To give a more comprehensive view, I decided to compare the 2015 revenue - and distance - based loyalty programs taking into account both
the cost per mile flown and elite status.
As you can see, the actual breakeven
cost per mile flown varies tremendously — in both directions.
Not exact matches
The hybrid electric jet will seat up to 12 people,
fly up to 700
miles and have operating
costs of 8 cents
per seat
mile, below the operating
costs of small turboprops and business jets powered by jet fuel.
Analyst Jamie Baker also cited pending
cost increases, estimating a 55 cent effect on earnings
per share and 5 percentage - point boost in
costs for each seat
flown a
mile next year from expected new employee contracts.
Domestic U.S. flights
cost the same 25,000
miles per round trip in both programs, but unlike Delta, there are no close - in fees for
Flying Blue if you must travel within the next three weeks.
Domestic U.S. flights
cost the same 25,000
miles per round trip in both programs, but unlike Delta, there are no close - in fees for
Flying Blue if you must travel within the next three weeks.
For example, suppose hypothetically that five years ago,
flying 50,000
miles would have
cost me $ 5,000 (10 cents
per mile), and now, if there's say, 20 % inflation since five years ago, it
costs me $ 6,000 (12 cents
per mile).
A flight between the U.S. and Europe will only
cost you 40,000
miles per roundtrip if you
fly between October 15 and May 15.
For example, the
flying distance between New York and Tampa, is just a hair above 1,000
miles which means it would
cost 7,500 Avios
per one - way flight if there was a non-stop flight between these two cities on American.
American Airlines still awards 1 Elite Qualifying
Mile (EQM)
per mile flown regardless of the cabin you
fly in or the
cost of the ticket so, with a trip length of 19,938
miles I will earn 19,938 EQM at a
cost of just 4.0 cents
per mile.
Compare that to the 120,000 United
miles it will
cost you to
fly first class one way from the US to «North Asia» on one of their partner airlines (
per their award chart).
Flying to Hong Kong from New York or other parts of the U.S. will
cost more than from the West Coast, but it's still a reasonably good deal in business for 145,000
miles (145,000 AMEX points)
per round trip.
Domestic U.S. flights
cost the same 25,000
miles per round trip in both programs, but unlike Delta, there are no close - in fees for
Flying Blue if you must travel within three weeks.
Best
Miles / Points Redemption: American Airlines
flies discounted award flights to Europe from October 15 - May 15, meaning a round - trip
costs only 40,000 AA
miles per person.
We know that the
cost of traveling from Anchorage to Tampa
cost me about 9.2 cents
per mile I
fly ($ 700 / 7,640 = 0.0916).
-LSB-...] As you can see above, the best economy awards in this mid-distance part of the chart are Iberia and BA awards which
cost 4 to 5 Avios
per mile flown.
Usually a basic economy fare will
cost you 25,000
miles and up to 40,000
miles depending on if you
fly during a peak travel time, but since I live in Alaska ticket prices are usually $ 200 +
per ticket and 7,500 - 15,000 more in rewards
miles than in most of the lower 48 states.
You first have to find out what it would
cost per mile to
fly from point A to point B. Lets say I wanted to
fly from Anchorage (ANC) to Tampa (TPA) to go visit granny for a week.