Award miles can be used to
book award flights which can save you a lot on travel!
Not exact matches
All other Star Alliance
bookings will require a stop in Asia,
which can add a significant amount of time depending on
flight schedules and
award space.
Additionally, American Express often runs transfer bonus promotions with individual transfer partners
which can be very useful if you need to
book an
award flight.
Booking awards with Virgin Australia can be very easy or require a phone call, depending on
which partners you are trying to
book flights with.
All other Star Alliance
bookings will require a stop in Asia,
which can add a significant amount of time depending on
flight schedules and
award space.
Keep an eye on the partners of your Host program, and learn
which search engines show partner
flights, and when you'll need to call in to
book an
award.
Cathay Pacific is also a transfer partner of Citi ThankYou Points
which gives you yet another option for earning Asia Miles to help you
book your
award flight.
Interested in
which credit cards he used to
book all the
award flights above?
Virgin America utilizes a revenue - based
award chart on its own
flights,
which means a more expensive cash
flight will require more reward points to
book.
You can either find a different
flight, use one of their airline partners (if using Avios to
book an
award), or use the BA «stopover» feature,
which allows you to connect to a final destination in a city in the UK.
If you want to know
which credit cards he used to
book all those
award flights above, rest easy — he's got a post on that too.
These articles about the thought process that goes into how to
book award flights and
which currency to use are really thought - provoking.
While Saver
Awards for continental U.S. flights will remain unchanged, the new policy — which you can read about in more detail here — means those who book business or first - class awards flights will fork over an additional 5,000 to 10,000 miles per leg on most routes, and even more during peak travel se
Awards for continental U.S.
flights will remain unchanged, the new policy —
which you can read about in more detail here — means those who
book business or first - class
awards flights will fork over an additional 5,000 to 10,000 miles per leg on most routes, and even more during peak travel se
awards flights will fork over an additional 5,000 to 10,000 miles per leg on most routes, and even more during peak travel seasons.
When an airline sells out of its saver inventory of
award tickets on any
flight, the only option to
book with miles is to pay the higher standard or anytime price —
which often can be tens of thousands of miles more.
Removing these high priced, YQ heavy
flights also removes a large number of low level
awards —
which further hurts your ability to find seats to
book with your AA miles.This is why a good amount of diversity in your mileage programs is important, as is knowing your demand for miles.
United is in the Star Alliance network,
which means it has many other airline partners whose members can use their miles to
book flights operated by United when a saver
award is available.
Miles & More has reduced
flight awards called Mileage Bargain
awards which offer ~ 50 % the price in miles when you
book and travel within specific dates and destinations.
The
booking process for
award flights can be difficult to understand,
which is why we made some how - to
booking guides!
Additionally, American Express often runs transfer bonus promotions with individual transfer partners
which can be very useful if you need to
book an
award flight.
Plus the airline is a SkyTeam member,
which allows you to
book award flights on many other carriers, such as Delta, Air France and Korean Air.
Depending on
which award flights you
book, the Amex Membership Rewards points can be worth more because you have an extra 10,000 Membership Rewards points to play with.
Here's how you can earn miles, attain elite status, and
book award flights on more than a dozen domestic and foreign frequent - flier programs — each of
which has at least one major U.S. partner.
Since there are no direct Star Alliance
flights from Los Angeles to Fiji, the United
award booking engine routes me through the closest and most convenient Star Alliance hub,
which happens to be Auckland, New Zealand.
To help you choose
which flight you want to
book that day, amenities for each
flight and cabin are listed in two places: immediately under the
flight information and again under each
award type.
They sure used an awful lot of language in an attempt to put a positive spin on these changes, but the bottom line is that we are now dependent on United's
award booking engine,
which doesn't pull in all partner
flights, excludes many routings, and has a difficult time with itineraries of three or more legs.
So, for example, I could
book an AAdvantage
award the three of us on this
flight to Sydney (
which is scheduled for November and is no good for us whatsoever).....
The same
flight in the same class on the same airline can cost wildly different amounts to
book depending on
which airline's miles you are using to
book the
award.
You will need to use Alaska's website to look for
award availability (American's will work, too) and then call British Airways to
book the
award, telling the call center agent
which flights you want.
