Economy redemptions cost just 30,000 Flying Blue miles for a round - trip flight operated by a SkyTeam partner Delta Air Lines.
Economy redemptions cost just 30,000 Flying Blue miles for a round - trip flight operated by a SkyTeam partner Delta Air Lines.
Not exact matches
Considering this
redemption would only
cost 12,500 Avios each way for
economy tickets, you can get some great value out of your miles on this route!
HNL
redemptions cost 37,500 miles in
Economy or 45,000 miles in Business Class.
If you're not going quite that far and just heading to Asia 2, you won't save any miles for those premium cabin
redemptions, and it will actually
cost you more in
economy!
The most interesting point my example above illustrates is that they appear to use a formula to weight mixed - cabin
redemptions, such that adding short - haul
economy legs radically reduces the total
cost in Iberia Avios, sometimes below the
cost in British Airways Avios.
Charts make it easier to determine the
cost of an award
redemption: for example, knowing that you'll need 60,000 miles for a roundtrip
economy ticket from the U.S. to Europe.
Economy class
redemptions cost just 50,000 Flying Blue miles for a round - trip flight operated by a mix of SkyTeam partners, such as Delta, Air France or KLM.
Do note that Flying Blue's best award
redemptions tend to be in
economy class vs business and offer low rates to places like Hawaii, Central and South America, and even Europe at
costs less than many of their partner airlines included Alaska or Delta.
Considering this
redemption would only
cost 12,500 Avios each way for
economy tickets, you can get some great value out of your miles on this route!
Redemption of miles for
economy class ticket usually yields less value than business class (in a lot of cases, business class ticket usually has three to four times cash value, but only
costs twice amount of miles).
United did not touch the
cost of an
economy class award
redemption in the U.S., which remains at 25,000 miles, and it continues to offer one - way award
redemptions, unlike some other majors.
Yesterday, while most people's attention was focused on the addition of Premium
Economy redemptions to the Singapore Airlines award chart (more on that in a separate post), the airline slipped in a change to the charts in a way that increased the
cost of Premium Cabin Saver Awards to certain European cities.
If American doesn't alter the
cost of
Economy or Business Class awards then, depending on how Premium
Economy is squeezed in, there could be some very good value
redemptions to be had (Premium
Economy if the premium over
Economy Class is low or Business Class if the premium over PE is low... it will be one or the other).
Two paid
economy New York - London roundtrip in May
cost $ 1,130, while a Travel Together Ticket
redemption would
cost 26,000 Avios and $ 815, or just about 1.21 cents per Avios.
That award chart is particularly valuable for premium cabin
redemptions, since business class and first class awards
cost 2 and 3 times the
cost of
economy, respectively, instead of the 3 and 4 times charged on the standard Executive Club award chart.
Virgin Atlantic recently put though a series of changes to its Flying Club rewards program and, while a few of the changes were negative, there was one big positive change that I was very happy to see — the
cost of Premium
Economy redemptions fell significantly.
It
costs only 12,500 Avios points each way in
economy, which is one of the best
redemption options if you're already in South America.
And it's also a great
redemption since a one - way
economy could
cost you $ 500 +.
But it's not nearly enough to just allocate them some kind of uniform valuation, as some miles may be very valuable for a given type of
redemption (e.g. Avios for short - haul
economy awards) and quite a poor value for other types of
redemptions (for Avios, ultra long - haul in a premium cabin with high mileage
cost and often high fuel surcharges).
Some good Flying Blue
redemptions include travel in
economy class between the continental U.S. and Hawaii, which
costs just 30,000 miles with Flying Blue compared to 40,000 miles on Delta.
One - way
redemptions for short flights of 500 kilometers or less on partner airlines
cost only 6,000 LAN kilometers (3,728 miles) for
economy.
The greatest
redemption of the Flying Blue program are USA to Hawaii flight, which only
cost 15,000 miles for an
Economy Class ticket (even for a ten hour flight from the East Coast to Hawaii).
Another sweet spot is an
Economy award
redemption from London to the USA East Coast (New York, Washington, Baltimore, and Boston) which only
costs 26,000 Avios for the round trip in off - peak periods (but these flights come with heavy taxes making them not so attractive after all).