My partner and I were able to book two low - level
award tickets leaving Thursday evening on a non-stop and returning Sunday morning with a connection in Detroit.
Not exact matches
If you need to transfer points to your Flying Blue account before booking, some friendly phone agents have been known to put
award tickets on hold for a couple of days which
leaves plenty of time for transfers to process.
To make a change in itinerary, I'd either need to
leave Tokyo that morning and spend a whole day waiting around at JFK or fly through Los Angeles and see if I could stitch together some American
award availability to get me all the way back to Orlando, letting my JetBlue
ticket go to waste.
Buying United miles should be
left for times when you need to top off your MileagePlus account to book an
award ticket.
However, in eight years of planning vacations, I have had many
leave periods changed or deployment dates changed, and I have never had no problem getting an airline to fully refund my
ticket or redeposit my miles from an
award ticket with no fee.
To search for a flight to Japan using your miles with JAL, choose «JAL international
award ticket reservation» from the «
award redemption (air)» column on the
left.
Award charts break out the miles you need for any given
ticket based on what geographic area you're
leaving from and what geographic area you're traveling to.
Everyone has to pay taxes / fees on
award tickets, so adding those in brings your total price to $ 6,150.20, but I'll subtract the $ 50 in statement credits we have
left over to get us to a total of $ 6,100.20.
↓ Good
Award Comes to an End When US Airways left the Star Alliance to join oneworld on March 31, US Airways Dividend Miles members lost the ability to book what Lucky at One Mile At A Time called, «one of the single best award ticket values in the industry» - US Airways» 90,000 - mile business class award between the U.S. and North Asia using Star Alliance carr
Award Comes to an End When US Airways
left the Star Alliance to join oneworld on March 31, US Airways Dividend Miles members lost the ability to book what Lucky at One Mile At A Time called, «one of the single best
award ticket values in the industry» - US Airways» 90,000 - mile business class award between the U.S. and North Asia using Star Alliance carr
award ticket values in the industry» - US Airways» 90,000 - mile business class
award between the U.S. and North Asia using Star Alliance carr
award between the U.S. and North Asia using Star Alliance carriers.
You fly two of the «sides» in the triangle using your
award ticket, and
leave one side «unflown» (you fill in that side by driving between the two cities or using another
ticket).
That
leaves me in a situation where I have a valid business class
award ticket to Abu Dhabi, but no flight from Abu Dhabi to Berlin!
Conclusion: China Airlines often offers business class
tickets at much lower prices than competitors or has
award availability when there are few other choices
left.