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Will KE allow mixed cabin partner awards?

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

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

Aside from the fact that this is a great airline with an excellent award redemption chart and exceptional service in all cabins, ANA is also a Star Alliance member and transfer partner with the Amex Membership Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest programs.

Using a Star Alliance partner award, anywhere in North America to Hawaii on United is 17,500 miles each way for economy class or 30,000 miles each way for first class (on a two - cabin plane) with no fuel surcharges.

Most importantly, Delta left untouched the basic deal between frequent flyer programs and their members: you can redeem your miles for «aspirational» awards in premium cabins anywhere their partner airlines fly.

My hope is that they're actually considering opening up their First cabin for partner awards — they just didn't have the right amount of space available.

Delta Air Lines devalued their partner awards overnight without notice, Virgin Atlantic devalued their award chart for flights on Delta, and Etihad cut one of their coolest perks for premium cabin passengers: chauffeur service.

Airline partners are where you will find the most value for your points, particularly on award flights in international premium cabins.

Promo awards, offering 25 - 50 percent off the standard award chart, are available each month for select flights, but most passengers will spend the bulk of their miles on classic awards, which can be used on any partner airline but not on first class cabins.

Finally, those who hope to book some of the most luxurious awards on partner Singapore Airlines will find their attempts thwarted: any award in this carrier's first class cabin on an Airbus A380 or Boeing 777 - 300ER is blocked in the system.

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer members have access to premium cabin awards (such as first and Suites class seats) not released to other partner airlines.

United explains: «We're increasing miles required in these markets for the first time in several years to account for the increased cost of providing transportation, particularly in the premium cabin and particularly on the MileagePlus partner carriers... We faced a decision other airlines have faced — to either increase the number of miles required for partner awards or to eliminate them altogether.»

United (via Star Alliance partners), Singapore and Korean all allow for aspirational international premium - cabin awards.

You can get even better value if you use miles for high - end cabins on award - winning partner airlines, such as Cathay Pacific which regularly comes in right behind Singapore Airlines» famous suites in lists of the top first class cabins.

Here's a list of the changes on Saver Award travel touching mainland US (all changes in Premium Cabin) on United partners:

Booked SWISS First One day back in November 2017 SWISS released partner award space in their First Class cabin.

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.

Booking directly with Miles & More award miles is the easiest way to get in Lufthansa's coveted first class cabin, for which seats only open for partner airlines» frequent flyer bookings two weeks before departure, and SWISS first class, which is only open to Miles & More members.

Effective April 28, British Airways has devalued their award chart for premium cabin awards (Premium Economy, Business and First class awards) Only positive change in this devaluation is the introduction of off - peak awards on British Airways awards (not applicable for partner awards like Cathay Pacific).

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.

The carrier has reduced the mileage cost of many reward flights, has increased earning levels on some partner airlines, and now allows free upgrades for elite members on award flights when they book economy cabin tickets.

While many frequent flyers use Lufthansa miles to get into their (and Swiss) first class cabins without waiting until the last minute, as Lufthansa doesn't release first class awards to partners until very close to departure, first class redemptions with Miles & More can in many cases be the worst value awards because of fees.

Aside from the fact that this is a great airline with an excellent award redemption chart and exceptional service in all cabins, ANA is also a Star Alliance member and transfer partner with the Amex Membership Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest programs.

Second, British Airways» Avios program underwent a major devaluation last April that meant some huge increases in redemption requirements for most premium - cabin and partner awards.

Since United went to separate charts for its own flights and partner flights in February 2014, I have lost interest in using United miles for premium cabin awards on its partners.

ANA and Aeroplan are transfer partners of American Express Membership Rewards (as is Singapore Airlines, useful for premium cabin awards on Singapore).

@ ray — You have to fly a partner airline to get to Thailand, and the price of that type of award in a premium cabin is increasing significantly.

United then increased the mileage required to book award tickets in J and F cabins with its airline partners - up 70 %!

Swiss used to be the most generous Star Alliance airline when it comes to releasing premium cabin award availability to Star Alliance partners.

It has trouble with some partner award availability and pulling up awards with mixed cabins (for instance, if one flight has a business - class seat availability but the next segment only has economy awards available), though that seems to have gotten better lately.

The good news is, the program is lucrative for crediting partner flights, awarding 200 - 300 % of miles flown for tickets in premium cabins on several partners including Air Canada, Air China and Lufthansa.

Tell the agent the partner airline you want to fly, and feed them the date, flight number, and cabin of the award space you found using one of the sites above.