Sentences with phrase «book premium award»

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The surcharges are particularly bad on these 2 Star Alliance partners when you book premium cabin awards.

In contrast, an exploration firm (with no history) might sink a few million into an exploration licence & immediately the average junior resource stock investor awards it a 1000 % premium to book value.

Booking a premium cabin award aboard Lufthansa through a partner airline is very difficult since the carrier reserves most those seats for its own frequent flyer program members.

These rates increase to 30,000 / 60,000 miles for awards booked in premium economy, and 40,000 / 80,000 miles for business class flights.

With business class flights to the Caribbean and northern South America, United's award regions allow you to book premium cabins in a variety of ways.

American Airlines surprised many today when it announced several customer - friendly changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex Awards» will allow customers to book one - way tickets for half the amount of miles needed for a round - trip ticket, and will also let passengers book multi-city itineraries and combine award seats with non-award seats.Under the old paradigm, passengers could only book round - trips to and from the same city and were forced to fly in an award seat of equal value for both legs of the journey.This often made booking award travel an exercise in futility — for example, an award seat might be available only on an outbound journey, but not the return trip.But now passengers will be able to fly to New York in an award seat, and return in a premium - fare seat if a return award seat is not available.

If you have a family of three or more people, it can be REALLY hard to find award inventory to book a big trip, especially when it comes to premium cabins.

When booking award flights in premium cabins, it's sometimes possible to get up to 15 cents per point in value (or even higher)!

If you live on one of the coasts, booking a transcontinental award flight in a premium cabin is a great way to use MileagePlus miles.

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.

For example, a year ago you could find lots of premium space on Cathay booking with AA / AS miles at attractive award cost.

If you're staying at non-chain hotels, or hotels where you don't collect that chain's loyalty points, and you redeem your miles for high - value awards, like intercontinental premium cabin awards, you'll get more value by booking through PointsHound than through a traditional cashback portal.

Spencer has put that knowledge to use by booking some of the top premium cabin award flights in the sky.

Indeed, if you could book a standard room at the premium room award conversion rate, it would cost just 41,719 HHonors points per night!

Purchasing these points at a discount is a great way to boost your stock of airline miles (by up to 35,000 miles) if you're looking to book a huge award in a premium airline cabin and are still short.

Unfortunately, that's not possible, but booking cheap premium night awards is a good next - best alternative (unless you're booking 5 consecutive nights, in which case the nightly rate drops to 40,000 HHonors points)!

Also, if you're trying to make a premium cabin booking for a route that's not considered a «sweet - spot» on an award chart, you might be getting a poor return in value for your points.

Quick tip: if you are planning on using miles to upgrade, search for business class award space prior to booking your premium economy ticket.

The savings available when booking premium cabin partner awards via Asiana are incredible.

Not only does Amsterdam not have the high taxes that the UK imposes on premium cabin awards but the 17,000 KrisFlyer miles saved in each direction (after accounting for the 15 % online booking discount) simply made the proposition even more attractive.

For most long - haul premium cabin partner awards you are better off booking through other Star Alliance partners such as Aviana, ANA or Asiana.

If you're happy to pay exorbitant surcharges on awards you can use your AAdvantage miles to book British Airways Business Class and First Class awards... but then you're simply overpaying for products that are considerably worse than what we have come to expect on premium airlines.

Certain premium cabin flight segments may earn different award miles and Premier qualifying credits than those defined for your ticketed fare class in the chart above (your fare class for each flight segment is displayed during booking and when viewing a ticketed itinerary on united.com).

The devaluation on 22 March has seen a lot of the premium awards I booked with my miles go up in price quite steeply and what was once a good deal is now either very expensive (in terms of miles needed) or not that good a deal at all.

While one of the award charts did see a major valuation last year — that of Emirates — there are still multiple partner award charts which offer international premium cabin awards for much less than the number of miles that would be required by booking directly with the airlines» own award programs.

