should be able to extract when redeeming your miles for award tickets.

Calculator: Convert Frontier miles to dollars

Use this calculator to determine the dollar value of any number of Frontier miles, based on our baseline estimate. This is useful when comparing promotions, welcome bonuses or the cost of an award ticket.

How has the value changed over time?

The value of Frontier miles has been volatile over the last few years, dropping in value in 2019 and then climbing back up to its current valuation.

How flexible are Frontier miles?

Not very. Frontier miles can only be used to book Frontier flights, unlike some other programs which offer partner redemptions, shopping portals and other flexible uses. Similarly, you cannot transfer Frontier miles to other programs.

Wondering what you can do with those miles? Check out our guide to the Frontier Airlines award chart.

How did we determine the value of Frontier miles?

We collected hundreds of data points comparing the cash value to award (mile) value for the same routes and dates. That is, we compared the cost of a given ticket in either cash or miles across many tickets.

This method differs from many others in that it looks at real-world redemptions rather than hypothetical, maximized redemptions. The advantage of this approach is that it provides an actual, real-world indication of how much these miles are worth on average. That said, it doesn’t take into account the high-value redemptions that points enthusiasts seek.