Hyatt's Points +
Cash award chart effectively values points at up to 2 cents each — you are «buying» points at up to 2 cents each to save those points already in your account.
Not exact matches
However, the United
award chart shows that business class saver tickets only cost 60,000 each way, or 120,000 round - trip for the same exact flight, a quarter of how many miles or points you would have needed with
cash back or a statement credit.
Some airlines like Southwest do not publish a fixed
award chart; instead, the cost of an
award flight fluctuates to match the
cash sticker price of the paid fare equivalent.
Virgin America utilizes a revenue - based
award chart on its own flights, which means a more expensive
cash flight will require more reward points to book.
And because British Airways has an
award redemption
chart that's organized by distance flown instead of region, you'll only to
cash in 25,000 British Airways miles on a roundtrip ticket from Los Angeles to Honolulu instead of the 45,000 miles American requires for that same flight.
Not only does Hyatt have an excellent all points
award chart, it also gives you the flexibility of redeeming points and
cash for your stays.
JetBlue utilizes a revenue - based
chart which pegs the mileage cost of an
award to the
cash price of a ticket.
The bonuses are either too small to buy most tickets when converted to
cash, or the points are too valuable to waste on inflated
award charts when converted to miles.
In addition to having a great all - points
award chart, Hyatt also gives you the option to redeem points and
cash for a stay.
JetBlue doesn't offer a fixed
award chart, but instead the number of miles required to fly is dependent on the current
cash price of the ticket.
The
chart is interactive so you can sort the properties by name,
cash price,
award price, or cents per point.
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Award Cost
Charts
Here's the Hyatt
award chart showing
Cash & Points redemptions across all of Hyatt's hotel categories:
We've certainly seen a lot of devaluation lately with nearly 100 % increases to the Hilton HHonors
award chart, some adjustments to
Cash + Points
awards from SPG, and the hit to airline mile transfers from Club Carlson.
Air Canada offers two types of
award tickets: ClassicFlight, which adhers to the standard, zone - based
award chart pricing, and Market Fare, which is pegged to the cost of
cash tickets and priced based on demand.
Most hated to see the
award chart go (although Hilton already had a form of dynamic pricing) but some of the changes like points pooling and the points +
cash slider were welcomed by many Honors customers.
I should also note that you can generally redeem points earned from travel rewards cards for
cash back or through travel portals that allow you to circumvent having to transfer points and use
award charts.
Southwest Airlines is different than the other
award programs as its
award prices are not based on an
award chart, but instead are tied to the
cash price of the tickets.
This has been a horrible year so far on the hotel front — Priority Club has devalued their
award chart, Starwood has increased the cost of
cash & points, Marriott added a category nine and increased the cost of 36 % of their properties, and now this, which is by far the worst.
Since the first of the year Priority Club introduced a new 9 - tier reward
chart, Starwood raised the price of
cash and points
awards, Marriott introduced a new more expensive
award tier and a points price increase for 36 % of their properties.
The problem is their
award prices are tied to the price of a
cash ticket, and I can't just put a single price in the
chart.
But I wouldn't go overboard buying points unless you are reasonably confident you'll use them quickly because
cash is better to have than points, and the
award chart can always be devalued.
Hyatt has mimicked at least one aspect of the Starwood Preferred Guest
award chart by introducing Points +
Cash awards.
JetBlue doesn't have an
award chart like most other airlines, instead points can be used for all flights that are bookable with
cash (there is a 3,500 1,000 point minimum that must be redeemed though).