Since KLM serves the former Dutch colonies of Saint Maarten, Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao from Amsterdam, it chooses to lump these particular destinations in with the rest of North America, and offers economy -
class award tickets there from the United States and Canada for just 25,000 miles round - trip.
Not exact matches
There are three types of economy
awards (super saver, saver and refundable) and two types of first
class awards (refundable and nonrefundable), along with two levels of Money + Miles
tickets.
While
there is nothing wrong with economy
class or budget travel, many points - pinching travelers miss out on bargains because they aren't even looking at the price of the business -
class award tickets.
But while
there are lots of great ways to earn bonus miles, Etihad has squashed one of our favorite benefits on first
class award tickets.
If
there is no
award availability in economy, then redeeming your miles for a business
class ticket still makes economic sense.
Simply put, if you want to experience this product,
there is no other way to get this
award ticket, other than transferring your points to Singapore — because Singapore doesn't release its first
class award seats to its partners.
There's a code for a first
class award ticket, one for business
class seats, and a third for economy rewards.
At 80,000 miles for a one - way First
Class ticket, and 62,500 miles for a one - way Business
Class ticket between Seoul and New York this could be one of the better
award redemptions out
there.
Yes, you still have to pay fees with Iberia, and they're much more than those typically tied to United
award flights, but if
there's no availability in business
class through other alliances, it might be worth it to you to pay the fee to get your business
class saver
tickets.
Absolutely, right now
there are two credit offers that can help you get a business
class award ticket from India to USA.
There are no
award charts that allow for Premium Economy seats to be solely booked using points or miles yet but you can use Lufthansa Miles and More miles to upgrade to Premium Economy from a paid Economy
Class ticket.
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.
As you can see, even though we don't usually recommend booking a premium
class award ticket with Membership Rewards points,
there are exceptions.
With MileagePlus you can then take Air New Zealand flights from Sydney to New Zealand on the same
award ticket, though
there's often no Business
Class space on the short 3 hour Sydney to New Zealand flight, so you may have to suck it up in coach for that leg.
Even though
there is 4 months to book those
award tickets if you want to fly CX in first
class or even business it is almost impossible to find at this point.
Conclusion: China Airlines often offers business
class tickets at much lower prices than competitors or has
award availability when
there are few other choices left.