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.
While that guarantees that you'll be able to get anywhere in the world, booking through a smaller foreign carrier may result in
less award seat availability and the redemption rates might be higher.
Though you'll often get more value for you points by transferring them to frequent flyer programs, this can be a great benefit, particularly
if award seat availability is limited on the flights you want.
Getting to Tahiti from the United States with miles isn't always easy,
since award seat availability is limited, but it's doable if you plan in advance.
AAdvantage offers the best value for flights to Maui and Kauai in all classes, and it usually has the best
award seat availability among the three.
It looks like British Airways» and Qantas» websites can't always be trusted to
show award seat availability on Iberia — in this case for Business Class awards.
While this is one definite advantage of using cash over using actual airline miles, since real miles are subject to airlines» always
fluctuating award seats availability, the other side of the coin is «real» miles can potentially be worth far more in terms of what they can get you.
The top five spots for overall
award seat availability went to: airberlin and Southwest with 100 percent; Virgin Australia with 96.4 percent; Air Canada with 90.7 percent; Singapore with 90 percent; and JetBlue and Lufthansa tied for fifth place with 87.1 percent.
If you're looking for comfortable flights and good
award seat availability between North America and Europe, then consider joining airberlin's loyality program, topbonus.
A survey of
award seat availability released May 11 showed that, among U.S. airlines, American had the fewest seats available at the lowest redemption, and that availability was down more than 10 percentage points compared with 2015.
He's likely to bring a more revenue - based component to elite frequent flyer benefits, as well as restricted access to Cathay
premium award seat availability for AAdvantage and other partner frequent flyer program members.
While that guarantees that you'll be able to get anywhere in the world, booking through a smaller foreign carrier may result in
less award seat availability and the redemption rates might be higher.
Though you'll often get more value for you points by transferring them to frequent flyer programs, this can be a great benefit, particularly
if award seat availability is limited on the flights you want.