While she only has a few
business class trips under her belt, she has always enjoyed the ability to just hop on a plane for whichever flights were open!
Typically, you'll want to
keep business class trips under 3,000 miles each way to maximize value but there are plenty of ways to do that.
«If you have enough
for business class trip to Europe, by God, yes, you're going to pay that $ 29,» says Pulliam Weston.
One of these bookings is a round - trip
business class trip on Brussels Airlines between New York (JFK) and Brussels for 88,000 miles.
One of them is that you only need 60,000 miles for a roundtrip
Business Class trip from any airport in the contiguous 48 U.S. states to the South American countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, or Manaus (Brazil).
If you're planning on using the miles you buy to book a pre-devaluation
Business Class trip between the US and Europe on American Airlines it will cost you 100,000 AAdvantage Miles + taxes (for a round - trip award).
Early next year I have a Qatar
Airways Business Class trip booked to Bangkok and, between that trip and a flight I'm taking just after New Year, I'll have BA Silver status sown up before January is out (my BAEC year starts in December but I'll be crediting flights to AAdvantage up until the end of this year)... but Silver status isn't of much use to me as I already hold Lifetime Platinum status with AAdvantage and that gives me most of the same benefits as BA Silver.
This is an extremely small sample size of the possibilities of credit card churning, mainly in South America (for no other reason than I am currently
planning business class trips there).
This traveler should hold off registration until after the
second Business Class trip is complete as the Full Fare Economy Class trip combined with the First Class trip will earn the most bonus points when combined (18,000).
Purchasing enough miles for a USA — Europe —
USA Business Class trip, for example, will cost you $ 2,162 (57,500 x 2 x $ 0.0188) and you'll have to pay some taxes on your award redemption.
But for us regular folk who use to save miles for two or three years to take that
special business class trip to Europe, we now have to save up over ten to 15 years to get that same business class freebe.
For some travelers, it might make more sense to credit a United flight to another airline — I credited an
ANA business class trip to Asiana late last year because it earned more useful miles for me.
World Elite is pretty disappointing, even if you do
regular business class trips it's rarely cheaper using their booking service even WITH the discounts offered.
That's a bit more than the US Airways deal, but $ 1690 for 100,000 miles (ie, a
free business class trip to Europe) is a great deal if you were going there anyway.
I couldn't find a single SAAver Business Class award on this route through the end of the schedule so, if you don't want to part with cash, a one -
way Business Class trip will cost between 110,000 and 135,000 miles (compared to 57,500 at the SAAver level).
«Early next year I have a Qatar
Airways Business Class trip booked to Bangkok and, between that trip and a flight I'm taking just after New Year, I'll have BA Silver status sown up before January is out»
Another potential use is to transfer to United which, together with the bonus from either the targeted United 65,000 miles card or the Chase Sapphire Preferred, will get you ~ 100,000 miles or enough for
a business class trip to Europe.
Using 130,000 KrisFlyers, I just booked
a business class trip to the Seychelles for next year!
The second part of my argument is that the current miles system attracts me to stay with the legacy airlines rather than fly with Virgin America and their newer planes... I'm attracted to the fact that I can fly 60,000 miles as a mid-tier elite on Delta and earn 120,000 miles, that I can then use for
a business class trip to Asia.
Put simply: If you have three trips you plan to book and the first is an Economy Class trip and the next two are
Business Class trips, don't register for the promotion until after you've completed the Economy Class trip — that way you maximise your bonus.
This traveler should hold of registration until after the first Economy Class trip is complete to ensure that the two
Business Class trips are the ones that count towards the promotion.
Those 154,000 UR points take us three quarters of the way toward two
business class trips to Europe on a Star Alliance partner like Swiss, and those 54,000 SPG points can be used for cash + points awards for four to six nights at some very nice hotels.
Last year I used a $ 200 Delta credit, courtesy of an Amex offer, to book an $ 888 Business Class flight on Air France / Delta and I used the same offer to lower the cost of a Premium Economy /
Business Class trip that Joanna & I took to New York.
If you're hoping to use the miles from this promotion to book
a Business Class trip between the US and Europe on American Airlines it will cost you 115,000 AAdvantage Miles + taxes (for a round - trip award).
of my vouchers on
a business class trip to New York and coming back via Miami later on this year.
So, even the cheapest promotion fares will earn double miles and
a business class trip can earn you 8x bonus miles — that's a pretty amazing promotion!
If you get all these cards, including two Chase United cards, you will have enough miles (after meeting the threshold) to book
a business class trip for two on United to Europe and even Asia.
That's only 5,000 miles short of having enough miles for a roundtrip
business class trip to Europe or a one way on the Etihad First Class Apartment to or from the Middle East.
That's a one - way
business class trip to Europe on a Star Alliance carrier if you transfer the points to and book through United Airlines.
On
a business class trip from the US to Asia, I experienced four different seats, resulting in a very inconsistent experience.
«With a little diligence and planning, miles can get
you a business class trip worth thousands — way more than 2 percent cash back would end up offering,» Barnard adds.
Really glad that worked or else
our business class trip would not be possible.
The business class trip to New York was added onto an itinerary to South America and the trip back from New York was added on as a free one - way for a trip to the Cayman Islands in February 2014.
Scored a one - way
business class trip to Paris July 2018 for only 39K MR points and $ 5.60!!!