Sentences with phrase «availability of award flights»

I had wisely accumulated miles in Southwest, an airline that offers very reasonable availability of award flights.

Not exact matches

While several airlines, including United, Japan Airlines, and All Nippon Airways, offer direct flights between New York and Tokyo, Korean Air offers the most frequent flyer award availability — useful for us, since we only had a little bit of schedule flexibility — and is a transfer partner of Chase, whose points we had already started to earn.

Airline credit cards may offer an equivalent cash value of from 1 to 5 cents per mile you earn, but it's difficult to consistently quantify the value because award flights and availability are dynamic - always changing based on demand, flight prices, routes and other factors.

Availability can be tough to find for many of these routes, but Air New Zealand domestic and Australia flights have decent award aAvailability can be tough to find for many of these routes, but Air New Zealand domestic and Australia flights have decent award availabilityavailability.

If an airline is said to have «good award seat availability» that means that each flight has a large number of seats available to those looking to book with miles.

As flights fill up, or don't fill up, the availability and cost of award seats can fluctuate.

Option # 5: Look for awards travel on partner airlines; some of them may end up being cheaper than flights on Delta, and you may find better availability.

If Delta has award availability on a flight you want, this fee probably shouldn't be enough to stop you from transferring your miles and booking the ticket, but it's something to be aware of nonetheless.

Only after I'd taken note of the availability for each separate flight did I then string together a multi-city award on United's website to create the award as shown above.

Simply looking at the United award chart, things are already looking up: it takes just 40,000 miles each way on flights with Economy Saver availability, adding up to a total requirement of 80,000 miles.

The FlexPerks card is a great backup for booking paid flights when either the cost or availability of awards prevents you from using traditional airline miles.

If you can find award availability space on any specific flight, you can use that as part of your itinerary

If availability for this flight were to dry up between now and when Elena books, looking at flights to JFK, MIA, DFW or ORD instead of all the way to MSP would again be a good option, opting to pay a very small amount for a domestic one - way as opposed to skipping out on the transatlantic award altogether.

While I'm not holding my breath that these awards will be anywhere near as generous or available as, say, American's off - peak flights to Europe, even an expansion of regular Saver availability would be excellent.

Here we had a stroke of luck, depending on how you look at it: while the direct service flight from Los Angeles did not show availability for a Business Class or First Class Saver Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was availAward on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was availaward connecting through San Francisco was available.

Not just for this week, not just for next month... but many flights have multiple seats of award availability off and on throughout the entire next year.

In reality, I'd been looking at award availability for both trips concurrently, knowing that award flights to Anchorage may be difficult to find at the very height of Alaska's short annual window of pleasant weather.

They also give you the option of being «waitlisted» on certain flights if there is a possibility of award availability opening up.

A word of warning about how Delta's award booking engine works: if any flight segment is lacking Low level availability, the overall miles cost will be increased.

Availability can be tough to find, but for one of the best award flight deals, it's definitely worth the patience!

Speaking of award availability I seem to be seeing 5 seats available in Economy and 2 in Business for most flights.

Award availability for flights is subject to the area of the country you are in and where you are going.

Option # 5: Look for awards travel on partner airlines; some of them may end up being cheaper than flights on Delta, and you may find better availability.

If Delta has award availability on a flight you want, this fee probably shouldn't be enough to stop you from transferring your miles and booking the ticket, but it's something to be aware of nonetheless.

As flights fill up, or don't fill up, the availability and cost of award seats can fluctuate.

A lot of people prefer the in - air product of Jet Blue over Southwest for longer flights since it has tv's, free wifi, more leg room, business / first class «Mint» cabins, allows you to pick your seat, etc. but both airlines constantly rate among the best for award availability, making them both solid choices for getting around the country, in terms of finding award seats.

A 2014 study ranked US Airways 24th out of 25 airlines worldwide for lowest - level award availability, and found that award flights on US Airways required more miles on average than any other major U.S. or Canadian airline.

