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United did not touch the cost of an economy class award redemption in the U.S., which remains at 25,000 miles, and it continues to offer one - way award redemptions, unlike some other majors.

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Except for Melbourne, the redemption rates for economy, business, and first class awards from the U.S. to major cities in eastern Australia will require the same number of Japan Airlines Mileage Bank miles.

Awards redeemed in this way can garner a $ 0.02 / point value or more, which you will get with business and first class redemptions.

The most common award redemption is a domestic flight for 25,000 miles round trip in economy class.

This is one decent first class redemption that is still left in American Airlines» award chart after the 2016 devaluation.

However, adding a short - haul economy flight to a long - haul business or first class flight may, as in my example, drastically reduce the number of Iberia Avios required for your award redemption.

Countries Visited: 84 Favorite First Class: Emirates A380 Suites Favorite Business Class: Delta One Suite Business Class A350 Best Redemption Value: The one - way 12,500 mile Delta awards to Alaska in the summer.

Do note that Flying Blue's best award redemptions tend to be in economy class vs business and offer low rates to places like Hawaii, Central and South America, and even Europe at costs less than many of their partner airlines included Alaska or Delta.

The award chart shows the same redemption level — 15,000 miles — for all round - trip intra-Japan flights in economy class, no matter the distance.

United's current business class award redemption rate is 57,500 miles (though this is changing in November with MileagePlus» most recent devaluation), and will usually be through either Amsterdam or Brussels.

Etihad also presents a wealth of opportunities, including Etihad's own first class redemptions, redemptions on American at the old, pre-devaluation levels, as well as the cheapest transatlantic business class award seat redemption in the world.

AeroMexico offers tremendous value for award redemptions all over the world, and the best way to redeem AeroMexico Miles is in Business Class.

And the increases here are nothing like we've seen in cases involving some of the other top first class cabins like Alaska's overnight nuking / devaluation of Emirates awards, which drastically altered possibilities for aspirational redemptions.

With a load factor of 84 %, the carriers are constantly tweaking the cost of award flights by either raising redemption levels or reducing the saver award inventory, especially in first and business classes.

And that 100,000 award in business class is also one of the best redemption rates to get to Europe in business class — it beats out all of the rates from major US airlines and competes with some of the best available redemptions (fees may be around $ 250).

Virgin Atlantic has great award redemption values for flights between the U.S. (especially Eastern U.S.) and Europe in both classes, economy and business, although outrageous Heathrow Airport fees and fuel surcharges in Upper Class make business class TY redemptions on Virgin a less attractive opClass make business class TY redemptions on Virgin a less attractive opclass TY redemptions on Virgin a less attractive option.

Remember that United's award redemptions for first class and business class seats are some of the most expensive in the game.

Yes, British Airways did push through a massive increase in their premium class redemptions, affecting most of their business awards and all of the first class ones.

80,000 Starpoints (which will convert to 100,000 JAL Miles) for a roundtrip First Class award in one of the better First Class cabins around can be a great redemption.

If you need to look in a higher redemption class, see if you can get an award ticket for the same or fewer points by moving up a class of service.

Though I'm primarily discussing economy redemptions here, I also wanted to mention that booking through Virgin Atlantic, you can get first - class award tickets for domestic travel in the U.S. for an absolute steal: just 45,000 miles.

Yesterday American Airlines announced a huge number of changes to their AAdvantage loyalty program, including much higher award prices for their most valuable redemptions in business and first class.

Even with recent devaluations to the United MileagePlus loyalty program, that remains a good value for several types of award redemptions, particularly in international business class.

This means that there can be some great value to be had if you select the right redemption options — like Cathay Pacific in Business or First Class between Europe and Asia (not a hard award to find), LAN Business Class from the US to South American and Korean Air Business Class between the US and Asia.

