The only limit to what airline miles can do to help you travel more for less is your imagination and desire to learn about various
airline award chart sweet spots.
While with many
airlines the award chart sweet spots are found using one airline to fly a partner, Korean Air gives great rates to fly its own wonderful first - class suite from one of its more than a dozen U.S. destinations, with first - class seats for 80,000 miles one way.
Not exact matches
The KrisFlyer Alaska
Airlines award chart has some
sweet spots.
Plus, there are
sweet spots on the Singapore
Airlines award chart.
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.
Singapore
Airlines has a handful of other
sweet spots in their
award chart, and flights on United within the U.S. in business or first class is one of them.
The distance - based
award chart can be great for short - haul flights and
sweet - spot redemptions on partner
airlines.
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.
Despite the program's 2016 devaluation, there are still some
sweet spots in American
Airlines's
award charts.
As shown on their Star Alliance partner
award chart, flights from North America to Europe can be booked as low as 55,000 miles, but partner
airlines are not given the 15 % discount and the redemption rates are higher, so the deal is not to
sweet (though still decent).
For instance, there are some real
sweet spots in the JAL and Asiana
award charts — and only SPG can transfer to those
airlines.
Though it may not seem logical to transfer your points to an Asian carrier to book a flight within the U.S., one
sweet spot of the Singapore
Airlines award chart is the value for U.S. domestic flights in the lower 48 states and between the mainland U.S. and Hawaii.
But it's even better when you make the most of
award chart sweet spots and spend fewer miles than you would with other
airlines.
This is one of the best
sweet spots on the Alaska
Airlines award chart.
We'll talk about the new
award chart, some
sweet spots, which
airlines have fuel surcharges, online bookings, and stopovers.
However, there's one
sweet spot on the KrisFlyer
chart map, and that is the A380 flight that Singapore
Airlines operates from Frankfurt to New York's JFK Airport, which costs 140,000 miles for a roundtrip standard
award in a First Class Suite.
You can still book RTW trips in 2017, but now the best way is as a series of one way
awards across many different programs to take advantage of
sweet spots on each
airline's
award chart.