Not exact matches
You will always
have to pay some fees and taxes when you book an award ticket with
ANA Mileage Club, as well as any carrier
surcharges («
fuel surcharges»).
Travel Is Free
has a good review of his experience with
fuel surcharges when booking
ANA award tickets.
My preferred method of getting to New Zealand
would be to book a roundtrip with
ANA miles on United Airlines since they don't pass on
fuel surcharges and your total fees
would be minimal.
The drawback is that you're going to
have to pay
fuel surcharges for
ANA flights.
Thus, while you'll
have to watch out for fees on alliance partners like Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines, it's definitely possible to get to your destination on
ANA without shelling out a lot of cash on fees and
fuel surcharges.
ANA does
have fuel surcharges and fees on its metal on many partners (besides United) and that's the one drawback of the program.
You'll probably
have to pay some pretty hefty
fuel surcharges unless you get kind of lucky when using
ANA miles to get to Africa but paying fees when you only
have to spend 104,000 miles is not that bad of a deal.
She also could
have used her Amex Membership Rewards points for an aspirational redemption such as Singapore Suites or Lufthansa First Class (albeit it with
fuel surcharges via Aeroplan, Singapore, or
ANA) and gotten even more value.
The important thing to remember with booking partners with
ANA is that you'll need to book a roundtrip ticket and that you'll
have to pay some
fuel surcharges.
Since United does not fly to South Africa, you'll
have to pay
fuel surcharges if you want to get there with
ANA miles.
While some
ANA partners
have a terrific business class product, they also
have something else:
fuel surcharges.
As much as I hate
fuel surcharges — and I really, really hate
fuel surcharges — I
would rather fly with
ANA.
ANA doesn't
have fuel surcharges to Japan and most destinations in Asia.
As an example, if you were to book a Turkish Airlines flight from JFK to IST (Istanbul) with
ANA, you
'd pay about $ 340 in
fuel surcharges.
Fuel surcharges / fees will be similar to what SQ and
ANA would charge.
People love Aeroplan because they offer some pretty great redemption options (90,000 miles for business class to Europe, though they
've recently changed their award chart to be less valuable)-- see here for details, and they love
ANA because with their distance - based rewards you can get some great values (63,000
ANA miles for a business class ticket on Virgin to London which until recently did not require Virgin's outrageous
fuel surcharges).
ANA is good, only issue I
have with them is that they charge
fuel surcharges on most flights (unless you can snag United or USAirways).