Not exact matches
This version
awards 2
miles per dollar on all purchases, making it one of the best
fixed - rate reward cards.
On the other hand, airlines like American and United have
fixed - rate
award charts that make it easier to understand how far your
miles will get you.
The First Milenomics Hedge against no low level
award flights are
fixed value
miles / points.
Without a
fixed value to each
mile the way we know how many
miles a flight will cost is by looking up the
award chart for the mileage program you have
miles with.
But they
fixed that for us in late 2016 when they arbitrarily bumped the Boston flights into the 3,000 +
mile award bucket.
JetBlue doesn't offer a
fixed award chart, but instead the number of
miles required to fly is dependent on the current cash price of the ticket.
For most airlines, the amount of
miles that an
award ticket costs is a
fixed amount from any city in the continental US.
Airlines using mileage - based programs, on the other hand, limit
award seat available and often only offer them at a
fixed price: i.e., 25,000
miles for a domestic trip.
However, British Airways prices
award flights based on the number of
miles flown, rather than a
fixed amount and, on some routes, charges extraordinary taxes and fees.
And you don't earn
fixed miles on
award nights, if you don't change your earning style away from that when redeeming points you'll leave points on the table.
In other words do saver
awards have a
fixed number of
miles required regardless of when they become available?
However, they still don't impose fuel surcharges, still don't have a distance based chart, and still didn't move to a
fixed mile value / revenue based
award chart, so I think we have seen some extreme over-reactions this morning.
That's actually why I suggest the Barclaycard Arrival as one of the top travel credit cards out there, because you earn 2X
miles per $ 1 on all purchases and you can redeem them for travel — pretty much any travel that you can't normally redeem airline
miles or hotel points for, such as rail tickets, car rentals, even the fees and taxes on
award tickets — at a
fixed rate of 1 cent per
mile plus a 5 % mileage refund, and know you're getting a very decent
fixed value or 2.2 % back on your spending.
The portal looks like any other booking site, and since the
miles have a
fixed value, you'll never need to worry about blackout dates or
award restrictions.