Flights within Sri Lanka, where the airline holds a monopoly, can get quite expensive, but
award flights cost only 5,000 miles roundtrip.
Not exact matches
However, the United
award chart shows that business class saver tickets
only cost 60,000 each way, or 120,000 round - trip for the same exact
flight, a quarter of how many miles or points you would have needed with cash back or a statement credit.
If I can make as controversial a claim as is supported by the evidence, even the American Express Delta Platinum credit card, with its $ 195 annual fee and companion ticket
awarded on each account anniversary,
only makes sense (compared to redeeming Arrival + miles) if you can consistently redeem the companion ticket for
flights costing more than $ 672 — the value of the Arrival + miles you could manufacture with the same $ 195 in disposable income — or if you can use the Medallion Qualifying Miles earned with the card to achieve Platinum or Diamond Medallion status.
A United round - trip ticket in business class will
only cost you 88,000 ANA
award miles, or 55,000
award miles in economy, and ANA doesn't add fuel surcharges on United
flights.
A first class
flight on Qantas will
cost only 70,000 Alaska miles, but it is extremely rare to find the necessary
award space.
ANA does not offer an easy
award chart to view the
cost of itineraries with
only ANA - operated
flights.
Yet, a longer
flight between Dallas and Hong Kong, which falls into the multicarrier
award Zone 6 (7,501 to 9,000 miles),
costs only 85,000 miles in business class.
The taxes on your roundtrip
award flight using Avios on Aer Lingus to Dublin will
only be around $ 150, while
flights routed from Heathrow
cost nearly twice as much in fees.
The result is quite spectacular — if you book a Delta
award ticket with Delta miles, it'll
cost you 80,000 miles for a round - trip
flight, but if you book the same
flight with Flying Blue miles, that's
only 50,000 miles.
New MileSAAver
awards for
flights of 500 miles or less will now
cost only 7,500 miles in economy class or 15,000 miles in first class.
Upgrade rates are no longer included in the Hawaiian Airlines
award chart, but
cost roughly 25,000 miles for
flights when First Class Saver
awards are available and 50,000 when
only Flex
awards remain.
If you need to fly up to 700 miles one - way, a domestic
award flight only costs 10,000 miles.
Award costs and earnings on Delta had long been out of step with earnings and award costs for flights taken on Virgin Atlantic so it was only a matter of time before Virgin put through the changes needed to align the two — that's what last week's announcement was all a
Award costs and earnings on Delta had long been out of step with earnings and
award costs for flights taken on Virgin Atlantic so it was only a matter of time before Virgin put through the changes needed to align the two — that's what last week's announcement was all a
award costs for
flights taken on Virgin Atlantic so it was
only a matter of time before Virgin put through the changes needed to align the two — that's what last week's announcement was all about.
The roundtrip
flight will
cost you 85,000 miles, but
only if you can find
award availability.
A round - trip
award flight to South America on American through Alaska's Mileage Plan
cost only 40,000 miles, but that same
flight booked through American Airlines AAdvantage program
costs 60,000 miles.
From Seattle, a round - trip
flight to Portland is
only 9,000 points (4,500 each way) and brings the total
cost of a Hawaii
award to 34,000 points.
Using Miles & More miles for a one - way
award flight from mainland US to Central American or the Caribbean
only costs 17,000 miles one - way and no fuel surcharges.
This means that an
award flight within US booked as a round trip will
cost 25,000 miles, but when you book two one - way
awards you can fly the same round trip for
only 24,000 miles.
Aside from a few short - haul economy
flights we paid for out of pocket, the
only costs we encountered were taxes and fees on our
award tickets — all of which
cost less than an economy fare would have on any of the
flights.
However, they have explicitly stated that
flights between select markets will
only cost 10K miles each way for the lowest level economy
awards.
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.
The best deal available is the ability to snag a round trip
flight to Europe for
only 25,000 miles in economy — that's the same number of miles it generally
costs for a round trip
flight within the U.S. Business class
awards can be a good deal, but taxes are considerably higher especially for
flights departing out of Europe.
For example,
award flights between NYC and Fort Lauderdale or Houston and New Orleans
only cost 5,000 miles roundtrip.
Elimination of 15 % online booking discount: The online booking discount of 15 % for all SQ reward
flights booked through their web site made
award trips great value — I was able to book my First Class
flight from Manila to Europe for
only 72,250 miles one - way — using United MileagePlus miles for the same trip would have
cost 115,000 miles!
An
award ticket on United between the U.S. and the Middle East
costs 85,000 miles, but the
flight between the U.S. and Japan
costs only 70,000 miles.
Best Miles / Points Redemption: American Airlines flies discounted
award flights to Europe from October 15 - May 15, meaning a round - trip
costs only 40,000 AA miles per person.
Adding stopovers doesn't increase the
cost of an
award because the program
only looks at the number of
flights and the distance traveled, not how long you spend at each connecting point.
My guess is that American may be raising the minimum
cost of an
award flight to British Airways, hence the price increase for zone 1 short - haul
flights in the US market
only.
For example, an
award flight from Dallas to Cancun is
only 7,500 Avios points, while the same
flight will
cost 12,500 American Airlines miles.
Another sweet spot is an Economy
award redemption from London to the USA East Coast (New York, Washington, Baltimore, and Boston) which
only costs 26,000 Avios for the round trip in off - peak periods (but these
flights come with heavy taxes making them not so attractive after all).
British Airways determines how many Avios an
award flight will
cost based on two factors: the distance of your
flight — multiple - segment itineraries are still priced per segment then added together — and if you have
only a single carrier or multiple Oneworld carriers on your ticket.