American have continued their assault on award redemptions to Hawaii by implementing a 40 % increase in the number of miles needed for a Business Class ticket but, in the case of partner awards, this doesn't make much difference as most people would be flying to Hawaii on American Airlines and not a partner airline anyway.

If American doesn't alter the cost of Economy or Business Class awards then, depending on how Premium Economy is squeezed in, there could be some very good value redemptions to be had (Premium Economy if the premium over Economy Class is low or Business Class if the premium over PE is low... it will be one or the other).

The 56.3 % increase in miles needed for a First Class redemption between Europe and the Middle East / Indian Subcontinent is a hammer blow to anyone wanting to book Etihad's First Class cabin and, at 230,000 AAdvantage miles for a round trip First Class award to Australia on Qatar Airways, that award just became a whole lot harder to achieve.

As stated, award availability for (saver) business class to New Zealand on United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with business class seats between the US and Australia / New Zealand.

In general, JMB has a generous redemption scheme, but unfortunately they are going to devalue the program for premium class award redemptions after November 1, 2015.

On the other hand, a business class Travel Together Ticket redemption between Seattle and London in August (the earliest I was able to find award space) would cost 150,000 Avios and $ 2,514, while two paid tickets would cost $ 8,093, giving you roughly 3.7 cents per Avios.

Korean Air has a competitive business class point redemption shown on their Skyteam North American Award Chart, so I knew we would be in for an incredible experience.

Keep in mind changes were expected as some of the awards were dirt cheap compared to other airlines especially for Business and First class redemptions.

Another 30,000 miles (25,000 transferred Starpoints) would get you a one - way flight from Europe in Lufthansa first class, with increased access to award seats compared to redemptions of partner award miles.

US Airways» best redemption is their roundtrip award from the US to North Asia in first class for 120,000 miles.

Using ExpertFlyer.com I can see that, in the first week the A380 begins service to London, there are 3 First Class seats available for award redemption on almost every day — and in both directions!

Also, if you're interested in business class or first class award redemptions, you're going to have to spend much, much more on your Capital One Venture card than on a card like the Chase Sapphire Preferred to earn anywhere near the miles needed for those redemptions.

Though Miles & More awards carry high fuel surcharges, their redemption rates are relatively comparable to the main domestic airlines, though occasionally with a bit of a discount, such as 50,000 miles for round - trip flights between the U.S. and Europe in economy class.

So in some instances, business class redemptions are cheaper per the new award chart.

Some of the best include the following: United Airlines, which opens up access to the huge Star Alliance network of carriers; British Airways, offering great value on short - haul nonstop flights due to their distance - based award chart; Korean Airlines, with amazing award availability in their first class cabins; and Hyatt, which is widely recognized as offering some of the highest value point redemption opportunities of any hotel chain.

Per the current award chart, you would need 87,125 miles (after 15 % discount for online redemption's) and INR 22,728, which includes INR 18,102 in carrier surcharges for a one way award in Suite class.

Instead of having a pretty straight forward distance based award chart with redemption rates by fare class for economy, Economy FlexyFlyer, Premium Economy and business class tickets, PAL introduced multiple award levels for each fare class: In addition to the Standard Economy awards, there are no Flex 1, Flex 2, Flex 3 and Flex 4 awards.

With the introduction of so many different award classes, the miles needed for an award have changed drastically: Some of the «Standard» awards have dropped by more than 20 % — that was to be expected as all the routes in question have offered very cheap economy fares over the last year, making a redemption on these routes generally unattractive.

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.

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!)

On the redemption side, the award chart to / from Europe isn't too bad (62,500 miles for a transatlantic one - way in business class) and you get access to much better availability on AF / KL's own flights that when booking with Delta.

Similar to the option between Houston and Moscow, this is another award redemption that has become a great value since Singapore started opening up saver award space in their new first class.

Since then Lufthansa has full - on stopped releasing first class award space more than a couple of weeks before departure, eliminating quite a few redemption opportunities in advance.