Sentences with phrase «class awards on partner airlines»

While economy award flights are generally competitively priced on both charts, business and first class awards on partner airlines are almost always overpriced.

More expensive first class awards on partner airlines mean I now only consider using them for international business class.

The damage done to First Class awards on partner airlines mirrors that done to the Business Class awards discussed above.

On the whole, Economy Class awards on partner airlines have always been even worse value than Economy Class awards on American's own aircraft — mostly due to the surcharges that partners like British Airways add to award tickets.

Although United devalued their award chart while I was «on the treadmill» racking up points & miles, and business class awards on partner airlines went from 100k to 140k round - trip I still felt it was a good use of points.

Unfortunately, most economy class awards on partner airlines are overpriced.

Not exact matches

> Value: 25,000 miles is enough for a roundtrip Economy Class award less than 1,201 miles each way on Cathay or partners like American Airlines.

And if you think that's bad, First Class awards are going up even more, especially on American Airlines» partners.

While award availability in economy class has generally improved on American Airlines and its partners over the last few years, you will have more options when you can choose any airline to fly to your destination.

SWISS first class awards are not bookable using KrisFlyer Miles and neither are premium economy seats on Star Alliance partner airlines.

Another great redemption option is for first class saver awards on partner airlines.

Finding first class award seats on Cathay Pacific is getting tougher and tougher as the airline keeps limiting the number of available bookings made through partner airlines.

You can book airline awards on Turkish Airlines or Lufthansa via Star Alliance partners such as United, using 70,000 United miles each way in business class or 30,000 miles in economy.

Unfortunately, it's very rare for a partner to have access to international business class award space on Singapore Airlines.

Promo awards, offering 25 - 50 percent off the standard award chart, are available each month for select flights, but most passengers will spend the bulk of their miles on classic awards, which can be used on any partner airline but not on first class cabins.

Finally, those who hope to book some of the most luxurious awards on partner Singapore Airlines will find their attempts thwarted: any award in this carrier's first class cabin on an Airbus A380 or Boeing 777 - 300ER is blocked in the system.

While economy class awards aren't changing much, there will be some significant increases in the cost of business and first class awards on American Airlines» partners — flights on American Airlines have their own award chart.

Earning award miles for travel on flights marketed by partner airlines will be based on a percentage of the flight distance and the fare class purchased.

Alaska Airlines increased the cost for business and first class awards on flights with their partner, Emirates.

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However, if you can snag Fist Class awards on some of American's premium airline partners (Etihad, Cathay Pacific, Qatar etc...) then you should be able to get value out of this offer.

For example, miles can be transferred to ANA Airlines of Japan, and 104,000 ANA miles can be redeemed for a round - trip award flight in business class between the United States and Africa on any of ANA's Star Alliance partners such as Lufthansa, Turkish, Ethiopian, or South African Airlines.

Tickets issued by United but operated on Star Alliance or MileagePlus partners will earn mileage via the new system, but tickets issued by those airlines directly will earn award miles based on distance flown and the purchased fare class.

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.

The miles towards elite qualification awarded on partner marketed flights varies from partner to partner so, to get a general idea of what each airline offers, I selected a few of each airline's more prominent partners and used them to get a range of miles awarded for each fare class.

The changes to the Economy Class award chart on partner airlines is where the most variance is to be seen:

Once enough miles are accumulated, they can be redeemed for Award Tickets and Class Upgrades on Ethiopian Airlines and its partners.

You can book first class award tickets on Japan Airlines through their own Mileage Bank program, Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, or one of their Oneworld partners.

When American Airlines announced the gutting of the AAdvantage program back in June and introduced us to EQD it was only able to tell us that, for flights marketed by partner airlines, EQD would be awarded based on the fare class purchased and the distance fAirlines announced the gutting of the AAdvantage program back in June and introduced us to EQD it was only able to tell us that, for flights marketed by partner airlines, EQD would be awarded based on the fare class purchased and the distance fairlines, EQD would be awarded based on the fare class purchased and the distance flown....

Compare that to the 120,000 United miles it will cost you to fly first class one way from the US to «North Asia» on one of their partner airlines (per their award chart).

For flights taken on primary partner airlines Delta awards EQD at a rate of 25 % of miles flown for the cheapest Business Class fares......

You can now use 85,000 SkyMiles for a one - way business class award on SkyTeam partners such as China Airlines — fun fact, it's a Taiwanese airline — and Korean Air.

Since U.S. SkyTeam partner Delta doesn't allow first - class partner awards, there is much less competition for these seats than you would find on other airlines.

Award mileage accrual for tickets on partner airlines that are not issued by United, and for specialty tickets where United does not know what fare was paid (including unpublished, consolidator, bulk, group and tour tickets), is based on fair class and distance flown, not the cost of the ticket.

From the continental US to Europe in Business class, a one - way journey costs: 62,500 miles on Air France / KLM, 50,000 miles on American Airlines, 60,000 miles on British Airways or a steep 105,000 miles on Emirates and you can't mix and match partners on the same award.

The program is still good for coach and business class awards, good for awards on United, but will not at all be good for partner airline awards in international first class.

Right now, United.com is showing discounted saver level awards on partner airlines in business class to Europe.

However, Singapore Airlines recently announced that they'd be opening up more award space on their «premium» routes to Star Alliance partners, like on the all - business class Newark and Los Angeles to Singapore routes.

While airlines are raising the price of their first class award redemptions (United announced a recent hike from 160,000 to a whopping 280,000 miles for first class from the US to the Middle East on its partners, and Delta will not even allow fliers to cash in miles for international first class seats), there are still some good deals out there.

Negatives: • United miles were devalued on February 1, 2014 so you will need a lot more United miles if you want to redeem them for international awards on partner airlines (especially for first and business class flights).

Taking a page from United's Award Chart Devaluation, AAdvantage awards on American Airlines flights will be cheaper than the above partner awards, because let's be honest — who really wants to fly American Airlines First Class, if they could fly in a Etihad First Class Apartment on the A380, Cathay Pacific First Class or JAL First Class instead?

Japan Airlines First Class is among the best in the world, and is the best value award from the United States in terms of duration and partner product on the new American Airlines oneworld alliance award chart.

- 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.

Delta SkyMiles have long been derisively referred to as «SkyPesos» due to their many limitations, including terrible domestic award availability and the inability to redeem them for first - class seats on partner airlines.