One of the most appealing benefits is the extra
United award seat availability you get access to, letting you book seats that non-cardholders can't.
Not exact matches
Redeem $ 1 in TravelBank cash for $ 1 toward a
United ticket — no fussing with
award seat availability or blackout dates.
Since
United is the only US - based carrier in Star Alliance, you will have the best chance to find
award seat availability for your area with this airline.
United has made cuts there, as well, making it harder for general members to access last -
seat availability, prevent their miles from expiring, and change their
award bookings with minimal fees.
Or you could get a
United first - class
award seat, which is going to cost you 160,000 miles per roundtrip but has better
availability.
In general,
award availability to Florence from the U.S. is good when using American and
United miles, but there are fewer
seats available when booking with Delta miles.
As stated,
award availability for (saver) business class to New Zealand on
United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with business class
seats between the US and Australia / New Zealand.
United Airlines may not have many cabins that one would call aspirational (The latest Polaris
seats on the 777 - 300ER are nice but there's hardly any of them in service) but it offers far better
award availability than American Airlines and requires considerably fewer miles for premium cabin
awards than Delta — that makes it a valuable transfer option to have.
All airlines except
United increased
award seat availability last year.
While a route serviced by an A350 should be an aircraft where premium
award seats can be made available, it's likely that
availability for business class
seats will be scarce so I wouldn't rely on booking these
seats with partners like
United.
While
United tends to make the most
seats available for the lowest priced
awards, American AAdvantage members have the option of using Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines flights which often have generous
availability.
This week we already learned that the combined
United - Continental frequent flyer program will have expiring miles and that last
seat availability for standard (additional miles)
awards would be restricted to elites and credit card holders, plus that cardholders who are elites would be eligible for complimentary upgrades on domestic coach
awards.
Availability is unfortunately always going to be an issue with
award seats — that's the constraint in the system I try to preach flexibility above all else, so you usually can come by the Saver Level
seats needed to book the 35k Singapore miles on
United flights.
Dear Tracey,
United frequent flier miles can be a valuable commodity, because it is easy to search for
award availability on
United's website and because
United tends to have more
award seats available than its competitors.
He also said that
United plans to increase the
availability of Saver
award seats by more than 10 percent in domestic and Canadian markets.
If you use
United MileagePlus as your primary airline rewards program, it can even be worth signing up for one of their co-branded credit cards just for access to last -
seat «Standard» - level
award availability, even if you never spend a dollar on the card, since access to those Standard
awards can increase the value of Ultimate Rewards points transferred in from Chase.