The second is that many of us go out of our way to earn points for
aspirational awards in First or Business class.
The aspirational awards in this list may offer up to six times more value.
Not exact matches
The Jaguar X-Type received top honors
in the 2007
Aspirational Luxury Car category of AutoPacific's annual Vehicle Satisfaction
Award (VSA)-- a study that measures satisfaction among vehicle owners.
Most importantly, Delta left untouched the basic deal between frequent flyer programs and their members: you can redeem your miles for «
aspirational»
awards in premium cabins anywhere their partner airlines fly.
And the increases here are nothing like we've seen
in cases involving some of the other top first class cabins like Alaska's overnight nuking / devaluation of Emirates
awards, which drastically altered possibilities for
aspirational redemptions.
If you are a frequent traveler, both the number of airlines and their quality will be important: You will not only be able to earn miles on a large number of flights, you will also have access to some of the best airlines for
aspirational award travel — a trip
in Singapore Airlines or Lufthansa First Class will make any honeymoon very special!
And he writes about what many of us are interested
in: truly
aspirational awards.
However, one of the most
aspirational premium class
award in the world — the Singapore First Class suite on the A380 is not even available on United.
From 22 March 2016 the AAdvantage program will be devaluing and the cost of
award travel will be going up — substantially
in the case of the
aspirational awards like those on Etihad.
A look a the simple things we can all do
in our everyday lives to earn easy miles & points for the
aspirational premium
awards bloggers keep writing about.
Whether you're staying
in a regular room at the InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam or
in an overwater bungalow
in Bora Bora you still only pay 50,000 IHG Rewards points... and that's how it should be, that's the point of having
aspirational awards.
Most people want an
aspirational award — something at a really nice hotel, or at least a good quality hotel
in a nice location.
Thanks to the recent devaluations the
aspirational awards on partner airlines cost considerably more AAdvantage Miles than they did
in the past and, even at 1.72 cents / mile, I can't see the value.
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.
Our stay there wasn't perfect (more about the benefits and drawbacks to truly
aspirational hotel
award bookings
in a later post), but it was grand.
Booking Guru is designed for the busy business traveler that doesn't have time to search for the best deal and for individuals trying to book
aspirational awards but do not know the
ins and outs of the programs.
Two questions: — can you get a one - way AS
award SEA - DCA and what would it cost
in economy and first — I have an
aspirational trip to go to Maldives as well.
I consider a business or first class
award trip on Thai Airways an
aspirational award — better than anything I have seen on US carriers and some of the best
in the world.