Sentences with phrase «award seats available»

Some programs are generally better than others at making award seats available on peak dates at a reasonable rate, but you need to check each program to know exactly what is offered.

Also, there are fewer award seats available at the lowest levels during peak seasons, like summer and the winter holidays, because the airlines know they can get top dollar for seats.

There are a lot of business class award seats available on this route for 2016, even during the hottest travel times.

Generally, airlines make only a certain number of award seats available on each flight.

When you look for award flights on partner carriers, including some partner airlines that aren't part of an alliance, then you will find a lot more award seats available.

It's rare to find more than two business award seats available on the same flight, but I've often seen four and six economy seats available.

However, even just days before departure, you can sometimes find 3 first class award seats available for booking.

Nevertheless, you will have to find award seats available at the lowest mileage levels in order to get the most value from your points and miles.

If you don't see space when you search, there are often 1 or 2 award seats available within 2 weeks of departure.

A few months ago, they released a lot of award seats available across a wide variety of dates, but then that ended.

If you managed to get the cheapest award seats available, those points would buy 12 domestic fares of 25,000 points each.

It's not unusual to see a couple of first and business class award seats available on that flight.

Most airlines limit the amount of award seats available on any given flight.

In addition, large families will usually be frustrated in their attempts to find more than two or three award seats available at the lowest mileage levels.

In surveys, Delta typically ranks at or toward the bottom for making award seats available.

Sure, it might seem a little early to start thinking about your summer 2016 Euro trip, but when there's business - class award seats available during peak season, it's worth planning far in advance.

Sometimes Korean Air will make more award seats available only to SKYPASS, so always try to double check with Alaskan or other websites like Delta to verify that you'll be able to book the awards you find on the Koran website.

Reward models matter Sorensen says the amount of award seats available often reflects a tension within airlines.

Airlines continuously make fewer award seats available at the lowest mileage levels.

It's also due to the fact that Delta simply makes fewer Saver award seats available than its peers.

Delta has gotten its share of groans in recent years from points and miles enthusiasts for the difficulty involved in redeeming Delta miles, but now the airline has cleaned up the long - standing issues with its website and pledged to make more award seats available even at the lowest redemption level.

Airlines using mileage - based programs, on the other hand, limit award seat available and often only offer them at a fixed price: i.e., 25,000 miles for a domestic trip.

Now, it's virtually cause for a party when there is a sAAver award seat available on a route you actually want.

Availability: Typically Singapore only releases 1 suites class award seat in advance, although occasionally you'll see 2 award seats available close to the date of departure.

Just to give an example, American has at least seven business class award seats available per flight between Los Angeles and London for many dates next summer.

On the return, there was only one first award seat available so I locked that in and my partner is in business.

I searched for flights on the right dates with two award seats available in first or business class (I also used an awesome tool called ExpertFlyer to search, but that's optional).

Some partners might have more award seats available for their own frequent flyers, but in general, Aeroplan miles should not get you access to more partner seats than United miles, for example.

By comparison, American had award seats available only 49 % of the time.

Studies for the airline consultancy IdeaWorks have found that Southwest has far more award seats available at 12,500 miles or fewer (one - way) than other airlines — and at a far lower average number of frequent - flyer miles (an average of 9,300 round - trip, compared with 23,443 for Delta and more than 30,000 for United and American).

That's $ 875 for a round - trip domestic flight — assuming you could find award seats available.

But now, airlines have devalued their miles by raising the number of miles needed for award seats, and by reducing the number of award seats available.

Southwest, though, consistently makes award seats available on nearly every flight, typically for a reasonable number of miles.

I looked on BA's website and saw Business awards seats available.

As I was playing around with the British Airways Search tool, I noticed that there are as many as 6 business class award seats available for travelling to India next week.

When we announced the SkyMiles 2015 program we committed to making more award seats available at the lowest prices and compared to last year, we've increased Award availability by more than double at the lowest prices to make it easier to use your miles.

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In addition, large families will usually be frustrated in their attempts to find more than two or three award seats available at the lowest mileage levels.

The earlier you book, the higher the chance of having award seats available.

I was surprised that in most cases, there were award seats available at the lowest award levels in more than 90 percent of the days in July and August.

Scott McCartney, Travel Editor of The Wall Street Journal, discusses how the airlines now make more money from their frequent flyer programs than they do from normal airline operations, and which airlines are the best and worst at making award seats available to passengers.

As it turns out, there are two flights available on December 21st with precisely four award seats each available to Avios bookers: