Most round - trip
coach award tickets on American, Delta and United start at 25,000 miles, regardless of the cost of a purchased ticket on the same flights.
Look carefully and you will see that in all cases, the cheapest
coach award tickets are not changing.
The promotion only includes
coach award tickets, and you can book 1 - way or round - trip flights on Air France or KLM from:
The American Airlines
coach award tickets were 1 - way off - peak awards which cost 17,500 to 22,500 American Airlines miles per person and 40,000 to 50,000 American Airlines miles during regular times.
Not exact matches
Typical
awards include a free
ticket or a free upgrade from
coach to first class.
The «refundable»
coach and first class
award tickets have no cancellation or change fees while the regular
award tickets do.
The confusion began when the new
tickets were booked in «Y» class instead of the original «T.» T is the common code used on
award tickets and Y usually indicates paid
coach fare.
Head off for a weekend in Mexico or the Caribbean in
coach class for as little as 25,000 miles round - trip for an off - peak
award ticket, or 50,000 miles round - trip in business class for a MileSAAver
award ticket.
Nowadays it's very common for an airline to add charges to their
award tickets which, when added up, can come to as much (or more) as the price of a
Coach seat — these are the
awards you should try to avoid where at all possible.
If you haven't amassed enough miles to get an
award ticket to Hawaii, consider the Alaska Airlines
Coach Companion Fare.
I would use the miles to start reloading my Delta
award account, after using all of my 160,000 miles on an
award ticket on
coach tlv - boston, while cursing Delta for being so difficult to get
award tickets on....
A roundtrip
award ticket to Europe from the United States usually costs an average of 50,000 miles in
coach or 100,000 in business class.
Note that the child's
ticket must be in the same class of travel as at least one
ticketed adult; you can't redeem a first class
award and pay 10 % of an unrestricted
coach ticket for the lap child.
Virgin Atlantic charges a relatively minor number of miles, while British Airways charges 10 % of the normal
award, plus taxes and fees and fuel surcharges, meaning an infant lap
ticket can be almost as costly as just buying another
coach ticket.
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.
When redeeming on American Airlines, you can take advantage of American's off - peak
award tickets to Central & South America as well as Europe, which offer roundtrip
coach tickets to Europe for just 40,000 miles.
As we did our last time, we'll likely split up on the trip over and back, such that either my husband or I will get a third
award ticket, perhaps one way in business using 40,000 United miles from the over 100,000 United miles I've earned from the Ink Bold (see How to Book a Business Class Award to Hawaii) and the other a combination of AA in coach from Hawaii to the West Coast for 12,500 Avios from the British Airways Visa — 100,000 points offer plus United Business First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed for EWR -
award ticket, perhaps one way in business using 40,000 United miles from the over 100,000 United miles I've earned from the Ink Bold (see How to Book a Business Class
Award to Hawaii) and the other a combination of AA in coach from Hawaii to the West Coast for 12,500 Avios from the British Airways Visa — 100,000 points offer plus United Business First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed for EWR -
Award to Hawaii) and the other a combination of AA in
coach from Hawaii to the West Coast for 12,500 Avios from the British Airways Visa — 100,000 points offer plus United Business First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed for EWR - LAX.