Etihad's American
Airlines award chart includes off - peak economy awards for certain destinations.
Not exact matches
The Turkish
Airlines award chart sets this region to
include not only the United States, but also Netherlands Antilles, Bermuda, Canada, and Mexico.
SkyMiles is the loyalty program that many love to hate, and this chorus of negativity has only swelled with the
airline's most recent changes (
including removing
award charts from its website and expansion of its basic economy fares).
Tucked away in the
airline's
award chart is a truly outstanding deal for flights like from Australia or New Zealand to South Asia, which
includes Hong Kong and Macau, but not China at large.
For ClassicFlight
awards, Air Canada's
award chart is usually better than many of its partners,
including United, but the
airline often passes on fuel surcharges levied by partners.
If you book business class on Japan
Airlines with Asia Miles and your booking
includes a connection on American
Airlines (or another Oneworld carrier), the booking will fall under a different
award chart.
They've already implemented a new
award chart for partner
award bookings,
including American
Airlines award bookings like the one I was booking today.
If you want to fly on multiple partners
airlines, or if you want to fly on a partner without
including travel on Cathay Pacific, then you must use the oneworld multi-carrier
award chart.
American
Airlines announced several sweeping changes to its loyalty program last year,
including a devalued
award chart, fewer upgrades for elite members, and plans to begin
awarding miles on the basis of revenue — rather than distance — sometime in 2016.
Upgrade rates are no longer
included in the Hawaiian
Airlines award chart, but cost roughly 25,000 miles for flights when First Class Saver
awards are available and 50,000 when only Flex
awards remain.
This really reminds me of the Hilton devaluation in February and stings even more than other
airlines including Delta and Air France / KLM who have announced major
award chart mileage devaluations in the past several months.
Vietnam
Airlines has separate award charts for its own flights and for flights on partner airlines, including SkyTeam
Airlines has separate
award charts for its own flights and for flights on partner
airlines, including SkyTeam
airlines,
including SkyTeam members.
Alaska's
award chart for American
Airlines includes American's off - peak rates, but with the added benefit of two free stopovers per roundtrip.
Alaska's
award chart for domestic economy is displayed below (note that this
includes the state of Alaska, by the
airline's definition).
You get access to the Oneworld Alliance of
airlines, which includes American Airlines, US Airways, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, Iberia, and more, and while the distance - based award chart can be difficult for some to understand, it also has the potential to be extremely v
airlines, which
includes American
Airlines, US Airways, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, Iberia, and more, and while the distance - based award chart can be difficult for some to understand, it also has the potential to be extremely v
Airlines, US Airways, Cathay Pacific, Japan
Airlines, Iberia, and more, and while the distance - based award chart can be difficult for some to understand, it also has the potential to be extremely v
Airlines, Iberia, and more, and while the distance - based
award chart can be difficult for some to understand, it also has the potential to be extremely valuable.
The EuroBonus
award chart for flights on its own
airlines, which
include SAS, Wideroe and Estonian Air, is zone - based with five zones: Nordic, EU1, EU2, USA and Asia.
Some of the best
include the following: United
Airlines, which opens up access to the huge Star Alliance network of carriers; British Airways, offering great value on short - haul nonstop flights due to their distance - based
award chart; Korean
Airlines, with amazing
award availability in their first class cabins; and Hyatt, which is widely recognized as offering some of the highest value point redemption opportunities of any hotel chain.
Now let's look at how to maximize the
award chart for partner
airlines (which
includes if you are flying ANA and any partner segment).
If your
award includes any OneWorld partner other than fellow Avios
airlines then you switch to the OneWorld
award chart which prices according to total distance regardless of segments.
Plus, note that this has very limited use when booking with Iberia Avios since Iberia would flip to a different
award chart (the OneWorld
chart I wrote about previously) when you
include partner
airlines like American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qanta
airlines like American
Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qanta
Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, etc..
Etihad miles are region based, and as you can see, the Etihad
chart is almost exactly the same as American
Airlines» own
chart for American
Airlines flights
including for off peak
awards.