Most economy
class redemption levels, with the exception of Taiwan domestic awards and flights between North and South / Central America, are less competitive than what's offered by U.S. - based programs.
Just make sure you have enough extra miles as Delta's business
class redemption levels are rising.
Not exact matches
A business
class ticket to Europe costs only 100,000 Flying Club miles round - trip, which has become a great deal after Delta raised its own
redemption levels to 140,000 SkyMiles.
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.
Asiana Club has excellent business and first
class products and reasonable
redemption levels: 105,000 — 125,000 miles in business and 140,000 — 160,000 in first for the greater part of the year.
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.
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.
Most economy
level redemptions remained the same or even improved while business and first
class awards took the biggest hits.
It will be interesting to see their
redemption levels, but I expect at least 200,000 miles in Business
Class between North America and Japan based on their current values.
Low
level award
redemptions for premium business
class international round - trip tickets can usually be found for 140,000 miles, but Delta occasionally has flash sales where those awards cost just 110,000 miles.
Redemption levels to southern South America, Europe and Asia are also quite reasonable, especially in Premier
Class.
Not only did they devalue their premium
redemptions a year ago, but even those devalued miles are not easy to redeem for first or business
class travel on United metal — and traveling on United metal is the only way it can make sense, since the
redemption levels on their Star partners are simply insane!
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.
The airline releases more business
class award seats at the saver
redemption level than economy seats.
With first
class partner
redemptions on United now pricing at 110,000 miles each way from the U.S. to Europe, the elimination of the low 4,500 Avios
level award band for domestic short - hops via British Airways, and Southwest points worth less than ever before, it's hard to suggest that Ultimate Rewards still has the strongest stable of transfer partners.
Maybe this has been mentioned in the past, or maybe i'm a lower
class peasant who can enjoy C, but one nice aspect of alaska miles is that u can actually get delta C
class at a reasonable
redemption level, better than u can get using skymiles, at least from my experience