Even if you don't fly British Airways often (or ever) and don't have an Executive Club account, it's still advantageous to take advantage of these short
distance awards using points transferred from a flexible rewards program.
Even if you don't fly British Airways often (or ever) and don't have an Executive Club account, it's still advantageous to take advantage of these short
distance awards using points transferred from a flexible rewards program.
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With a
distance - based
award chart, you also need to remember that any connecting flights will add to the total flight
distance used to calculate the number of miles required for your
award ticket.
Unlike the other options we have discussed, British Airways Executive Club
uses a
distance - based
award chart, so the total number of Avios required to book an
award flight will be determined by the
distance you fly.
With a
distance - based
award chart, it's particularly important to find
award flights that are nonstop so you don't have to
use more miles and points.
JAL
uses a
distance - based
award chart and is not only part of Oneworld; it also partners with Emirates (and hasn't devalued first - class redemptions like Alaska, another SPG transfer partner).
Virgin America Elevate partner flight
awards use the more traditional
distance - based
award chart method.
Aer Lingus
uses a
distance based
award chart.
Avios are the shared mileage currency of British Airways and Iberian Airlines — but you can
use them for far more than travel on these two European carriers, and you can take advantage of their
distance award chart for short flights.
Logically, we're drawn to think of
using British Airways points from Britain, but these short
distance award rules also apply to partner flights and are great redemption for other parts of the world.
ANA
used to have an awesome
distance - based
award chart allowing 3 stopovers for no additional cost.
Japan Airlines» Mileage Bank program
uses a
distance - based
award chart which is broken into tiers based on your flight miles.
Other partners
use traditional
distance - based
award charts and have some good values.
For example, Hawaiian
uses a
distance - based
award chart for flights booked on All Nippon Airways (ANA), the largest airline in Japan.
Like British Airways Executive Club, the Japan Airlines Mileage Bank program
uses a
distance - based
award chart.
Japan Airlines
uses a
distance - based
award chart; the further you fly, the better the value!
Make sure you're looking for non-stop flights whenever possible since British Airways
uses a
distance - based
award chart.
Iberia and Aer Lingus both
use distance - based charts for their Avios programs, each having both peak and off - peak
award levels.
Unlike American Airlines and many other frequent flyer programs, Japan Airlines» Mileage Bank program
uses a
distance - based
award chart.
Unlike major U.S. airlines, British Airways Executive Club
uses a
distance - based
award chart (shown above) for first class redemptions.
However, JAL Mileage Bank
uses a
distance - based
award chart, so connecting flights and flights from the Midwest and East Coast could increase the number of miles required.
For partner
awards, Japan Airlines
uses a
distance - based
award chart that is divided into tiers based on the number of flight miles.
A limited number of carriers, such as British Airways,
use distance - based pricing for
awards.
The Japan Airlines Mileage Bank program
uses a
distance - based
award chart, which is broken into tiers based on how many miles you're flying.
Partner
award bookings fall under a
distance - based
award chart while
award flights operated by Japan Airlines
use a region - based
award chart.
Since many of the programs we'll discuss
use a
distance based
award chart we'll need to get a feel for which cities Aer Lingus flies to, and the
distance of those flights from Ireland.
ANA
used to have an awesome
distance - based
award chart allowing 3 stopovers for no additional cost.
With a
distance - based
award chart, it's particularly important to find
award flights that are nonstop so you don't have to
use more miles and points.
To redeem this
award,
use the first chart and find flights with one - way flight
distances less than 4,800 miles (falling into Zone 5).
To redeem this flight
award, you must
use the third
award chart and calculate a one - way flight
distance less than 4,800 miles to be within Zone 5.
One unique aspect of Spirit compared to other budget carriers, such as Frontier and Allegiant, is that it
uses distance - based
award charts and has off - peak rates.
That
distance - based
award chart ANA
used to offer?
But it's more accurate to say that it
uses several
distance - based
award charts, depending on where you're flying and if you are
using Cathay on the route.
The draw here is that British Airways
uses a
distance - based chart to determine how many Avios each
award ticket costs.
Like British Airways, ANA (All Nippon Airways, a Japanese carrier)
uses a
distance - based
award chart.
For those who don't know, British Airways Avios points are an excellent option to
use for shorter American flights as British Airways has a
distance based
award chart.
JAL, which
uses a
distance - based
award chart for redemptions on partner airlines, has the same rate of 40,000 miles for some routes, but it can go up to 55,000 miles or more to certain destinations.
Iberia
uses a
distance - based
award system, so you can not search for multi-city itineraries.
The Virgin Atlantic ANA
award chart
used to be
distance - based but, not too long ago, this was changed to a region - based chart which looks like this:
So, while the minimum cost of a North American
award flight on other major airlines is 25,000 miles (no matter what the city pairs are), if you
use Avios and the
distance of your flight does not exceed 2,000 miles, you can get a great deal.
Because American Airlines
uses a region - based
award chart it has always meant that you could find trips of vastly differing
distances that cost the same number of AAdvantage miles (e.g. LHR - LAX - LHR vs LHR - JFK - LHR)....
Remember that British Airways
uses a
distance - based
award chart and prices each segment separately.
Have you signed up for TravelCon OC yet?British Airways Avios are a somewhat unique type of points because of the
distance - based
award chart they
use.
British Airways is one of a handful of airlines that
uses a
distance - based
award chart.
It also is significantly cheaper than booking directly with Qatar, since they
use a
distance - based
award chart which makes long - haul
awards prohibitively expensive.
British Airways
uses a
distance - based
award program, which is why the cost in miles is so low.
When booking with a partner airline, Japan Airlines Mileage Bank
uses a
distance - based
award chart.
Unlike the other programs we have looked at so far, Japan Airlines
uses a
distance - based
award chart that is broken into tiers.
The one - way
distance you fly determines the zone you will
use to price out your
award.