Not exact matches
This guide highlights some of the
best award redemption opportunities with United
miles.
But the
best benefit of this card is the 10 percent
redemption rebate program: Every time you book an
award flight using your American Airlines
miles, the airline will give you back 10 percent of the
miles you spent, up to 10,000
miles per calendar year.
Usually, the
best redemption options for AAdvantage
miles are
award flights and seat upgrades on American and its OneWorld partners.
Maximize credit card rewards
miles redemption with partner airlines — On most
award charts you will find «sweet spots» where a particular
award is priced very competitively and offers a
better value.
This guide highlights some of the
best award redemption opportunities with United
miles.
Before you book a flight using Air Canada
miles, it is a
good idea to check the
redemption value for the
award flight.
You'll get the
best redemption value for the
miles earned with your United MileagePlus Club card for
award tickets on United Airlines and its airline partners.
This guide highlights some of the
best award redemption opportunities with American Airline
miles.
The mileage cost to fly one of ANA's partner airlines to Japan aren't as
good redeeming
miles for ANA flights, but the
award chart does have a few solid partner
redemption options.
These flights will generally be an hour or less, so unless your
miles are burning a hole in your pocket it might be
better to redeem an economy ticket and save the extra
miles for another (more exciting)
award redemption.
Are you a fairly seasoned points and
miles earner looking for the
best award redemption possibility and know exactly what program (or programs) you want to redeem points in already?
You'll get the
best redemption value for the
miles earned with your United MileagePlus Club card for
award tickets on United Airlines and its airline partners.
Even though Hawaii is a challenging destination, especially on a set schedule, the potential for very high value
redemptions on intra-Hawaiian flights using United
miles and the chance to stay at one of the
best Hyatt resorts in the world still make this a compelling choice for many
award travelers!
Maximize credit card rewards
miles redemption with partner airlines — On most
award charts you will find «sweet spots» where a particular
award is priced very competitively and offers a
better value.
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Best Redemption Value: The one - way 12,500
mile Delta
awards to Alaska in the summer.
The
good news in this announcement is that Singapore Airlines has decided to drop all fuel and insurance surcharges from their
award redemptions, which should save you quite a bit of cash if you plan to redeem your
miles on or after March 23.
The mileage cost to fly one of ANA's partner airlines to Japan aren't as
good redeeming
miles for ANA flights, but the
award chart does have a few solid partner
redemption options.
This guide highlights some of the
best award redemption opportunities with United
miles.
This guide highlights some of the
best award redemption opportunities with American Airline
miles.
Sometimes
award redemptions offer you really lousy value and it's
better to just pay with a credit card and earn points /
miles on the purchase and on the flight / stay.
Those
miles can be used for
award redemptions on that airline as
well as any partner airlines.
While the number of
miles needed for a Business Class
redemption isn't exactly low (you're
better off trying to get to / from Europe on United's own aircraft which will only cost 115,000 for roundtrip Business Class), the taxes for a premium cabin
award are low for a European route.
The
best business class
redemption is a 90,000 -
mile award seat between the continental U.S. and South America.
7.6 Program Violations: Program violations, fraud or abuse in relation to point credit or reward usage is subject to appropriate administrative and / or legal action by appropriate governmental authorities and by ONYX Hospitality Group including, without limitation, the forfeiture of all point transfers, rewards, or
Award Nights issued pursuant to point
redemptions and any accrued points or
miles in your account, as
well as cancellation of the account and your future participation in the Program.
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.
So when we find a
good redemption value, it's worth considering burning
miles, even if it means using that «evil» next column of the
award chart.
US Airways»
best redemption is their roundtrip
award from the US to North Asia in first class for 120,000
miles.
Arrival
miles are also
good to use when the lowest or saver
redemption rate is not available for an
award flight using another program's
miles, but the cash ticket price is low.
Award redemption will change greatly as the airline is introducing one - way
awards, something offered by other airlines but not previously by Delta, as
well as options to purchase
awards for a combination of
miles and cash.
To show you how
good this sweet spot is for the BA
award chart, United would require 60,000
miles for a roundtrip business class
redemption from DFW to CUN which is 30,000 more than Avios (and twice the price)!
Now Singapore's KrisFlyer loyalty program has published its
award chart for redeeming
miles on Alaska flights, and there is some
good redemption options.
The
best redemption to India with this
award chart would be a round trip business Class
award to India with Cathay Pacific for 120,000 US Airways Dividend
miles.
Best Miles / Points
Redemption: American Airlines flies discounted
award flights to Europe from October 15 - May 15, meaning a round - trip costs only 40,000 AA
miles per person.
On the
redemption side, the
award chart to / from Europe isn't too bad (62,500
miles for a transatlantic one - way in business class) and you get access to much
better availability on AF / KL's own flights that when booking with Delta.
American Airlines is changing how you earn
miles and qualify for elite status, as
well as adjusting some of its
redemption rates for
award flights.
While airlines are raising the price of their first class
award redemptions (United announced a recent hike from 160,000 to a whopping 280,000
miles for first class from the US to the Middle East on its partners, and Delta will not even allow fliers to cash in
miles for international first class seats), there are still some
good deals out there.
In practice these are fairly blunt tools that tell me «1 cent a point for American
miles is a really
good deal» but that I'm not going to spend 2 cents unless there's a very specific scenario — like a few points at the margin to top off an account for an
award I've put on hold — where it makes sense (and in that scenario, my valuation of each point is higher since they're helping me to save with a real
redemption).
What puzzles me, however, is how few people seem to be redeeming
miles for Korean Air first class, which I consider to be one of the
best and most attainable
award redemptions out there.
For the longhaul
awards, you'll almost certainly get the
best value by using airline
miles that allow one way
redemptions with the price based on a region - based
award chart.
Booking
awards:
Miles & More basics are laid out in this post, but the key things to keep in mind are that you can only have two stopovers and two open jaws on round - trip
awards, that you can score deals like 30,000 -
mile economy
awards between select cities in the US and Europe, and that its
award chart is not the
best deal overall, but there are some interesting
redemptions like North America to Hawaii for 40,000
miles round - trip in economy, domestic business - and first - class
awards for 35,000 / 50,000
miles respectively, and business class to Central and Southeast Asia as
well as Australia / New Zealand for 135,000
miles.