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Recently the The Enhanced Business Platinum ® Card from American Express introduced a 50 % rebate on airline redemptions when using points to buy paid tickets.

Not exact matches

Limited options for redemption — When you convert your HHonors points to airline miles, they lose a big chunk of their value.

The best use for FlexPoints is redemption of airline tickets, but only when used through US Bank's Orbitz portal.

It's great to have choices when it comes to redemption options, so having the ability to transfer miles earned on your card to airline partners is positive in that respect.

When comparing airline cards, keep an eye on the fine print for restrictive redemption policies, stingy rewards, or miles with a low redemption value.

Remember that when you use your SkyMiles towards flights on Delta or any of their partner airlines the redemption values can vary.

Etihad Airlines allows you to purchase up to 25 % of the miles needed for a reward when making a redemption.

With that said, here are our estimates for what miles and points in major U.S. airline and hotel programs are worth for travelers willing to be flexible when making a redemption.

Because you take at a 29 % decrease (or 41 % for Japan Airlines) in the number of miles when you transfer, this will not always be the best redemption option.

If you have the Citi Prestige card, then the points are worth 1.33 cents per point when redeeming for travel and 1.6 cents for American Airlines redemption's.

It has more airline transfer partners, but our opinion is that it's not as flexible when it comes to redemption options.

And oddly enough, the needlessly complicated 5 - tier Delta award chart (which of course doesn't actually exist, wink, wink) means that when lowest - level redemptions aren't available on any airline and you're considering a more expensive award, Delta may actually be cheaper than the others thanks to all their intermediate award tiers.

Combined with the flexible routing rules outlined above, this makes MileagePlus one of the most generous airline loyalty programs when it comes to award redemption.

Yes, the seats aren't always guaranteed to be available, but when they are, the standard cost for a transcontinental flight with airlines that use a standard chart - based redemption system is only 25,000 points.

When it comes to redeeming points with Chase, you can either book through their portal (which gives you an ok, but not great redemption value), or (this is my favorite part) transfer your points 1:1 to their partner airlines and hotels.

Another benefit that this card touted was a 1.6 cent redemption for points on American Airlines when booked through the Citi Travel Rewards Center.

Ultimate Rewards points issued by a variety of Chase - branded cards address this problem by letting you accumulate one generic point and transfer it to a variety of airline, hotel, and rail partners only when you need to make a specific redemption.

If you live on the West Coast, don't forget that 24,000 Singapore KrisFlyer miles provide a redemption rate that is just a bit better when flying Alaska Airlines.

When it comes to miles, the redemption has a fixed - value, with each airline setting its own mileage requirements.

Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Premier Credit Card Among airline - branded cards, Southwest's rises to the top when it comes to point value thanks to the carrier's low redemption requirements for award seats.

When an airline allows a stopover you can often make up for a higher redemption requirement by going with airline and utilizing a stopover.

When these routes begin next summer, they represent a significant increase in long - haul capacity for the airline and many more redemption opportunities for fliers.

Typically when you find out an airline is «revamping» its frequent flyer program, this news comes with a host of devaluations, more restrictions on routing, and maybe a redemption or two that gets a little bit better.

During the financial crisis when airlines weren't doing well, they introduced additional fees on award redemptions called fuel surcharges.

Deals like Europe to the Middle East for $ 1,538.50 and the US to Tokyo for $ 2,172 are exceptionally good value when booked on airlines of the caliber of Etihad and JAL (even after you factor in taxes and fees) and even some of the American Airlines redemptions don't look too bad considering the good Business Class seats the airlineairlines of the caliber of Etihad and JAL (even after you factor in taxes and fees) and even some of the American Airlines redemptions don't look too bad considering the good Business Class seats the airlineAirlines redemptions don't look too bad considering the good Business Class seats the airline offers.

While the higher redemptions are usually a way to get gutted for miles, the redemptions that fall on the lower end of these revenue - based programs can be extraordinarily low when compared to region - based programs, such as United and American Airlines.

