Sentences with phrase «award seats you want»

Transferring your rewards to airline miles or hotel points can offer you the most value, but only when you can find the award seats you want, or a great hotel award stay.

Not exact matches

Jeff knew he could find 4 award seats on Avianca between Quito (UIO) and the Galapagos Islands (GPS), so he wanted to book Star Alliance awards.

If you want the award - winning minivan with 150 cubic feet of cargo room, nearly 300 horsepower and available leather seating trim, then you want the 2017 Toyota Sienna.

Most airlines will open their flights to new reservations about 11 months in advance, and if you're able to book your travel then, then you'll have one of the best opportunities to find available award seats on the flights you want.

This is a good option if you're not flexible with your travel dates, are booking last - minute flights, or don't want to fuss with finding award seats.

If you don't want to bother with finding award seats, you can use Citi ThankYou points to book paid travel through the Citi Travel Portal.

There's also a handy calculator that will tell you how many points you'll need for flights without logging in, but it won't tell you whether award seats are available on the day you want to travel.

American Airlines is particularly well known for releasing so few award seats on its own planes, so you're likely stuck with BA if you want to go to Europe.

If you'd like to visit some South Pacific islands, KrisFlyer miles can be a great choice over United miles if you want to book a premium cabin award seat.

You'd never be want to pay for those seats using Flexperks or Arrival points as you'd have to spend ungodly amounts to cover the cash cost of the tickets) To me, the flexibility to book seats I want, when I want, vastly outweighs maximizing the value I could theoretically obtain IF I could find availability using «optimal» award programs.

Obviously, if you find award space, you'll want to know if you'll have the opportunity to experience these seats.

Simply put, if you want to experience this product, there is no other way to get this award ticket, other than transferring your points to Singapore — because Singapore doesn't release its first class award seats to its partners.

That's enough for a free round - trip domestic ticket — assuming you can find an available award seat when you want.

This makes Southwest awards ideal for people who don't want to spend a lot of time trying to find an available award seat.

Do this when award seats are available for the dates you want and you're worried they won't be available by the time you earn the rest of the miles.

So you might want to spring for a business class award seat.

I knew that I wanted us to fly back to the UK in Singapore Airlines Suites Class so that was the first flight I searched for... and there was one date with 2 award seats showing.

When traveling with a large party, you generally want to start searching for award seats right when the schedule opens for booking.

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.

As stated, award availability for (saver) business class to New Zealand on United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with business class seats between the US and Australia / New Zealand.

As is the case with first class, it will be easier to book one award seat (maybe 2, if you're lucky) if you want to fly Qantas business class.

Some even call exactly at 12:01 a.m. to get the seats they want, because airlines only release a small number of seats initially for award travel on each flight.

It makes it a lot easier to fly when you want to fly or book hotels when you don't have to worry about open award seats or rooms.

But the annoying thing is that when I go to book an award ticket, the flight that I want to take does not have any award seats available, so I can't use the miles.

But for first class, or if you want to buy a more expensive award with last seat availability, the prices are pretty much the same.

Like the Barclaycard Arrival program, Capital One No Hassle Rewards is ideal for people who are not only NOT loyal to a particular airline or hotel, they don't want to be and they don't want to spend time sifting through award inventory or waiting for award seats to open up.

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

Learning how to search and book awards seats on partner airlines is crucial to maximizing the value of your points and increasing your options for getting to where you want -LSB-...]

Learning how to search and book awards seats on partner airlines is crucial to maximizing the value of your points and increasing your options for getting to where you want to go.

However, more expensive awards do exist if you want last - seat availability.

Most people will want to pick a nonstop flight and only the Asiana flight has an award seat available in Business Class, so I'm going to pick that one (it's 60,000 miles for the one - way plus $ 77.50 in taxes).

Those award prices for flights to Paris are for economy seats, but if you really want to fly close to the one you love for Valentine's Day, you can book first - class seats on the Singapore Airlines A380 that flies from JFK to Frankfurt, Germany.

This is so important because you don't want to lose an award seat or a hotel room while you're waiting for your Ultimate Rewards Points to transfer.

Once you find the award you want, you have to call Korean Air to put the award on hold — agents may be able to put seats on hold for weeks or months if you ask, up until a few days before departure.

My guess is VA wants to see whether they can sell those seats rather than release award space at this time.

If an award ticket costs 60 or 70K points for this one - way route, and the accounting reimbursement is around $ 200 - 500, then how can you be surprised or disappointed that AA doesn't want to give you a F seat for such a pittance?

At least for me, this is a real showstopper, particularly on longer trips when I want to be able to grab award seats when the calendar first opens.

I am interested in what you have to say about about how, why and when seats open up for award days and weeks before you want to fly.

If you have your heart set on flights on a particular date at a particular time into a particular city, you are likely to be disappointed when the airline says it has no award seats available precisely when you want.

«It's becoming more of a hassle these days but presuming you can get an award seat on the route you want, it's still the best value for redeemed miles or points.

Use a site like Kayak to see who has the flights you want and who has seats, check the award availability, then transfer Starpoints.

So you're not choosing from award seating on Delta, you're just finding the best deal available on any airline that can take you where you want to go.

You wanted to book award travel to Europe this summer but couldn't find any available seats?

Remember that Delta limits the number of award seats per flight, though, so you may want to book early for peak season.

There's only a couple of weeks to go if you want to secure a seat at the summer's biggest awards night

(We say «necessarily» because you never know how many seats are actually available for those entry - level awards, or if they are ever available on the flight you want.)