Not exact matches
As a transfer partner of Chase Ultimate Rewards, American Express Membership Rewards, Citi ThankYou
Points, and SPG Starpoints, it's easy to accumulate enough
Avios for award bookings.
Plus, because Aer Lingus is an airline partner with British Airways, you can redeem British Airways
Avios points for an Aer Lingus
award flight to Dublin, too.
You can book round - trip
award flights to Dublin from these US cities
for 26,000 British Airways
Avios points in coach during the off - season:
With
award tickets starting at 4,000 - 4,500
Avios in economy or 7,750 - 9,000
Avios in business class
for any flight less than 651 miles you'd be able to book 22 flights with that 100,000
point bonus.
For example, you can book a one - way award flight from the West Coast to Hawaii in coach for 12,500 British Airways Avios poin
For example, you can book a one - way
award flight from the West Coast to Hawaii in coach
for 12,500 British Airways Avios poin
for 12,500 British Airways
Avios points.
British Airways: Household accounts allow members to pool
Avios points between seven people who share the same address, and it happens to have very cheap domestic
awards if you're flying nonstop
for short distances.
While most programs determine the amount of
points required
for any
award trip based on what region you're in geographically and where you're heading,
Avios are based on -LSB-...]
While most programs determine the amount of
points required
for any
award trip based on what region you're in geographically and where you're heading,
Avios are based on distance traveled.
Another benefit of searching
for flights using
Avios is that there is an
Avios + Cash option, where you can supplement your
award booking with cash if you don't have enough
points in your account.
As a transfer partner of Chase Ultimate Rewards, American Express Membership Rewards, Citi ThankYou
Points, and SPG Starpoints, it's easy to accumulate enough
Avios for award bookings.
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For Family
Many travelers think of the Chase Sapphire Preferred as the ultimate travel rewards credit card as your
points are worth 1.25 cents each when you redeem them
for any
award travel on the Chase travel portal or they can be transferred to many 1:1 air travel and hotel loyalty programs like United, Southwest, British Airways
Avios, Hyatt, and Marriott.
For those who don't know, British Airways Avios points are an excellent option to use for shorter American flights as British Airways has a distance based award cha
For those who don't know, British Airways
Avios points are an excellent option to use
for shorter American flights as British Airways has a distance based award cha
for shorter American flights as British Airways has a distance based
award chart.
I like earning and redeeming
Avios and have done so
for some extremely valuable domestic economy
awards (on a value - per -
point basis).
With Chase Ultimate Rewards
points transferring over to both United Mileage Plus and Aer Lingus and with Ultimate Rewards and Amex Membership Rewards transferring over to British Airways
Avios, pulling together enough
points for a transatlantic
award to Seattle shouldn't be an issue....
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Avios points are extremely cost effective when redeemed
for short - haul flights on both American Airlines and British Airways, although the cost of an
award flight will increase if there are multiple segments as the cost of a ticket with multiple segments is based on the combined cost of each individual segment.
As I prefer to use my Chase Ultimate Rewards
points for Hyatt redemptions Amex Membership Rewards are where I look when I ned to top up my
Avios balance
for short - haul
awards within Europe or within the US.
While these flights are eligible
for mileage redemption using either American miles or
Avios points, the Uber rides are only free
for those that pay (
award tickets are out of luck).
And because British Airways
Avios partners with Alaska Airlines and is a distance - based
award program, you can book one of these non-stop flights from almost any West Coast gateway
for just 12,500
points one - way vs. 40,000 miles through some other programs.
Have you signed up
for TravelCon OC yet?British Airways
Avios are a somewhat unique type of
points because of the distance - based
award chart they use.
I love BA's
Avios points for the ability to book cheap
award flights on Alaska Airlines.
These partnerships make it easy to transfer
points to your Executive Club account whenever you need some
Avios for an
award booking.
Not losing focus is a pretty key element to making sure you earn enough miles /
points for whatever
awards you're aiming
for so, if you're in the process of accumulating
Avios for a British Airways redemption, you should probably carry on down that path and not split your earnings.
With
award tickets starting at 4,000 - 4,500
Avios in economy or 7,750 - 9,000
Avios in business class
for any flight less than 651 miles you'd be able to book 22 flights with that 100,000
point bonus.
As long as you fly in more or less a straight line and don't mix carriers,
Avios is often a great bargain
for domestic U.S. trips, and I've helped a couple people find
award space
for their
points in the last few months.
BA's
award chart
for travel around the United States starts at 7,500
Avios points per flight, but if you want to hop around Europe, Australia or some other international regions, you can book nonstop
award flights on British Airways and its partners from just 4,000 - 4,500
Avios plus about $ 28 in taxes and fees.
With first class partner redemptions on United now pricing at 110,000 miles each way from the U.S. to Europe, the elimination of the low 4,500
Avios level
award band
for domestic short - hops via British Airways, and Southwest
points worth less than ever before, it's hard to suggest that Ultimate Rewards still has the strongest stable of transfer partners.
For processing of the redemption request, please allow 5 working days for Asia Miles, Avios, Gold Points, Infinity MileageLands Miles, Flying Blue Award Miles, Garuda Frequent Flyer Miles, Enrich Miles, Qantas Points, Qmiles, KrisFlyer Miles, HHonors or IHG Rewards and 14 working days for Royal Orchid Plus or Guest Mil
For processing of the redemption request, please allow 5 working days
for Asia Miles, Avios, Gold Points, Infinity MileageLands Miles, Flying Blue Award Miles, Garuda Frequent Flyer Miles, Enrich Miles, Qantas Points, Qmiles, KrisFlyer Miles, HHonors or IHG Rewards and 14 working days for Royal Orchid Plus or Guest Mil
for Asia Miles,
Avios, Gold
Points, Infinity MileageLands Miles, Flying Blue
Award Miles, Garuda Frequent Flyer Miles, Enrich Miles, Qantas
Points, Qmiles, KrisFlyer Miles, HHonors or IHG Rewards and 14 working days
for Royal Orchid Plus or Guest Mil
for Royal Orchid Plus or Guest Miles.
For an additional $ 107 you save 15,600
Avios, have a broader choice of dates and flights and you earn
Avios and Tier
Points as well — It makes absolutely no sense to book
awards on these flights.
It's tempting to work on stockpiling frequent flyer miles and
points the way you would save
for a child's college education or retirement, but unfortunately frequent flyer miles in particular are subject to devaluations, sometimes massive ones and sometimes unannounced (
for example the United
Award Chart Devaluation earlier this year, the elimination of AAdvantage Explorer Awards with no notice a few months ago; the numerous Aeroplan devaluations; no award chart provided in advance of the British Airways Executive Club Avios devaluation, e
Award Chart Devaluation earlier this year, the elimination of AAdvantage Explorer
Awards with no notice a few months ago; the numerous Aeroplan devaluations; no
award chart provided in advance of the British Airways Executive Club Avios devaluation, e
award chart provided in advance of the British Airways Executive Club
Avios devaluation, etc..)
Nevertheless, here are my picks
for warm weather beach getaways, both
award travel and paid tickets, given the AA miles and
Avios points Carlos has:
Other Chase cards you can apply
for at the same time include the Chase British Airways (50K signup
points, 1.25
Avios per dollar, and an annual companion
award ticket if you spend $ 30K + in a year), and the Chase United Explorer (30K signup
points plus another 5K
points for adding a free additional user, and it gives free luggage, free primary car rental insurance including in the US and Israel, expanded saver and standard
award ticket availability, priority boarding, and more), the Chase Sapphire Preferred (40K signup
points plus another 5K
points for adding a free additional user, no fee the first year, free primary car rental insurance including in the US and Israel, plus 2 - 2.14
points per dollar on travel and dining with no Foreign Exchange fees), the Chase Marriott (with 50K signup
points plus a free night upon signup and a free night every subsequent year upon renewal), the Chase Freedom (which has no annual fee, gives 5
points per dollar in rotating categories, and 10 % bonus
points through 2015 if you have a Chase checking account), and the Chase Ink Cash (which also has no annual fee and gives 5
points per dollar on telecom / office supplies and 2
points per dollar on dining and gas)
As we did our last time, we'll likely split up on the trip over and back, such that either my husband or I will get a third
award ticket, perhaps one way in business using 40,000 United miles from the over 100,000 United miles I've earned from the Ink Bold (see How to Book a Business Class Award to Hawaii) and the other a combination of AA in coach from Hawaii to the West Coast for 12,500 Avios from the British Airways Visa — 100,000 points offer plus United Business First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed for EWR -
award ticket, perhaps one way in business using 40,000 United miles from the over 100,000 United miles I've earned from the Ink Bold (see How to Book a Business Class
Award to Hawaii) and the other a combination of AA in coach from Hawaii to the West Coast for 12,500 Avios from the British Airways Visa — 100,000 points offer plus United Business First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed for EWR -
Award to Hawaii) and the other a combination of AA in coach from Hawaii to the West Coast
for 12,500
Avios from the British Airways Visa — 100,000
points offer plus United Business First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed
for EWR - LAX.
See following I copied
award flights that shows up available
for points redemption with AA but not with
Avios, BA representative told me that AA does not make all of their
award seats available to BA, is that correct?
For example, an
award flight from Dallas to Cancun is only 7,500
Avios points, while the same flight will cost 12,500 American Airlines miles.
If you have Asia Miles or
Avios points, you have a head start in booking
awards, although you will pay more
for them.
I just booked a roundtrip
award from CVG - LAX
for 17,500 AA miles, booking with
Avios or Southwest
points would have been more that 17.5 k. I think Reduced Mileage
awards can be a great option
for longer distance Domestic flights.
See related: Cheap ways to renew soon - to - expire BA
Avios points, As airlines merge, frequent flier miles decline in value, Professional
award bookers promise «free» flights
for fewer miles
I actually prefer to earn
Avios points if I want to book an
award on Alaska Airlines, though Alaska's miles are pretty good
for partners like Cathay Pacific.
I thought about redeeming some
Avios points for the outbound journey to Kauai, which is a great deal at 12,500
points per person since
Avios is a distance - based
award chart.
Upon the cancellations of a
Avios for Upgrade booking 24 hours or more before departure of the first leg in the
Award travel itinerary a per person fee as stated on the Website and notified to you at the time of making your booking will be payable and all
Points will be re-credited to the Member's account and Taxes Fees and Charges will be refunded.
Upon the cancellations of a
Avios for Upgrade booking less than 24 hours before departure of the first leg in the
Award travel itinerary
Points in respect of the Upgrade will not be re-credited to the Member.