Sentences with phrase «better award availability»

Right now there's pretty good award availability on this route as flights have only recently been loaded.

For those with large families who need to book a high number of tickets it may be impossible to get the entire family on one flight even during times of good award availability.

Sometimes there might be better award availability closer to a flight's departure, but that makes it hard if you are trying to plan a big trip.

I will be curious to see if they follow through on their promise for better award availability next year when the 2015 program launches.

So while there's good award availability there's little opportunity for high leverage redemptions.

Often, there is better award availability on these types of direct flights making this a good route to watch when it comes to redeeming miles.

I don't think there's a route with better award availability in the world than what Air France offers between Washington and Paris.

The two challenges are that they're a member of Skyteam, so their partners aren't as good and don't often offer as good award availability as some of their competitors, and also that you have to deal with the idiosyncrasies of Korean — rules like only redeeming your points for family members.

Having the option to transfer points over to Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer is a nice bonus as Singapore Airlines has a habit of offering better award availability to its own rewards program members than it does to members of its airline partners» programs (United MileagePlus, Lufthansa Miles & More etc...)

The ultimate winners could be travelers looking to burn their AAdvantage miles as I can already see pretty good award availability for next year... I'm even tempted to book an award for myself

And there's really one primary use of their miles — that's that Singapore offers much much much better award availability on their own flights for their own members.

There is pretty good award availability on between Singapore and more nearby cities (Shanghai, Beijing, Delhi and Mumbai).

Despite the dramatic devaluation in terms of earning and redeeming miles in 2014, United MileagePlus remains one of the most valuable U.S. frequent flyer programs with the biggest number of airline partners and a generally good award availability.

The main issue with this excuse is that these days you actually have far better award availability closer to departure, as I mentioned above, but you can't be sure which airline or dates that availability will be on.

But Membership Rewards can be transferred directly to Singapore's KrisFlyer, which may have higher award prices and fuel surcharges but also better award availability.

Cardholders also get better award availability than non-cardholders, which could come in especially handy now that the holiday travel season is upon us.

They claim better award availability in business class, though business class availability is hardly a challenge now on Air France.

The downside is you'll have to pay $ 316 in fees on four cards, but to make up for it I've found Hawaiian Airlines tends to have good award availability even at times when revenue fares are high.

For more options there tends to be good award availability Virgin Australia.

Just as UK travelers will often have more luck finding award flights out of European cities other than London, US travelers will often find better award availability to cities like Paris and Brussels.

Likewise, if you're frequently required to pay for your own Virgin Atlantic tickets between the US and the UK, you may save money by redeeming Flying Club miles against the fare portion of your ticket's cost, thanks to their quite good award availability.

JFK has some of British Airways» best award availability if you're wondering how to use your Avios before the coming devaluation.

Even though only a few airlines fly to Salvador, all three of the major U.S. alliances have good award availability throughout the year.

In general though I find that the very best award availability does tend to open on some airlines when the schedules load, but that the absolutely best availability tends to be 6 and 9 months out.

I have a conspiracy theory that using the Dutch or French websites of KLM or Air France yields better award availability than using the US version of the website.

I originally started collecting them thinking I'd suck up the fuel surcharges flying Boston to London on Virgin Atlantic Upper Class with good award availability.

Iberia Avios have much better award availability and much lower fuel surcharges for Iberia flights.

This is because of their flexible award routing rules, no surcharges, and generally good award availability.

United Airlines may not have many cabins that one would call aspirational (The latest Polaris seats on the 777 - 300ER are nice but there's hardly any of them in service) but it offers far better award availability than American Airlines and requires considerably fewer miles for premium cabin awards than Delta — that makes it a valuable transfer option to have.

Elites also get better award availability.

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer is a transfer partner for all three major US bank programs and, as Singapore Airlines offers better award availability to its own KrisFlyer members than it does to members of its airline partners» programs, being able to transfer Amex Membership Rewards points over to KrisFlyer is very useful indeed.

As you point out earlier in the comments, close - in there is pretty good award availability, and being willing to pay a change fee on an economy booking is a great way to get there.

Singapore also offers discounts and better award availability on awards when you use Krisflyer miles instead of miles from other programs.

Medallion members (Delta's elite program) have better award availability, and you can get status quickly and easily through co-branded credit cards like Delta SkyMiles Platinum and Delta SkyMiles Reserve.

British Airways (a Membership Rewards partner) is very useful for short haul flights and should be part of your toolkit, but Delta miles are hard to use for domestic flights because Delta availability at the low - level is poor, though their SkyTeam partners do have good award availability.

Some of the best award availability appears just days before departure, so this is a big negative change for me personally.

LATAM does not have the best award availability, but if you can find it you can create some incredible trips around the continent.

As a tip for U.S. - based travelers, the weekdays surrounding July 4 are often the cheapest summer dates to travel, and the ones with the best award availability.

In addition, you'll sometimes see a better award availability when you log in to your MileagePlus account, and the $ 95 annual fee is waived for the first year.

Transferring to United gives you access to Star Alliance, which is the biggest alliance and has the best award availability for many routes.

As you can see from ExpertFlyer, there are some days with good award availability and fantastic upgrade availability:

The program generally has good award availability, including premium classes on transpacific routes between the U.S. and Asia, which are notoriously hard to get with miles.

Some of the best award availability appears just days before departure, so this is a big negative change for some people who really enjoyed making free changes.

I still think United does a better job of serving the cities I want to visit, has better award availability, and has better rules for booking awards (including stopovers and no fuel surcharges).

Different transfer partners offer more value than others, usually because they have cheaper awards, lower fees, or better award availability.

Better award availability.

The good news was that Japan Airlines had good award availability to Tokyo Haneda Airport, with upwards of four business - class seats per flight.