Seeing a round trip Business
Class redemption increase from 105,000 AAdvantage miles to 150,000 AAdvantage miles really hurts!
A round trip Business
Class redemption increases from 120,000 AAdvantage miles to an eye - watering 170,000 miles.
Not exact matches
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.
The ~ 22 %
increase in
redemption price for first
class still isn't horrible to me.
And if I had elected to fly first
class instead the prices
increase exponentially to anywhere from $ 9,000 - $ 11,000 per round trip ticket making my
redemption even more valuable.
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.
Some people prefer making value
redemptions to maximize on luxury (like spending miles travelling business
class), while others simply want to
increase their travel frequency and reduce out of pocket expenses.
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.
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.
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.
As of November 1, many business
class and first
class redemptions will see the mileage requirements
increase.
Well, the «glory days» have now come to an end — as of today, Alaska Mileage Plan
redemptions for Emirates have skyrocketed, with first -
class award
increases jumping as high as 100 %.
While a Business
Class roundtrip to the Maldives on Qatar or Etihad Airways used to cost only 60,000 Advantage miles, this award
redemption increased to 85,000 miles since March 2016 (but that is still an excellent deal and considerably less as compared to other frequent flyer programs, which charge at least 110,000 miles).