Many other airlines price Caribbean destinations in
a different award zone category, which makes award redemptions much higher on these competitors!
Not exact matches
* Destination changes to a
different zone require a cancellation of the original
award ticket (miles re-credited back to the account minus expired miles) and re - purchase / re-issue of a new ticket with a new validity period and destination.
There are four
different award charts used by ANA, of which two have seasonal variations, two are
zone - based, and two are distance - based.
I wouldn't pay $ 450 or $ 370 for a hotel room so this promotion would be no good to me if I was looking to book an
award night just with points I'd purchased but that's not how everyone feels —
different people have
different comfort
zones when it comes to hotel prices.
Although Iberia also utilizes Avios, the same currency as British Airways, the
award charts and
zones are
different sometimes.
Since US Airways has
different regional definitions, China and Hong Kong, which are in US Air's North Asia region, end up being cheaper to book as first class
awards with US Air miles, than with American, which places them in Asia
Zone 2.