This means if
I book my award flight via LifeMiles, I could fly on United from Houston to Chicago, Miami or Bozeman, Montana, for just 15,000 miles round trip instead of the 25,000 miles that United would want for the same flights.
Not exact matches
The same
flight booked via British Airways Avios would be slightly less — 12,500 points, but that's only if American has decided to make
award seats available on that
flight.
You can speak with Delta
via online chat or over the phone and they can add the connecting
flight so you don't have to
book separate
awards.
Although it may be possible to
book the
flight via a partner to subvert the roundtrip - only nature of Delta
award tickets, even the «low»
award price of 22,500 miles is unpalatable.
Since the regular
award cost for a roundtrip
flight between the U.S. and Europe for all major airlines is 60,000 miles, you will often come out ahead by
booking your
flight via the Citi Travel Center.
The timing of the invite perfectly coincided with TAM's last first class
flights (the airline discontinued First Class as of November 1st), therefore I
booked my
award trip using US Airways miles for 120,000 miles in First class and routed myself from Mexico City to Kuala Lumpur
via Miami, Sao Paulo and Paris.
Therefore, when you go to
book award tickets for
flights within the U.S.
via British Airways» Executive Club program, you will see AA
flights show up under the partner
flights section.
However, it may be possible to pay a lower number of miles by
booking that same
flight via the
award chart of an international partner.
For example, if you redeem 12,500 United miles for a
flight between Boston and San Diego
via Chicago, you won't earn miles in any program because your
booking class (X — Economy
award) is not eligible.
Living the dream on card rewards Those who don't know us very well may think we are living the high life, but the truth is that our $ 250 hotel room near the line of totality during the eclipse was
booked for 3,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points; our
flight to Wyoming was 100 percent free on a private plane thanks to a crazy JetSmarter promotion for those who could prove they had a million miles; our resort complete with water slides and a lazy river in San Antonio was
booked using an annual credit card
award night when the room normally costs $ 300 - plus per night; our amazing room at the Park Hyatt New York was
booked using 30,000 Hyatt points per night when the selling price was almost $ 1,000 per night; and most of our other
flights were
booked via a collection of airline miles and credit card points that were primarily earned by leveraging our everyday spending for major rewards.
See related:
Booking via travel website may affect reward miles, perks, Professional
award bookers promise «free»
flights for fewer miles
For example, with Qantas» distance - based chart, you'll redeem the same 180,000 miles for a
flight between New York and Milan, but in the case of Qantas, that's round - trip — yes, you can
book a round - trip
award via Qantas at the same rate Alaska charges for a one - way.
You can still
book award flights on these partners by searching for
award availability on other Oneworld airlines» websites;
via ExpertFlyer; or by calling AA and seeing what's available.
On ba.com no Business
awards are available... Should I
book a regular economy
award on a Cathay
Flight via calling AA, then about a week before the flight, check everyday for more Business awards to become avai
Flight via calling AA, then about a week before the
flight, check everyday for more Business awards to become avai
flight, check everyday for more Business
awards to become available?
Once we found the
flights we wanted we transferred them over and
booked the
award via phone with United and got them to waive the phone fee since their website is very broken for actually
booking award tickets.
When it comes to transferring Ultimate Rewards, you should consider whether it will cost you less points to
book your
awards via United, British Airways, Southwest or Flying Blue if you want to stick with
flights easily bookable online.