British Airways: Household accounts allow members to pool Avios points between seven people who share the same address, and it happens to have very
cheap domestic awards if you're flying nonstop for short distances.
If you're new to the «travel rewards» world, booking
cheap domestic award flights might be your way of getting your feet wet before you book an international award flight or a first class flight that will require more miles.
If you're looking for the best value, you need to consider some of our suggestions for
the cheapest domestic award flights.
New,
cheaper domestic awards and a much larger list of international parters have long made it one of my favorite loyalty programs.
Not exact matches
In contrast, because
domestic flights in India are typically
cheap, it is not often a good
award value to use Flying Blue for purely
domestic India
award flights.
Singapore Airlines»
award chart is not the
cheapest and they do add fuel surcharges on
award tickets (except on
domestic United Airlines flights).
I find Delta to be one of the least transparent airlines so when it comes to planning
domestic award trips, I'm not sure that I'd count on Delta to be offering great deals, but stumbling upon such
cheap award flights would always be a tempting option for me if it actually worked with my schedule.
In many cases, American's off peak tickets are the
cheapest awards among the
domestic legacy carriers.
That's
cheaper than paying the standard 25,000 miles for a
domestic North America
award.
In many cases, Southwest
award flights are
cheaper than United's flat - rate
domestic fares of 10,000 miles one - way for flights 700 miles or less and 12,500 for all other U.S. flights.
Inter-island
award redemption price out
cheaper than typical
domestic award tickets.
One way
awards start at 4,500 Avios for flights outside the U.S. and 7,500 Avios for those originating or terminating in the U.S. Even with the slightly more expensive price for U.S. short haul
awards, they are still
cheaper than
domestic awards on the big 3 US carriers which are typically 10,000 - 12,500 each way.
I haven't listed economy prices because many are now somewhat competitive with the US
domestic airline
award prices, but in many cases are still
cheaper.
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.
On the redemption side, the program offers very
cheap short - haul
awards (as low as 4,500 miles in economy or 9,000 in business class), thus perfect for
domestic flights within Japan (with no taxes!)
These are the two best cards for
domestic economy flights since they can be used for the
cheapest or most convenient itinerary without having to search for
award space AND you get all the perks of a paid ticket like earning miles and status.
Alaska Mileage Plan ran an
award sale starting Aug. 30 through Oct. 31, offering deals as
cheap as 5,000 miles one - way on select
domestic routes such as San Diego to Salt Lake City.
If you managed to get the
cheapest award seats available, those points would buy 12
domestic fares of 25,000 points each.
Flights to Mexico from the US cost the same as
domestic routes at 12,500 miles one - way, coming in
cheaper than Delta and United
awards.