While you can redeem your Chase Ultimate Rewards points for cash back statement credits or gift cards for a 1 % redemption rate, the «gold standard» for a credit card rewards program, the points are most valuable when redeemed for travel rewards using the Chase Ultimate Rewards portal or transferring them to one of the participating hotel or airline partners on a 1:1 basis, allowing you to book directly from the carrier or hotel.

But when an airline sets its redemption levels higher, there are often alternatives.

SPG Starpoints give you great flexibility when it comes to redemption; they're also one of the few hotel currencies that are easily and efficiently converted into airline miles.

However, American doesn't operate flights to India, which makes it not possible to take advantage of this lower redemption levels (when compared to awards with Etihad Airlines)

When redeeming Points online, via phone or the mobile app for Hotel Reward Stays or exchanging Hilton Honors Points for airline miles through Reward Exchange, Points will be deducted from the Member's account automatically upon Member completing the redemption transaction.

It has more airline transfer partners, but our opinion is that it's not as flexible when it comes to redemption options.

Let's say you're traveling during the busy holiday season when airlines are less likely to put mileage redemption seats on the market because they know people will buy those tickets anyway.

Travelers used to be able to get some very nice redemptions on partner airlines (like Cathay Pacific First Class to Asia for just 62,500 miles or Etihad Business Class from Europe to the Middle East for just 30,000 miles) but those all went away when American overtly devalued the AAdvantage program in March this year (announced this time last year).

The SPG Amex card has strong redemption value and flexibility with 30 airline transfer partners and a 5,000 miles bonus when you transfer 20,000 points to an airline.

American Airlines puts many of its economy class award redemptions on sale for travel during off - peak times of year when demand slows.

Similar to the previous redemption option, flying from the east coast or the midwest can get you a solid deal when using Japan Airlines miles.

From a customer point of view this new partnership could open up some nice redemption options providing the airlines aren't too conservative when they agree on award costs.

Flying Blue offers some great redemption rates for economy, which means that when you're able to find economy promo awards, it's probably offering you one of the best rates you'd be able to find out of any airline.

This is why airline miles are typically assigned lower values when no specific redemption is in mind.

Partner award chart: When an airline has one award chart for awards on its own flights and another award chart governing the use of its miles on other airlines available for redemptions.

70,000 to Japan in economy isn't terrible but considering how amazing the redemptions on ANA, JAL, Alaskan Airline miles can be to get to Japan, I would rather not go with Avianca when getting to Japan.

Even when compared to airlines like ANA, which has some pretty unbelievably low redemptions to Europe and the Middle East, economy redemptions for Flying Blue are still more valuable with this itinerary!

Still, you can get away with little to no surcharges when booking certain airlines with ANA and Aeroplan (which both allow stopovers), so I think American Express offers more lucrative redemption possibilities for Star Alliance partners.

An example of this can be seen when comparing the redemption chart for Malaysia Airlines against the chart for OneWorld partners.A Zone 5 Business Redemption is 132,000 points on a partner airline, whereas the best that can be achieved on Malaysia Airlines is 150,0redemption chart for Malaysia Airlines against the chart for OneWorld partners.A Zone 5 Business Redemption is 132,000 points on a partner airline, whereas the best that can be achieved on Malaysia Airlines is 150,0Redemption is 132,000 points on a partner airline, whereas the best that can be achieved on Malaysia Airlines is 150,000 points.

CreditCards.com research found in most cases, airline credit card rewards are worth twice — if not three times — as much when put toward flights or other travel redemption options.

The Booking Guru offers an Award Booking Serve because often times when booking an award ticket, an airline agent will try to sell you award space on their airline and will fail to look at partner redemption opportunities which usually cost fewer miles.

That takes into account the wide variety of redemption options available to you, whether transferring them directly to airline and hotel partners or using them as a credit when booking through the Membership Rewards Travel portal.

Typically when people think of award redemptions they think of the three major alliances, and the airlines that belong to them, since that's where most award availability is.

You left out the grandfathered USAirways - American Airlines Mastercard from BarclayCard USA (which I still hold because they give you up to 10,000 miles back when you redeem miles (10 % of the redemption) among other benefits.