His other frequent flyer miles might be better used for these trips since United still does not
collect fuel surcharges on awards and American does this only for a small number of partners.
United miles are among the most valuable of the big three carriers (United, Delta, and American) because the airline doesn't
collect fuel surcharges on any award tickets and because it allows a free stopover on round - trip tickets.
-LSB-...] British Airways
collects fuel surcharges on any award flight that has fuel surcharges on the equivalent cash flight.
Delta and American Airlines — United's two major award program competitors —
both collect fuel surcharges on some awards.
They collect fuel surcharges on any award flight that has fuel surcharges on the equivalent cash -LSB-...]
Since adding that functionality, they've also stopped
collecting fuel surcharges on those awards.
Not exact matches
KrisFlyer
collects fuel surcharges for
awards on its own flights.
I originally started
collecting them thinking I'd suck up the
fuel surcharges flying Boston to London
on Virgin Atlantic Upper Class with good
award availability.
American will still
collect some taxes and fees, but they will be reduced since it does not pass
on the cost of any
fuel surcharges for
award travel
on Etihad.
Reports are that the original memo said specifically that
fuel surcharges were to be
collected on award tickets.
Buying miles is often cheaper than booking a long - haul business class
award, especially since United does not
collect fuel surcharges on any of its
awards.
British Airways
collects fuel surcharges (sometimes renamed «carrier
surcharges»)
on all
award travel and also requires a lot of Avios for long - haul
awards in business and first class.
That represents a 25 - 33 % increase in costs for what were already the most expensive
awards, and British Airways is STILL
collecting fuel surcharges on these tickets.
Instead British Airways is
collecting fuel surcharges on almost all
awards, making those
awards very poor values.
British Airways
collects nasty
fuel surcharges on a lot of
awards, but as you can see exemplified above, there are many options with no
fuel surcharges (and even more with low ones — mainly short, direct economy flights).
If you are
collecting miles with United, Avianca, TACA, or US Airways (soon to be part of One World Alliance), you don't need to worry about it because they don't pass
on fuel surcharges to
award tickets.
British Airways
collects fuel surcharges on almost all
award redemptions.
None of those programs
collect fuel surcharges on United
awards, and all allow connecting United flights free of charge.
British Airways is the poster child when it comes to
collecting fuel surcharges (YQ)
on award tickets.
American only
collects fuel surcharges on British Airways and Iberia
award flights, so there were no other taxes, fees, or
fuel surcharges.
Flights leaving Brazil can not have
fuel surcharges, so miles that otherwise
collect fuel surcharges on most
awards are especially well used from Brazil to Europe.
Iberia
collects far lower
fuel surcharges on its own
award flights than British Airways
collects.
As far as I know, Etihad does not
collect fuel surcharges on partner
awards.