Not exact matches
Chase Ultimate Rewards can be transferred to 9 airline
partners, which give you access to
award flights with all 3 major airline
alliances: Oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance.
Citi AAdvantage Executive card earns AAdvantage miles, which can be redeemed for
award flights operated by American Airlines, its
partners in the oneworld
alliance or non-
alliance partners.
Citi AAdvantage Executive card earns AAdvantage miles, which can be redeemed for
award flights operated by American Airlines, its
partners in the oneworld
alliance or non-
alliance partners.
You can't fly any airline, but thanks to airline
alliances, such as Oneworld, SkyTeam, and Star Alliance, you can book
award flights on
partner airlines.
There are basically three different ways to book
award flights domestically: 1) revenue - based
awards with Southwest, JetBlue, or Virgin America; 2) distance - based
flights with British Airways Avios; or 3) traditional region - based
award redemptions with domestic airlines, such as United, American, Delta, and Alaskan (or any other
alliance partners).
By
partner awards, I mean
flights on other Star
Alliance airlines that you can use your United mile for since they're in the same
alliance.
They don't pass on fuel surcharges to
award tickets, and you can use United miles to book
award flights with their Star
Alliance partners (the largest airline
alliance in the... read more
Once I compiled the list of SkyTeam
alliance partners (Alitalia, Delta) with non-stop
flights between the East / Central U.S. and Italy, I imputed all of the possible routes into
Award Hacker.
But again since you've decided to potentially go with
alliance partners like United, you'd be able to search for
award flights with United that you'll use Singapore Airlines miles on.
Partner airline: An airline which allows connecting
flights, or codeshares, is a
partner airline, but
partner airlines also often include
alliance partners with reciprocal
award earning and redemptions.
Any mileage programs marked with a * show pricing that is only available if your
award does not include any
alliance partners (i.e. you only fly American Airlines
flights if using American AAdvantage or United Airlines
flights if using United MileagePlus).
Later on, you can use your United miles to book an
award flight on United or their
alliance partners, including Air Canada.
In addition to being aware of the airlines you fly and which airline
alliance they are in, it's important to understand airline miles earned on one airline can be redeemed for
award flights on
partner airlines, too.
Japan Airlines like many airlines in an
alliance uses one
award chart for its own
flights and another chart for oneworld
alliance partners.
This flexibility to book
awards on any
alliance exceeds the number of
flights you can book with American Airlines miles, but overall those 12
partners probably just equal American's program, which is better than any of the 12.