Sentences with phrase «cheaper than an award»

In the same way, a sufficiently high transfer bonus should make even award tickets with high taxes and fees cheaper than an award ticket booked on a more consumer - friendly airline.

This is because of a little - known peculiarity in the MileagePlus award system that prices award flights to Oceania cheaper than award flights to Australia and New Zealand, even if you fly to Oceania via Australia or New Zealand.

While they may be cheaper than some awards you could book with other programs, like Delta SkyMiles, they do require a carrier surcharge of $ 50 (about $ 55) each way in coach or $ 180 (about $ 200) each way in business class.

Not exact matches

My fitness outreach is a lot more expensive than you might imagine, although the web hosting costs me several thousand a year, that is dirt - cheap compared to the cost of liability insurance, award t - shirts, and video production costs.

Honored with the French Legion of Honor in 2001, the 2000 Acapulco Black Film Festival's Best International Film Award for Le Conte du ventre plein (aka Bellyful, 2000), the 1999 Chicago Underground Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1987 Children's Live - Action Humanitas Prize for The Day They Came to Arrest the Book, a 1972 Tony Award nomination for «Don't Play Us Cheap», two 1971 Tony Award nominations for «Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death», along with a Grammy Award nomination and Drama Desk Award for this earlier musical, Melvin Van Peebles is more than a one - note film director.

When we briefly reminded Femi about the debate spearheaded by Samuel L Jackson that argued black British actors are cast because they are cheaper than their US counterparts, the actor — who has four black British students and clients with a Bafta Award under their belt — did not respond directly to Samuel's comments, but focused on offering a different perspective.

Mr. Rangel said the state awarded UNO the $ 98 million because its schools have strong academic results and the organization has shown it can build schools faster and cheaper than the Chicago district can.

American Airlines partners with Etihad, and if you have American Airlines miles, many awards on Etihad are cheaper than using Etihad Guest Miles.

Expect to pay ~ $ 400 in fuel surcharges and taxes per long - haul segment on award bookings, but that's still cheaper than paying for a business or first class ticket.

Higher star ratings were awarded to insurers that had plans that were cheaper than the average plan cost in a higher number of states.

Option # 5: Look for awards travel on partner airlines; some of them may end up being cheaper than flights on Delta, and you may find better availability.

And oddly enough, the needlessly complicated 5 - tier Delta award chart (which of course doesn't actually exist, wink, wink) means that when lowest - level redemptions aren't available on any airline and you're considering a more expensive award, Delta may actually be cheaper than the others thanks to all their intermediate award tiers.

Economy awards are also cheaper (but not by much), while first class awards are just a touch higher than what you'll find with United MileagePlus.

You'll notice that award flights to some of the cities listed in this sale are actually cheaper than 20,000 SkyMiles.

It's one of those situations where simply buying miles and booking an award is probably cheaper than paying for a ticket outright.

(You might find it's cheaper to book an IHG hotel directly through Ultimate Rewards than to transfer the points first to IHG Rewards and book it as an award stay.)

Because Star Alliance award prices don't vary with the season, it's possible that a Star Alliance award would be cheaper than an ANA award during the high season on this route.

As a Hawaiian Airlines cardholder, you also get access to discounted award flights which can be even cheaper than saver level awards.

Always compare to cash tickets, though, because intra-Europe flights can be quite cheap — they might not even be much more than the award ticket taxes and surcharges.

This is actually cheaper than using Delta's own SkyMiles program to book an award flight on Delta!

However, there are some deals for cheaper awards than you can book elsewhere.

Option # 5: Look for awards travel on partner airlines; some of them may end up being cheaper than flights on Delta, and you may find better availability.

These off - peak awards in Economy are cheaper than they would have cost before the devaluation.

Travel to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean is actually between 8 % and 14 % cheaper now than it used to be under the old award charts.

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.

In addition to enabling consumers to compare and book cheap flights from more than 450 airlines, CheapOair's website and award - winning apps can also be used to search and book hotel rooms at discounted rates as well as compare deals from more than 30,000 rental car locations.

In some cases, buying points for an award night can provide a cheaper room than what can be achieved by paying the cash rate for a room.

However, since the prices are variable you may be able to find cheaper awards that aren't significantly more expensive than Saver level awards.

Buying miles is often cheaper than booking a long - haul business class award, especially since United does not collect fuel surcharges on any of its awards.

For the most part, it's similar if not identical to the old American Airlines award chart that has since been devalued, meaning that it's often cheaper to use Etihad miles than American Airlines miles for the exact same AA flights.

Premium class award seats on Asiana flights and some Star Alliance partner flights are notably cheaper when bought with Asiana miles rather than United MileagePlus miles.

You don't want them to look like Club Carlson, which could double its award chart at any minute and still have cheaper award nights than Hilton.

It also is significantly cheaper than booking directly with Qatar, since they use a distance - based award chart which makes long - haul awards prohibitively expensive.

Inter-island award redemption price out cheaper than typical domestic award tickets.

However, you can easily transfer miles to Korean Air from other loyalty programs like Chase Ultimate Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest, and some awards are cheaper to book through SKYPASS than through competing programs, even for travel on the same airline.

American Airlines partners with Etihad, and if you have American Airlines miles, many awards on Etihad are cheaper than using Etihad Guest Miles.

Round - the - world awards are actually cheaper than partner awards in some circumstances.

Calculating the cost of an international award on ANA avoids the Zone 1 - A / B confusion and may be cheaper than a partner award, but you may only use these awards for travel on ANA and for ANA codeshares operated by Air Japan.

Not terrible, but why use more miles than you need when United or American has plenty of award availablity for cheaper?

Of course, purchasing miles when you know that award space is available can still make sense in such situations as it's usually cheaper than buying a first or business class ticket outright.

Alaska's cheapest award starts at 10,000 miles (excluding a few intra-state routes), and most flights cost more than $ 85.

If you pay for Business or First Class flights then you can still rack up a lot of miles from flying but those of us flying at the back are seeing a far lower rate of return than ever before — Delta and United (and soon American) base the number of miles they award travelers on the cost of the ticket purchased (less taxes) so the cheaper ticket you by the fewer miles you'll earn.

US Airways has a cheaper award chart than American and US Airways will pretty much let you route any which way you want, to get to wherever you want.

Saver awards are considerably cheaper than standard awards so they're the awards most people will be trying to book.

Virgin Atlantic awards can be cheaper than British Airways awards so, if you're not in the middle of saving up for a British Airways redemption (and if Virgin Atlantic fly to where you want to go), this may be something for you to consider.

If you're looking for a cheap point redemption, or a decent hotel near the Vatican, look no further than this Quality Inn, because award bookings for only 10,000 points do not happen often and is a true steal, or as what I like to call a #DoubleWideDelight!

Yes, there may be times when it's cheaper to book an award than pay for a cash fare but the fact that award availability and the cost of fares are both linked to demand means that it's not all that likely circumstances like that will appear all that often.

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.

That's a great value for a tough award, and much cheaper than paying hundreds of dollars in fuel surcharges on British Airways.