If you like to travel during peak travel times, waiting until a couple of weeks or months before your travel date is a recipe for not finding the award flights or hotel nights that you want since availability is limited.

In accumulating mileage, members may not rely upon the continued availability of any award or award level, and members may not be able to obtain awards for all destinations or flights.

In the entire month of October, I found one day with availability on the LAX — JFK non-stop flight at the saver award level.

They don't let you book First Class awards with partners at all, they rarely have low - level award availability (and I think this might get worse after the recent devaluation), you can only redeem round trip flights (one - ways are coming in 2015 though), and in general their miles are much harder to use than those of other programs.

Award availability is generally good using any of the three major airline alliances, but the Star Alliance and oneworld often have more award flights than SkyAward availability is generally good using any of the three major airline alliances, but the Star Alliance and oneworld often have more award flights than Skyaward flights than SkyTeam.

It's also probably worth noting that, if you're happy to take connecting flights, the award availability looks even better (although some of the aircraft may not be the greatest on the short - haul flights).

I expect United to be quite tight with premium cabin award availability on this flight until they get a better idea of what load factors are going to be like....

As I often suggest travelers take «positioning flights» around Europe (and the US) to make the most of any great Business Class fares that come around or to make the most of award availability that appears somewhere that isn't your home airport, I thought I'd share my experience of doing just that at Zurich airport.

Airlines release a limited number of award seats per flight, so if you have a large family and all want to travel together, it may not be possible to find enough award availability.

On many of United's premium routes (routes that you may wish to burn miles on) award availability is scarce and you simply won't be able to find the flights you want on dates that work for you — miles aren't very flexible like that as you're at the mercy of the airlines.

When I searched for availability from the US to Auckland with United on Aeroplan's website, I found a lot of United award availability for flights 5 + months out and decent availability for flights only a couple of months out but it wasn't the kind of availability I liked.

Because it's not that rare to find Business Class flights between the US and London coming in at under $ 2,000 and, on top of that, if you're booking an award you still have the issue of finding availability... and that hasn't been easy in recent years.

(I didn't do too much searching, since I was on a mission to book my specific flight, but presumably, you'd have more luck searching all Avios award availability, through more of the partners — e.g. Aer Lingus, BA, and Iberia.)

I recommend checking ITA Flight Matrix and calling the airline, after you've found award availability, to ask for an estimate of the fuel surcharges.

Availability can be tough to find for many of these routes, but Air New Zealand domestic and Australia flights have decent award aAvailability can be tough to find for many of these routes, but Air New Zealand domestic and Australia flights have decent award availabilityavailability.

My girlfriend Ashlee's lack of work vacation days put us in a pinch to find award availability... [Continue reading] about How I Saved Big Dollars Booking Delta Flights With Korean Air

Note that there are also strict booking policies on these awards that include no refund of your miles if you cancel the flight, limited award seat availability on each flight, booking and travel date restrictions, and limited destinations.

I selected a date I was happy with for each of the 4 cities that had award availability and checked the cost of the flight from London to those cities and added it to the taxes I would pay to depart that city:

This flight required a bit of a judgement call and a lot of luck because there was absolutely no award availability on the one flight that I could trust to get me into Helsinki on time to catch the A350 (for the trip back).

Of course, there are other routes served by the A380, but many readers of this blog are based in North America, and award availability on these particular flights is more difficult to finOf course, there are other routes served by the A380, but many readers of this blog are based in North America, and award availability on these particular flights is more difficult to finof this blog are based in North America, and award availability on these particular flights is more difficult to find.

You are ready to book a flight and have confirmed award availability for your dates and the cash value of the ticket is more than the cost to buy miles / points.

The only information Delta has given is that there will be 5 tiers of award availability, and that one - way flights will be allowed at half the cost of round - trips.

But it is also because the cost of frequent flier awards is pegged directly to the cost of the seats, so there is often availability if the price of the flight is low.