One of the most popular perks among 10xTravel readers is the Southwest Companion Pass
which allows you to
book 2 - for - 1 tickets whether you're paying with cash or
booking an
award flight.
All of these programs have a variety of partner airlines
which you may be flying on when you
book an
award flight, and all of them add taxes and fees to
award tickets.
Don't forget to take availability of bonus miles, point transfers and other tactics into account when deciding
which awards program to use to
book your Etihad «lap of luxury»
flight.
However, there are many alternatives available
which allow us to
book round - trip domestic economy
awards for cheaper prices than this when the
flights are short enough to fall under certain mileage thresholds.
With a few exceptions
which we'll deal with later, United
flights booked through the airline's website will earn
award miles based on the price of the ticket and your elite status.
If you prefer a Miles & Money fare,
which allows you to save miles spent on the
flight and use cash instead while also earning miles, navigate back to the advanced
booking window and search for Miles & Money
awards.
An excellent companion post to this one would be «Avios
Booking Tool, the AA
Award map»
which can help you to find dates and
flights that we will then
book with our Avios.
Even though you don't earn elite miles on
award tickets and I value my airline elite status greatly, there's something extremely satisfying about
booking an expensive domestic
flight and only paying $ 2.50 in fees,
which is what most carriers charge per segment on domestic US
flights (plus any ticketing fees).
Most of us don't have an unlimited supply of points and miles,
which is one of several reasons why even the most passionate
award travel enthusiast occasionally
books flights with cash rather than rewards.
American is part of the OneWorld Alliance
which allows you to use your miles to
book award flights to Singapore on partners such as JAL, Cathay Pacific, and Malaysia Airlines.
While a couple of seats open on some
flights 330 days out, I have twice had long international
flights cancelled or schedules changed forcing me to look for new
award space,
which makes me wonder whether it is better to
book at 6 or 9 months out when schedules are a little more reliable.
You can't use Medallion Qualification miles to
book award flights, but they can help you earn Delta Medallion status
which offers perks like upgrades and early boarding.
So you don't get short - changed on
award miles and Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQD), it's critical to pay attention to how much you're paying per
flight mile, the fare
booking code and
which booking services count as Special Fares vs. standard fares.
If a
flight is 50,000 miles and $ 500 in surcharges, then that's a 100,000 mile redemption in my
book when it comes to comparing the
award ticket (
which truthfully should be called «maybe somewhat discounted rate ticket») to other programs or to paid travel.
The Budgie $ Best in Class
Awards,
which are open to all low cost airlines in the Asia Pacific region, recognise and reward the overall quality of the airlines service from the
booking experience, check - in, in -
flight experience, ticket pricing and routes provided.
Delta is actually the best for
booking Australia business class
awards, one of the toughest frequent flyer
awards out there, because of their partnership with Virgin Australia (
which has the best availability non-stop between the U.S. and Australia, especially on their Los Angeles — Brisbane
flight).
For our Cathay Pacific First Class
award flight (which I often book for clients with my Award Booking Service), on the return my husband and I switched so that I could try first class with the munc
award flight (
which I often
book for clients with my
Award Booking Service), on the return my husband and I switched so that I could try first class with the munc
Award Booking Service), on the return my husband and I switched so that I could try first class with the munchkin.
Book European
awards using British Airways miles — you'll be hit with massive surcharges on BA
flights,
which all go through London and are heavily taxed; even on partners such as American there will be high fees
Remember, no matter who operates the
flight, you are subject to the
award ticket prices of the program with
which you're
booking.
Taking advantage of rule buster
awards For those cardholders with lots of earned miles stored up, they should consider «rule buster»
awards,
which generally double the number of miles, to
book flights.
If the Eligible Member cancels the Companion Ticket
booking more than twenty - four (24) hours prior to the scheduled departure of the outbound
flight from Canada, British Airways will redeposit the Companion
Award eVoucher
which will only be valid for the remainder of its twenty - four (24) month expiry period based on original date of issue.
This flexibility to
book awards on any alliance exceeds the number of
flights you can
book with American Airlines miles, but overall those 12 partners probably just equal American's program,
which is better than any of the 12.