Sentences with phrase «better than airline miles»

Not exact matches

While miles can be redeemed at any SkyTeam member airline (including Delta), the benefits which make this card better than average are locked to AeroMexico Airlines.

Generally speaking, I think transferring points to airline miles is a better value than hotel points.

Other than that, Japan Airlines is easily the best option if you want to use as few miles as possible.

While miles can be redeemed at any SkyTeam member airline (including Delta), the benefits which make this card better than average are locked to AeroMexico Airlines.

This is better than with other airlines, were you would have to spend $ 25,000 to be eligible for the elusive 25,000 mile award.

With many of the best airline miles programs, we've never had to pay more than a few bucks when booking award travel.

To complicate things more, Membership Rewards has more and better airline transfer partners than ThankYou, but the Prestige card has better earning potential, offering bonus miles for purchases in several different categories.

What's more important, however, is that there are times when using a partner airline's currency might get you a better deal than paying for your ticket with United miles.

The best frequent flyer programs do more than reward you for your loyalty; they dole out free airline miles that let you score free travel.

If you don't stay in hotels often enough that you care about earning hotel points, some hotel brands, such as Best Western and Marriott will let you earn miles with your chosen airline rather than earning points for hotel stays.

Cardholders will typically get a better deal through the ThankYou Travel Center than by transferring points to American and redeeming AAdvantage miles directly with the airline.

This means that if you were already planning a 5 - night award, by paying an extra 32,000 / 30,000 Starpoints, you get 50,000 airline miles — a better transfer rate than regular transfers to airline partners.

One of the best ways to use miles is to book international fares, particularly in the business and first class cabins of foreign carriers with more sumptuous facilities than our domestic airlines.

In particular, US Airways miles are frequently a better bet than American Airlines miles for Caribbean travel.

Opt for airline card over cash back — Our expert says that if you fly regularly, you're better off with a miles card than with cash back — especially if you're loyal to one airline... (See Miles or cash back?)

Last week, Bloomberg released an article titled «Airlines Make More Money Selling Miles Than Seats,» which describes how miles and points are a fantastic perk for the airlines Airlines Make More Money Selling Miles Than Seats,» which describes how miles and points are a fantastic perk for the airlines airlines as well.

This is a much better deal than the 45,000 miles and up that many U.S. - based airline programs would charge for a round trip to Hawaii.

What's more important, however, is that there are times when using a partner airline's currency might get you a better deal than paying for your ticket with United miles.

As an added bonus, they decided to include a trip to Saint Martin in the Caribbean taking advantage of a «better than free» one way trick to save on American Airlines miles.

Rather than earning Points for Eligible Stays or as otherwise provided herein, you can instead elect to earn airline miles («Miles») with any of our approved partner frequent flyer programs («Airline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline Pairline miles («Miles») with any of our approved partner frequent flyer programs («Airline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline PAirline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline PAirline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline PAirline Program.

If you're looking to fly Air France first class, you'll need to book through Flying Blue, but paying the exorbitant Flying Blue rates to fly first class on a partner airline, rather than booking those seats through that partner or another SkyTeam member with good first class redemptions, is a waste of miles, particularly if you're transferring from a transfer program.

This card earns triple miles with both airlines, which is a better reward rate than many other co-branded airline cards offer.

Even if you're trying to build up miles with a specific airline, these cards can offer better earning potential than the carrier - branded options.

Your IHG ® Reward Club points can be redeemed at more than 5,200 IHG hotels around the world, as well as hundreds of partners, including airline miles and rental cars and so much more.

Transatlantic is on par with or better than other airlines at 25,000 miles each way in economy to Europe, Israel and North Africa, and business is a reasonable 62,500 miles.

120,000 points would buy 3 nights at this great - looking property and, in my opinion, would be a better use of Marriott Rewards points than converting them to airline miles.

With access across all major airlines, Barbados is easily one of the simplest destinations to reach, as well as one of the largest, at roughly 166 square miles, with more to do and see than other Caribbean destinations.

Some of the best uses of AAdvantage miles are for travel on airlines other than American.

Flying Club miles are best redeemed for flights with the carrier's 19 partner airlines because surcharges will be far less than on Virgin Atlantic.

It's a slightly better deal to exchange Marriott Rewards points for American Airlines miles rather than SPG Starpoints.

I believe that the US credit card market is more competitive than in Canada and the offerings are better for the consumer, especially in the frequent flyer / airline miles category.

If you are spending a lot on Alaska Airlines purchases or you value Alaska Airlines miles more than 2 cents then you would be better off with the Alaska Airlines card.

For a Hyatt fan I can't see how converting points to American Airlines can be a good idea — Hyatt points are easier to use, you can get great value out of them and, for most people, they're worth more than AAdvantage miles.

By choosing to fly with miles rather than paying by cash you'd be getting a return of around 1.75 c / mile — not a good return when you consider that I value my American Airlines miles at around 1.9 c / mile.

I've often said that, generally, I can't bring myself to cough up the extra miles needed for a First Class award ticket when Business Class on most airlines is more than good enough for me (that's not me being low - maintenance, that's just how good the Business Class hard product often is) but I'll happily do whatever it takes not to sit in Economy.

Unlike many airlines, Alaska doesn't have a giant shopping catalog that will let you redeem 200,000 miles for a $ 1,000 computer — and that's a good thing, because that deal is even worse than redeeming for PreCheck.

It would be good news for some if the airline was to price Premium Economy closer to Economy Class than to Business Class (in terms of miles needed for an award) but it may be bad need for Business Class award availability if Emirates shrinks Business Class cabins to accommodate the new product.

When it comes to buying hotel points I'm generally more positive than I am when I'm discussing the purchase of airline miles... and there's a very good reason for that.

If you don't have an airline credit card or plans to travel soon, this is a much better alternative than buying miles or redeeming a few hundred on a magazine subscription.

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.

Your Rewards Points convert at a rate of 3 Rewards Points to 1 GetGo point — which is better than the conversion rate to other airlines at 5 Rewards Points to one airline mile from Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific orairlines at 5 Rewards Points to one airline mile from Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific orAirlines, Cathay Pacific or others.

For instance, you might be more reluctant to sign up for an American Airlines card if you know that you can cash in miles for seats only a little better than half the time.

Well, rather than devaluing their award chart by increasing the number of miles required for award tickets, Japan Airlines has taken a different approach.

Now there are rewards programs that you can use to pay for airline tickets with rewards points and still earn the miles, but usually if you are paying for a flight with rewards points you aren't getting the better value than if you were to pay for the same ticket with miles.

Even if you're just looking to rack up United miles as quickly as possible, this card is a good way to go, as you get 50 percent more miles on everyday purchases than you get with your average co-branded airline credit card, including the United MileagePlus Explorer card.

By breaking down the cost of each ticket, you will see if paying for a ticket is better than using airline miles..

Add to that a large number of hotel and rental car partners as well as online shopping and you have more opportunities to earn KrisFlyer miles than with most Asian airlines, making it a good choice of reward program even for people outside of Singapore!

While I usually value airline miles around 1.5 cents / mile, topbonus has been in bankruptcy and near death since last year, so even minimal value now might be better than no value later...

They have a separate award chart for every partner, so it is not as easy to say what a particular award will cost or if it is better than, say, booking it with American Airlines miles instead.

The tradeoff is that these points can be redeemed for more than a penny each, which is better than many frequent flier miles issued by airlines.