AA Reduced
Mileage Awards require you to not only have American Airlines miles that you want to redeem, but also to have an American Airlines co-branded credit card.
Not exact matches
The chart below shows the round - trip
mileage costs plus the round - trip taxes / fees that are
required when booking
awards with Flying Blue miles.
The 60,000 MileagePlus miles
required for an economy class
award are not far from the 55,000
Mileage Club miles
required by ANA, but ANA is a much better choice for business class if you have the necessary points.
Japan Airlines
Mileage Bank will
require the fewest miles from the East Coast for an economy class
award ticket, at just 39,000
Mileage Bank miles round - trip.
As a result, if you need to connect to one of American Airlines» hub airports, your
award ticket might
require more
mileage.
Japan Airlines
Mileage Bank
requires the fewest miles for a round - trip nonstop economy class
award on American Airlines or Qantas to Sydney or Brisbane at 60,000 miles.
Except for Melbourne, the redemption rates for economy, business, and first class
awards from the U.S. to major cities in eastern Australia will
require the same number of Japan Airlines
Mileage Bank miles.
ANA
Mileage Club will
require a round - trip
award but redemption rates are good and you can book stopovers.
Japan Airlines
Mileage Bank
requires the fewest miles for a round - trip nonstop economy class
award on American Airlines or Qantas to Sydney or Brisbane at 60,000 miles.
Try to avoid this unless you are very close to the
required mileage for an
award, you have found
award space, and you need the flight on a very specific date.
United uses an interactive
award chart that populates the
required mileage based on a set of inputs.
One important aspect of the ANA
Mileage Club program to remember is that they
require round - trip
award bookings.
ANA
Mileage Club often passes on fuel surcharges when you book
award flights, but these surcharges are not
required when booking with their Star Alliance partner United Airlines.
Mileage required to claim these awards is based on the total mileage of th
Mileage required to claim these
awards is based on the total
mileage of th
mileage of the trip.
However, JAL
Mileage Bank uses a distance - based
award chart, so connecting flights and flights from the Midwest and East Coast could increase the number of miles
required.
JAL
Mileage Bank
requires the fewest miles to book a nonstop economy class
award on American Airlines from the East Coast, at just 39,000 miles round - trip.
Once you have done that, you can check Japan Airlines» partner
award chart to see how many
Mileage Bank miles are
required.
To give you an example, Tokyo to Osaka
requires just 5,000
Mileage Club miles to book a one - way
award in low season.
A Star Alliance
award requires 50,000 - 55,000
Mileage Club miles in economy class, depending on the origin of travel.
First class
awards require 150,000
Mileage Club miles during both low and regular seasons and 165,000 miles during high season.
American's co-branded Citi credit card comes with a unique benefit that slashes
mileage required for certain
award tickets.
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.
Customers are
required to request changes to
Mileage Upgrade
Awards at least 72 hours prior to original scheduled departure time of flight being changed.
You can include stopovers when booking
award flights with Japan Airlines miles but, remember, each
mileage tier
requires more miles to book.
The number of miles you fly — you have to add each segment of your journey — will determine the number of
Mileage Bank miles that will be
required for an
award ticket.
As a result, if you need to connect to one of American Airlines» hub airports, your
award ticket might
require more
mileage.
The chart below shows the round - trip
mileage costs plus the round - trip taxes / fees that are
required when booking
awards with Flying Blue miles.
If you utilize the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) program and have a ton of Starpoints, you will still get your best value out of the Japan Airlines
award chart when it comes to the
mileage required.
It's not a huge reduction in the miles
required, but it gives us a new
mileage currency to use at the lowest
award rate on the market.
Another thing to always remember is that many of the airlines with low
mileage requirements
require you to book roundtrip
awards and
require the same amount of miles for oneway trips.
A transfer to
Mileage Plus
requires 25,000 points for a Standard
Award.
United has said that any changes in dates to existing routes will keep the current
award pricing, although other changes would increase the
mileage required:
Save 7,500 with the American Airlines Reduced
Mileage Awards list If your beach trip
requires hopping on a plane, American Airlines has multiple beach destinations on their Reduced
Mileage Awards list for September travel.
Avios is also a distance - based
mileage redemption program, so short - haul
awards require fewer miles than long - haul
awards, with redemptions starting at just 4,500 Avios each way for flights under 600 miles, such as those between New York and Montreal.
The new calendar returns significantly better results, as the
mileage required is now lower on most days, and there are many days when
awards are truly available at the lowest
mileage level of 32,500 one - way.
But in recent years, travel rewards experts have lowered their valuations of AAdvantage miles as the airline began
requiring more miles for
award seats, and made fewer seats available at the lowest
mileage levels.
United then increased the
mileage required to book
award tickets in J and F cabins with its airline partners - up 70 %!
A final thing to consider is if you're just short of the
mileage required for a given
award.
The number of miles
required to redeem an
award shall be that number of miles set by Alaska Airlines when miles are redeemed for the
award, not when
mileage is accrued.
Alaska Airlines reserves the right to establish redemption rules and to set the number of miles
required to obtain
Mileage Plan benefits, including
award travel and upgrades, which are subject to change at Alaska Airlines» sole discretion without notice.