Bad Deal: United MileagePlus Miles By The Month Subscription

I wonder if AA & DL would match this?

Airline are getting desperate. They have gutted mileage programs so much, people are no longer interested in using their credit cards or buying miles occasionally.
I predict that eventually, these mileage program will become worthless and Wall Street will be angry with the airlines peddling these worthless mileage programs as if they were worth billions.

There isn't any possible way to extract $1,219.08 of value out of 43,000 Mileage Plus Miles.

Makes perfect sense from UA's point of view--sell miles at 2.5 cents each, and let people redeem them at 1 cent each. They are telling us how dumb they really think their customers are.

This. United is acting like a non-profit asking for a recurring monthly donation. Like the old saying, there's a sucker born every minute.

I believe WN was the first airline to institute this

I used to get great value from United mile redemptions, but I never see these opportunities anymore. I do see outsized value redemptions on AA, though. I never do anything to earn extra United miles anymore because of that.