Continental Airline Tickets

Continental "One Pass" help!?

I am new to the one pass rewards program. I am completely confused on how it works. The past 3 years or so ive accumulated about 42,000 miles...I wanted to get a round trip ticket from NY to OK. When looking online it says it is about 2,000 miles one way (so 4,000 round trip)....When i called the lady to try to figure out how to get it she said it would cost 35,000 miles...When I asked where the other 31,000 miles came from she didn't really answer my question....So did I earn all of these miles JUST for 1 round trip ticket?! And why doesn't it cost only 4,000 miles since that's how far it is????

Public Comments

1. The miles you have accumulated are surely the miles you have flown. I would not think that you could redeem every mile you have flown for a new ticket with the same mileage. That would mean that for every flight you took somewhere, you would get a free flight for the same distance--sort of two trips for the price of one. If the airlines did that, they would be out of business in no time.