Sentences with phrase «airline currency»

Considering the cheapest we see most airline currencies sold for is over 1.7 cents / mile this is a remarkably good deal.

Starpoints transfer over to American Airlines AAdvantage at a ratio of 1:1 (like they do for the majority of airline currencies) and, as always, the best value is to be had by transferring Starpoints over in...

If you have no apparent, immediate need for the AAdvantage Miles — Starpoints can be converted into a lot of other airline currencies so it's a more useful holding currency than AAdvantage miles.

United is simply abdicating its position as America's most coveted airline currency, and this decision is going to have unforeseen consequences throughout the industry.

Alaska Mileage Plan miles are one of the last airline currencies that I genuinely consider buying every time a decent sale comes around and that's down to how much value I know I can get out of them.

As it's owned by IAG, Aer Lingus will undoubtably eventually join the oneworld alliance but, until that happens the main airline currencies you can use for travel on Aer Lingus are United Miles & British Airways Avios.

I covered these options in depth back in November, but they allow you to redeem Marriott Rewards points for a seven - night (or five - night) hotel stay plus a set amount of points or miles in your chosen airline currency.

Avianca LifeMiles is a valuable airline currency for the right redemptions, but the miles were moderately challenging to earn.

Virgin Atlantic miles aren't the most celebrated airline currency, mainly because of the fuel surcharges imposed on most award flights.

I agree Delta miles aren't worth that much, but I do think SPG has some partner airline currencies which are worth at least that much.

Starpoints transfer over to American Airlines AAdvantage at a ratio of 1:1 (like they do for the majority of airline currencies) and, as always, the best value is to be had by transferring Starpoints over in multiples of 20,000.

But if you're going to transfer Starpoints to another airline currency, there's usually easier ways to rack up those specific currencies directly.

Even if I was to convert the Starpoints to airlines miles (I'll explain how in a moment) the miles would still be costing me 1.82 cents each — that's more than I value any airline currency at.

Up until last year that would have been a reasonable deal for an airline currency like American's but their recent spate of devaluations has seen the value of AAdvantage Miles plummet.