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During my recent airberlin insolvency debacle, I booked an SQ Business Class award ticket as backup and was able to cancel it for a redeposit of my miles for only $ 30 — now, it will be $ 75 or 240 %!

Not exact matches

If you prefer, you can book a business class award ticket... but the taxes and fees for each person will be the same as those on a first class award.

This is especially frustrating for business class and first class award tickets, and even worse if you book on an airline that hits you with steep carrier - imposed surcharges (such as British Airways).

Additionally, Delta has announced that as of June 20, SkyMiles members will be able to use their miles for a number of other products including upgrades to some cabin classes, selecting preferred seats, ticket change fees, award ticket redeposit fees, same - day confirmed fees, and external ticket charges.

As per award chart, a round - trip ticket from New York City to Honolulu costs 35,000 Elevate points in economy and 80,000 points in business class.

It does have a restriction on economy class awards, so that could be as much as 20,000 LifeMiles discount on a roundtrip economy class ticket to Colombia, or 18,000 miles to Central America.

Head off for a weekend in Mexico or the Caribbean in coach class for as little as 25,000 miles round - trip for an off - peak award ticket, or 50,000 miles round - trip in business class for a MileSAAver award ticket.

If you are buying discounted fares and think this is your easy path to business or first class, it's possible that booking an award ticket would be just as easy and a better value.

The number of HawaiianMiles required to book an award ticket is determined by the regions involved in your booking, as well as the class of service.

As you can see, first class awards to Asia can get very expensive, but business class tickets are more reasonable, especially with zero fuel surcharges.

If by chance the award you're looking at goes down in price (which will be true for economy and business class tickets to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America, as well as economy class tickets to India and the Middle East) then you may also call American and ask them to re-price the award to refund the extra miles back to your account.

Some European and Asian carriers already take it to greater extremes, awarding as little as 10 % of the distance flown with deeply discounted fares but 300 % for long - haul first class tickets.

For Economy Class flyers this will probably make little difference as the British Airways Executive Club already essentially factors in the cost of a fare when it awards Avios — that's why the cheaper Economy Class tickets only earn Avios based on 25 % of the distance traveled.

You could stretch the 237,500 miles for 7 one way business class tickets to India as you need only 40 % of the miles needed for an award ticket and you can purchase rest of the miles during the booking process.

Members will earn award miles based on the flight distance2 and the purchased fare class for the following tickets and flights, with some exclusions as listed at the bottom of this page.

Since Qatar's new product is going to be as nice as a first - class product, you may want to book this product and save an incredible 90,000 miles for a round trip ticket versus a first - class award.

Under the new system for award miles, flights on partner carriers not issued on 016 ticket stock — meaning they don't earn PQDs — will earn award miles based on distance flown and fare class as under the current system.

American have continued their assault on award redemptions to Hawaii by implementing a 40 % increase in the number of miles needed for a Business Class ticket but, in the case of partner awards, this doesn't make much difference as most people would be flying to Hawaii on American Airlines and not a partner airline anyway.

If you prefer, you can book a business class award ticket... but the taxes and fees for each person will be the same as those on a first class award.

Of course, purchasing miles when you know that award space is available can still make sense in such situations as it's usually cheaper than buying a first or business class ticket outright.

Since Virgin uses two cabin planes and doesn't count its main cabin select as an intermediary class, it's possible to upgrade award tickets directly from the main cabin to first class.

In fact, first class tickets cost the same as or less than the business class awards offered by the other alliances.

Business Class awards cost fewer miles (62,500) but you'll pay the same taxes and fees as you would for a First Class ticket so, if you have the miles, First Class appears better value.

Of course, as I discussed in my first article on travel hacking theory, I do value that award trip at more than $ 790, in fact, I value it at about $ 1,300, since that's what I'd typically pay for an economy class ticket to Europe.

As a reminder, you need 80,000 United miles for a one way business class award ticket to India.

That may be as much as 10 % of a full - fare ticket — easily $ 500 or more for business class awards to Europe or Asia.

A round - trip ticket in first class normally costs $ 14,833 but can be booked as an award for 140,000 miles.

As with American Airline ticket awards, United awards are one - way, giving you the option of combining different award types and classes of service to create a round - trip travel itinerary that best suits your needs.

As Alaska has no way of knowing how much you paid for your ticket with American, this fare class award chart is the only way they can be sure someone isn't earning thousands of more miles on Alaska than American would give to their own flyers.

As you can see, even though we don't usually recommend booking a premium class award ticket with Membership Rewards points, there are exceptions.

This is a huge reduction in miles for economy class fares, but it is only fair, as American Airlines also plans to award customer traveling on the cheapest fare (discount economy tickets fare) fewer miles as the ticket is likly to be inexpensive.

Note that the child's ticket must be in the same class of travel as at least one ticketed adult; you can't redeem a first class award and pay 10 % of an unrestricted coach ticket for the lap child.

An award ticket in Lufthansa business class costs the same amount as an award ticket in Austrian business class, and I have to assume a majority of my readers would appreciate knowing with which their miles are better spent.

Another possibility is to do a mixture of awards and paid flights and / or even have one parent and the child travel separately, as my family often does, in order to book premium class award tickets.

You'll need more lead time for premium awards, such as an international first - class ticket, than you will for a domestic economy flight.

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.

If I were to book a 1st class CP flight from HKG to JFK with aadvantage miles as soon as that award space is released on ba.com, and if I then wanted to go from JFK to AUS on the same award ticket, then that award space for AA wouldn't yet be available, correct?

- Miles & More is the mileage program of Lufthansa as well as Austrian and SWISS, and members get more access to premium award tickets - All three airlines are part of Star Alliance, so you can use these miles on any of the 27 partner airlines including US Airways and United (and Miles & More awards can be booked one - way, which US Airways awards can not)- You can book a roundtrip domestic business class award on United and US Airways for 35,000 miles, or a first class ticket for 50,000 miles.

Although I have access as an Amex Platinum cardholder, I didn't even need to show that card - simply having a First class boarding pass was enough - even on a British Airways award ticket.

Normally I write more about Singapore Suites than Singapore First Class, both since most of my Award Booking Clients aspire to fly Singapore Suites on the A380 and because as an award ticket, Singapore Suites is the same cost in KrisFlyer miles as Singapore First CAward Booking Clients aspire to fly Singapore Suites on the A380 and because as an award ticket, Singapore Suites is the same cost in KrisFlyer miles as Singapore First Caward ticket, Singapore Suites is the same cost in KrisFlyer miles as Singapore First Class.

That chart has some real values, such as the ability to fly business class between the US and Europe for 90,000 miles roundtrip instead of the usual 100,000, the ability to pop around Europe with several extra flights thrown in for 115,000 miles in business class instead of 100,000 miles roundtrip plus another 20,000 miles for each and every additional intra-European flight, and the ability to fly to Australia in business class via Asia (not normally allowed on a single award ticket) for an extra 25,000 miles — and make stopovers in Asia, and throw in Australian domestic flights at the same time.

Considering the fact that United does not pass on carrier imposed fuel surcharges for award tickets even on partners, some people prefer to book partners such as Lufthansa with United miles to avoid these charges, even though 70,000 miles is higher than other programs would charge for that flight in business class.