Not exact matches
If you have to pay high fees or
fuel surcharges on an economy or short - haul flight, you should be especially cautious
about using points
for that redemption.
in a «regular» first class seat on a 777 between San Francisco and Hong Kong, you can save
about $ 250 in
fuel surcharges (the first screenshot shows YQ
for 2 people) and still have 4 hours to play in a suite between Hong Kong and Singapore, because that route is served by A380.
Airport taxes and
fuel surcharges would add a few hundred dollars to the bill, but we are talking
about visiting 4 fascinating cities
for about the same miles as a round trip.
According to media reports, airlines dropping
fuel surcharges include Qatar Airways, Japan Air Lines and Cebu Pacific which boasted
about this on its website («We're happy to announce that there will no longer be any
fuel surcharge for all flights»).
I couldn't care less
about the Air Canada reward chart, because Aeroplan imposes
fuel surcharges for awards tickets on Air Canada, while they don't
for award tickets on their Star Alliance partners.
While this post can serve as a bit of a reference
for you, you will also find an even more extensive post
about airline alliances,
fuel surcharges, and frequent flyer miles on Drew's site.
Really though all of this talk
about fuel surcharges just reiterates my affinity
for American Airline miles and United Miles.
But
for frequent flyers they are a pain because some airlines — most notably European and Asian frequent flyer programs, but also a handful of North American programs (Aeroplan on
about half of its Star Alliance partners, American predominantly on British Airways, and Delta on several partners)-- add
fuel surcharges onto award tickets.
That's something we tend to be picky
about since American Airlines and United are such good mileage programs
for avoiding
fuel surcharges,
Yes,
fuel surcharges are high, but we like the British Airways business class product (my husband likes it
about as much as the old Lufthansa first class, see Lufthansa First Class Review) we'll get the best value
for our purposes here since we prefer international travel in business or first class.
No
fuel surcharges on Qantas, but the tax
for a short haul flight (4500 points) is
about $ 14.
We really value United Miles more than any other, (awesome rules
for award tickets and don't have to worry
about fuel surcharges) and SPG's points transfer to United at a 2:1 ratio, not awesome compared to Ink Bold's 1:1 ratio with United.
The real reason United miles are so lovable
for wanderlusters is because you can do so many things or rather go so many places with their miles, and you can do it all without worrying
about those
fuel surcharges mentioned above.