Sentences with phrase «first class awards between»

While the award costs for travel in first class from the US to Asia 2 went up significantly, the cost of first class awards between the US and Asia 1 (which includes Japan and Korea) didn't go up quite as drastically.
One of the sweet spot in the current award chart is the business / first class awards between India and South Pacific.
I called up American Airlines and booked the JAL First Class awards between London and Tokyo at a cost of 90,000 AAdvantage Miles & $ 239.80 per person:
A one - way First Class award between Ft. Lauderdale and Dubai will cost 150,000 miles while a one - way Business Class award will set you back 82,500 miles.
Effective, Mar 22, 2016 you would need 115K AA miles for a one way first class award between India and USA instead of 90,000 AA miles.
The fact that a roundtrip Cathay Pacific first class award between the US and Asia is going up by 85,000 miles overnight is sort of insane to me.
Fares are as low as around $ 5550 each way, and since a one way first class award between Abu Dhabi and Sydney is 60,000 AAdvantage miles with ~ $ 80 in taxes and phone booking fee, that's over 9 cents per mile in nominal value — a great value redemption if you're looking to fly first class between Australia and the Middle East.
A Japan Airlines first class award between the US and Japan will run you 80,000 miles one - way in first class, which is still a reasonably good value, in my opinion.

Not exact matches

A first class one - way award on Thai Airways between Sydney, Australia, and Hong Kong, including an overnight in Bangkok, can be booked for as little as 40,000 miles.
An inexpensive way to get a taste of Qatar's business or first class is with an award between the Middle East and Asia 1 (Japan or Korea).
Availability in the other direction (Auckland to Doha) is pretty good do and, in this case, there are actually 4 Business Class awards available on the very first Qatar Airways non-stop flight between Auckland and Doha:
Flights between L.A. and Sydney feature a 777 - 300ER with excellent configuration in both first and business class cabins, but premium class seats on this route are virtually impossible to get at saver award rates.
The week I'm prepared to travel (10 — 16 December 2016) there is no First Class award availability between London and Abu Dhabi («Guest First» has to show as available if you are to book Etihad First Class with AAdvantage Miles):
The relationship between Alaska and Emirates has been strained for a long time — when it comes to first class award travel.
Right at the end of last month American Airlines opened up a surprising amount of Business Class award space for flights between the US and various European cities - award space which, by and large, is still available - and now some First Class award space appears to have opened up as well.
Let's try to find a first class award seat on American between New York and Sao Paulo, Brazil sometime in May.
Earn 500 award miles per Business class segment or 750 award miles per First class segment on Acela Express trains (no connecting flight required) between New York's Penn Station and the following train stations: Boston's South Station, MA; Boston's Back Bay Station, MA; Boston's Route 128 Station, MA; Washington D.C.. For reservations for the Acela Express markets listed above, call Amtrak at 1 -800-USA-RAIL (1-800-872-7245) and be sure to provide your MileagePlus number to receive award mileage credit.
A one - way Business Class award between North America and Europe costs 50,000 miles while a First Class award for the same trip costs 62,500 miles....
For the past few years two of the big «sweet spots» in the AAdvantage program have been the cost of Business and First Class award tickets, on Etihad, for travel between Europe and the Middle East.
One of the worst awards is first class between the U.S. and Australia for 300,000 miles.
But the most expensive award ticket is for first class between Africa and South America.
This means that there can be some great value to be had if you select the right redemption options — like Cathay Pacific in Business or First Class between Europe and Asia (not a hard award to find), LAN Business Class from the US to South American and Korean Air Business Class between the US and Asia.
My aim is to book a Qatar Airways Business Class award, on their A380 aircraft, between Europe and the Middle East and then to return back to Europe in First Class (again on an Airbus A380).
One - way Business Class awards between Europe and the Middle East will cost 42,500 AAdvantage Miles (an increase of 42 %) and First Class awards will cost 62,500 (an increase of 56 %).
At 80,000 miles for a one - way First Class ticket, and 62,500 miles for a one - way Business Class ticket between Seoul and New York this could be one of the better award redemptions out there.
