Sentences with phrase «avoid fuel surcharges on an award»

If I really wanted to avoid fuel surcharges on an award then the drop in points when I transfer from Singapore Airlines to Virgin Australia might make sense in some circumstances where Singapore imposed high fuel surcharges.

Not exact matches

American partner Qatar Airways offers service to Johannesburg from its hub in Doha, and so long as you fly on Qatar to Doha as your transatlantic hop, it's possible to book an award at this same mileage amount while avoiding almost all fuel surcharges and fees.

Avoid awards that place you on British Airways flights unless you want to pay steep fuel surcharges that add hundreds of dollars to the cost of your redemption.

Aeroplan is great because you can book one way awards, avoid fuel surcharges on airlines like United and Singapore Airlines, they have one of the best search engines (although it can be a bit slow), and a lot of their redemption rates for business class are pretty reasonable.

Unless you can find an award seat on Delta or Korean Air, it's best to avoid booking through SkyTeam since Delta adds fuel surcharges to most of its other partners.

For example, use United Airlines miles to book an award with no fuel surcharges, or book an airline that doesn't pass through London so you can avoid the high passenger duty on business and first class travel.

Both loyalty currencies cost around the same in the promotions but with MileagePlus miles you can avoid paying fuel surcharges when using them on United and a number of other airlines and, on top of that, you can purchase long - haul premium cabin awards on United for fewer miles than you can on British Airways.

And not all programs have fuel surcharges, just as most North American programs don't add them to awards on most partners, South American programs are a place to go to avoid fuel surcharges too.

Considering the fact that United does not pass on carrier imposed fuel surcharges for award tickets even on partners, some people prefer to book partners such as Lufthansa with United miles to avoid these charges, even though 70,000 miles is higher than other programs would charge for that flight in business class.