The miles may be worth less but have more utility since you can use them to book award for your family or to get a premium experience in first or business class.

To clarify, I mean if you're paying cash (by cash I mean hopefully using a credit card that gets travel awards) for your economy ticket, you may be able pay a similar amount of cash to buy points / miles and then use those points / miles to book premium cabin travel.

-LSB-...] first I booked JFK - LAX - PVG - HKG in business on Dreamliner, but then AA flooded the market -LRB--RRB- with premium seat Saver awards in practically all directions, and I decided to go for the -LSB-...]

This is just another reason I'm not surprised they changed their Star Alliance award chart, as I'm sure they want to ensure that booking an award ticket to experience this new product cost a premium regardless of how it is booked.

Korean is known for having some of the best premium - cabin award availability, although it isn't always easy to book.

Just keep in mind that Singapore Airlines often restricts awards for their premium cabins to their own members, so you might struggle to find any open seats to book with Virgin America miles.

These awards still have fuel surcharges, but they are usually much less than when booking premium cabin flights on Virgin Atlantic metal.

Though United has majorly devalued its award chart, the fact that it doesn't charge or pass on fuel surcharges makes MileagePlus miles one of the best ways to book many highly desirable airlines and premium cabins that would otherwise require at least $ 500 in fees.

Because many airlines only release their premium cabin space to members of their own frequent flyer programs, transferring American Express points gets you access you don't have when you book partner award flights through your usual frequent flyer program.

Purchase / share miles transactions are instant, if you are considering buying / share miles to book premium cabin awards.

However, if you can book a premium cabin award on a United - operated flight, you'll often get it at below - market cost.

While the American Airlines AAnytime rewards have long represented a decent value proposition a significant increase in perks for around twice the miles, similar to booking a premium economy award the new award chart that went into effect this June has completely changed that landscape.

While a route serviced by an A350 should be an aircraft where premium award seats can be made available, it's likely that availability for business class seats will be scarce so I wouldn't rely on booking these seats with partners like United.

If you're looking to book international flights in premium cabins, those fares tend to be quite a bit higher than domestic first, so while you'll still get two cents per points in value, you'll likely need fewer points or miles to book traditional award tickets.

As you can see, even though we don't usually recommend booking a premium class award ticket with Membership Rewards points, there are exceptions.

And even if you're one of those people that would only ever book an award flight, the premium from booking a pure award flight to this upgrade isn't much considering the large taxes and fuel surcharges on BA award travel.

If I do book my own awards, they're international and in premium cabins.

Wan na Get Away Fare Redemptions: Although I often talk of the value of transferable points thanks to the flexibility they give you to top up accounts and book premium international tickets on a whim, Rapid Rewards represents the flip side of award tickets where you know you are getting a great (semi) fixed value on award tickets of about 1.8 - 2 cents each on Wan na Get Away (leisure) fares and you can redeem them for any open seat on a flight, just as if you were buying it.

When the Hilton booking engine determines the number of HHonors points required to book a premium room award night, it applies a mechanical calculation, multiplying the revenue cost of the room by a constant HHonors point valuation to arrive at a total cost in HHonors points.

Another possibility is to do a mixture of awards and paid flights and / or even have one parent and the child travel separately, as my family often does, in order to book premium class award tickets.

While I'm happy to book the discounted rate, I've been digging around trying to find some explanation (was there a European premium room award promotion I missed?).

- Miles & More is the mileage program of Lufthansa as well as Austrian and SWISS, and members get more access to premium award tickets - All three airlines are part of Star Alliance, so you can use these miles on any of the 27 partner airlines including US Airways and United (and Miles & More awards can be booked one - way, which US Airways awards can not)- You can book a roundtrip domestic business class award on United and US Airways for 35,000 miles, or a first class ticket for 50,000 miles.

A month later it became possible again to book Air France premium cabin awards using Delta miles.

You can't book international First class, which takes away flexibility when trying to find premium cabin award space.