The 56.3 % increase in miles needed for a First Class redemption between Europe and the Middle East / Indian Subcontinent is a hammer blow to anyone wanting to book Etihad's First Class cabin and, at 230,000 AAdvantage miles for a round trip First Class award to Australia on Qatar Airways, that award just became a whole lot harder to achieve.
When I have a sizeable rewards balance I also transfer over to the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer program (that's how I booked Joanna and I into Singapore Airlines Suites between Hong Kong and Singapore and the Singapore and London) and I always keep an eye out for American Airlines saver awards just in case there's an opportunity to transfer Membership Rewards points over to Etihad and book American Business or First Class at a favorable rate.
Japan Airlines has what it calls «Limited Days of the Week» awards for first class flights between the U.S. and Japan.
For example, a one - way first class award on Lufthansa between the U.S. and Europe would cost 110,000 United miles and few fees.
Includes: Some great Business Class fares between the UK and the US, details of amazing American Airlines Business Class award availability, the latest Amex travel offers you should be signing up for (if targeted), news of the first major 3Q hotel promotion and a lot more.
The airline has opened up a surprising number of Business Class Miles SAAver award seats for travel between the US and Europe (both directions) in the first 5 months of 2017.
As LifeMiles has, as of yesterday, reinstated the ability to book Lufthansa First Class awards, the stand out deal appears to be 87,000 LifeMiles between North American and Europe.
There is some amazing value to be had out of those options — especially Cathay Pacific in First Class between Europe and Asia (not a hard award to find) and Korean Air Business Class from $ 2,216.
If you earn most of your miles from flying in Business Class / First Class then there's a good chance that the new higher mileage earning rates will mostly offset any increases in award costs (discounted Business Class will now earns 50 % more miles while, where award costs have gone up they've done so by between 6 % and 72 %)
First class awards on Garuda Indonesia usually cost 180,000 Garuda Miles (or Citi ThankYou Points) for a flight between London (LHR) and Jakarta (CGK), but the promo rate is 95,000 miles.
Pay attention to the differences in class (economy, business, first, etc.) and to the differences between standard and saver awards (as you'll be trying to go for the saver awards).
Flying between the US and Australia in first class on a Star Alliance award will now require 25 % more miles.
A roundtrip award on Emirates first class between JFK and Milan (MPX) will require 217,500 miles plus ~ $ 1,440 in fees.
For awards between USA and India, First class award seekers will have to shell out a lot more miles.
For awards between USA and India, First class award seekers will have to shell out...
More family travel for less money Since my days of flying back and forth between graduate school in New York and seeing friends and family in Texas, to learning how to keep my two young girls connected to their family members spread around the country, I've spent much of the past decade learning the secrets of leveraging rewards earning credit cards, points promotions, airline award charts, travel sales, and otherwise very mundane everyday life tasks and expenses to enable our family to literally travel around the world, sometimes in suites and in first class, for a very greatly reduced cost.
They regularly release one first class award seat on their Airbus 380 flights between Singapore and Sydney / Melbourne.
I would aim for flying ANA, though they only typically release first class award space between late January and mid March for most routes, at least in advance.
They had outrageously low award rates for travel in first class on Star Alliance carriers (100,000 miles for roundtrip first class between the US and Europe and 120,000 miles for roundtrip first class between the US and Asia).
For example, awards between North America and most of Asia cost only 120,000 miles in first class, and they allowed one to route either via the Pacific or the Atlantic (or one in each direction), with two stopovers enroute.
Similar to the option between Houston and Moscow, this is another award redemption that has become a great value since Singapore started opening up saver award space in their new first class.
Meanwhile, if you're redeeming from JAL, a round - trip first - class award between New York and Milan will run you just 100,000 miles round - trip.
The first - class award chart was certainly the hardest - hit, with prices increasing between 20 - 63 %.
Right now, Business Class and First Class space on American Airlines» A321T service between New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco has some periods of time with very regular award space.
Qantas first class award space between Australia and the US is almost impossibly difficult to come by to begin with, and is tougher on AAdvantage miles when others have a three week head start.
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