If you're not familiar with how award space works, this post about American
Airlines saver level award tickets gives a little more info (which applies to most airlines).
Not exact matches
If you are flexible and think you can always score the limited
Saver level seats from
airlines, then you can earn even higher
awards.
As a Hawaiian
Airlines cardholder, you also get access to discounted
award flights which can be even cheaper than
saver level awards.
Airlines balance a multitude of different factors when deciding how many
award seats to release at the low
level (
saver) and higher
levels.
If you happen to find
saver level award space on American
Airlines, Avios are also great for short flights within the U.S.
While finding
saver level business class
award space on Hawaiian
Airlines can be very tough, there are lots of routes with lie - flat seats if you can find the space.
Since business travel plummets during holiday weeks,
airlines often make first - class
awards available at the
saver award level even when economy seats are selling like hotcakes.
Specifically, changes are affecting
Saver Award levels in the Singapore
Airlines and SilkAir
Award Chart.
Since British Airways is only a partner
airline, it only has access to partner inventory, which means only the lowest «
Saver»
level awards.
For local
airline partners that are basically an extension of SAA — Airlink and SA Express — the previous MileageKeeper (like a
saver fare) and AnyDay
award pricing
levels remain in effect.
Revisions to
Saver Award levels in the Singapore
Airlines and SilkAir
Award Chart have been made to ensure that flight rewards remain sustainable yet competitive.
But here's the very important thing to know: Not all partners will show up on an
airline's online
award booking — and the Big Three have some of the worst availability of
Saver (low)
level awards of any
airlines.
The
airline releases more business class
award seats at the
saver redemption
level than economy seats.
This compares favorably to United
Airlines itself, which charges 45,000 miles for
saver -
level awards on the exact same flights.
Since British Airways has a distance - based
award chart and American
Airlines is a Oneworld partner, you can use Avios to book any AA flight with
saver level award availability and have the price based on the Avios chart.
Right now, United.com is showing discounted
saver level awards on partner
airlines in business class to Europe.
That was pretty unfortunate, given that Virgin Australia is the
airline which releases the most premium cabin
saver level award space between the US and Australia, making it one of the best uses of SkyMiles.
Since posting Singapore
Airlines Suites Class Available at
Saver Award Level on KrisFlyer, I've been getting questions about redeeming for Singapore Suites on Singapore
Airlines, and thought it would be helpful to answer these in a post rather than individual emails.
It's too early to say whether Singapore
Airlines will make another Suite
Saver level award available later, closer to the date of departure or not.
But because some of its
award seat prices exceeded the
saver -
level award price, the
airline's availability rating was listed at 87.1 %, not 100 %.
It is important to know how to look for American
Airlines award space at the
saver level.