Phase I at Launch introduces
Fare Based Award Redemption Model, Single Shopping Experience for Customer, New Award Inventory Controls, Cash + Miles Award Redemption Product, Award Redemption for OA, Modifications to the automated Award Refund, Redeposit, and Reissue and Exchange Process
Fare Based Award Ticket Redemption (FBATR) project Fast Track Release — Provides limited base functionality to align with the Polaris Chicago release timing
Not exact matches
Over the past three years, Kailey Gilchrist has turned her late mother's recipe for cashew -
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award - winning
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Starring
award - winning actors like Kevin Spacey, Michelle Williams, and Mark Wahlberg, and
based on the real - life kidnapping of billionaire J. Paul Getty's grandson, it's the type of buzzy
fare that will immediately get audience attention, if not
awards attention.
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fared through a $ 50 million expansion grant that the U.S. Department of Education
awarded in 2010.
In general, distance -
based and
fare -
based awards are better for short distance travel.
Because Spirit only offers one class of service and
award travel only covers your
base fare, redeeming miles for a premium cabin is not an option.
The miles you redeem for your
award ticket will always cover the
base fare and will never cover the fees and taxes — you pay those.
If you are having difficulty redeeming your miles, you may also call the Delta customer care centre for help so that they can help you figure out the best
award fares that will be most suitable for your travel itinerary
based on the miles that you have collected.
Stick to ClassicFlight
awards priced according to the
award chart, rather than demand -
based Market
Fare awards
Although ITA doesn't search
award fares directly, you can use the system to gauge
award availability pretty reliably
based on the seat codes the system shows.
If you have reached a MileagePlus Premier membership status, then the
award miles you earn
based on the
fare will be even greater.
Most airlines publish
award charts, but JetBlue
bases the amount of points needed for redemption on the
fare and other factors.
The number of points required for an
Award Flight varies because it is
based on the published
base fare at the time you book.
If I credited all these flights to United, I would earn 40,853 Elite Qualifying Miles but only 6,585
award miles (
base fare of $ 1,317 x 5 miles for MileagePlus general members).
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.
Award flight tip *: Points needed for free flights are
based on
fares and are valued at 1 to 2 cents each.
As with other
fare -
based award redemptions, TrueBlue gives you the worst value when you book your
award when
fares are at their peak.
The catch is that cash ticket prices are
based on four
fare levels, but
award ticket prices are
based on one.
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.
Since the cost of
award tickets are
based on the price of the Value
fare, you'll get the same 2.89 cents per point for any route unless the cheapest Saver level
fare is available.
Waitlists are processed
based on Premier status of the traveler, then
fare class, then time of request.1 New waitlist requests for MileagePlus Upgrade
Awards, Regional Premier Upgrades, and Global Premier Upgrades can be made until 24 hours prior to departure.
The
award miles accrued on codeshare flights are
based on the operating carrier and their equivalent
fare class.
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.
American Airlines (including US Airways) and Alaska Airlines are the two biggest U.S. carriers that still provide loyalty programs that
award miles
based on distance flown, plus a
fare multiplier.
Now that
award miles are
based on price, and because more expensive prices are baked into higher
fare classes, there's no need to add an additional multiplier.
Finding
award sweet spots in a revenue -
based program is not easy, since it typically boils down to finding the lowest
fare.
Currently more expensive
fares earn an extra 25 - 150 % more miles on top of the 100 %
award miles all
fares earn
based on the distance flown.
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.
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.
Instead, the
award points will be calculated
based on the
fare paid.
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.
Ticket price (
base fare plus carrier - imposed fees, excluding any government - imposed taxes and fees) on American - marketed flights — basically using the same methodology as used for the calculation of
award miles earned.
Of the two types of miles earnings -
award miles and premier qualifying miles -
award miles have been an after thought since United, along with the other big 2 U.S. airlines, went revenue -
based, meaning miles accrue not by distance traveled, but rather determined by
fare type and cost of ticket.
In the second half of 2016,
award miles for travel on American marketed flights will be calculated
based on what you pay for your ticket (
base fare plus carrier - imposed fees, excluding any government - imposed taxes and fees) and your elite status; the higher your status, the more you'll earn.
For American marketed flights, where we are
awarding miles according to the
base fare of your ticket.
American Airlines will
award RDM
based on the
fare you book (if you book through AA) while you'll earn miles equal to at least 25 % of the distance flown if you book through BA and credit the flights to AAdvantage.
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 flown....
Award miles and Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQDs) earned
based on ticket price (includes
base fare plus carrier - imposed fees; excludes government - imposed taxes and fees)
Award miles are
based ONLY on the price of your ticket, which includes
base fare and carrier - imposed surcharges but not government taxes.
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awards and some fantastic Business Class
fare from Europe to the US.
Fare bucket: On award charts that offer different redemption rates for the same city pair based on demand, each potential price is one fare buc
Fare bucket: On
award charts that offer different redemption rates for the same city pair
based on demand, each potential price is one
fare buc
fare bucket.
Southwest
awards miles
based on the amount of the
fare multiplied by a figure between six (cheapest
fares) and 12 (business
fares).
Since the number of
award points necessary to book that
award is directly
based on the price of the flight, you'll save points by booking
awards during any of JetBlue's
fare sales.
Industry observers are predicting that other airlines are likely to follow the lead of Southwest and Delta in changing over to «dynamic pricing» for
award trips — i.e., varying the miles or points required
based on supply and demand, just as they do with air
fares.
Travelers on the low
fare may not earn too many miles because United
awards miles
based on the cost of the ticket.
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.
On that date, the number of points needed for
award travel on some routes «will vary
based on destination, time, day of travel, demand,
fare class, and other factors,» the airline said, adding that «many flights... will stay at the current redemption rate.»
Their
award rates are
based on the ticket
fare so there's no standard
award chart for their redemptions.
Instead of having a pretty straight forward distance
based award chart with redemption rates by
fare class for economy, Economy FlexyFlyer, Premium Economy and business class tickets, PAL introduced multiple
award levels for each
fare class: In addition to the Standard Economy
awards, there are no Flex 1, Flex 2, Flex 3 and Flex 4
awards.