We can go from Cincinnati to Denver in 2 Amtrak family bedrooms (sleeps 8) for only 50,000 Chase / Amtrak points, which is half the cost of one - way standard
domestic airline redemptions (8 tickets * 12,500 miles one - way = 100,000).
Not exact matches
The following chart is applicable for
redemptions on Etihad Airways, Singapore
Airlines, Air New Zealand (New Zealand
domestic and long - haul services only), SilkAir, Airberlin, Hawaiian
Airlines, and South African Airways.
The
airline's distance - based
domestic awards allows for some excellent
redemptions on short hops on Air India.
There are basically three different ways to book award flights domestically: 1) revenue - based awards with Southwest, JetBlue, or Virgin America; 2) distance - based flights with British Airways Avios; or 3) traditional region - based award
redemptions with
domestic airlines, such as United, American, Delta, and Alaskan (or any other alliance partners).
If you are planning to redeeming AA miles for
domestic travel or international travel on AA metal, you can instead use Etihad guest miles and rather save the AA miles for
redemption's on Partner
airlines (Cathay Pacific, Qatar etc..)
There are a few other partners, but these are typically the best values and also have the most extensive opportunities for
redemption (e.g., Avios can be used to book
domestic flights on American
Airlines and Alaska
Airlines).
A
domestic route on either
airline is exactly the sort likely to fit the two criteria for a good Avios
redemption.
This quarter's survey also indicated that cash remains the No. 1
redemption option at 41 percent, with
domestic airline tickets (29 percent) at No. 2 and gift cards finishing up the top three at 28 percent.
Iberia used to have a strange
redemption system that used a different miles value than most (i.e., you used to earn something like 10 or 20 points on short
domestic flights), but since the
airline merged with BA in 2010, things have taken a much more useful turn.
Though Miles & More awards carry high fuel surcharges, their
redemption rates are relatively comparable to the main
domestic airlines, though occasionally with a bit of a discount, such as 50,000 miles for round - trip flights between the U.S. and Europe in economy class.
The best FlySmiLes
redemption rates are on
domestic routes served by SriLankan
Airlines subsidiary Cinnamon Air.
To get round - trip flights on most
domestic airlines, the lowest
redemption you can find is 25,000 miles, which you'll usually need to spend $ 25,000 to accrue, so the Barclays Arrival program offers a huge savings for people who typically need this kind of flight.
You could move them to United
Airlines and find several good
redemption opportunities, and British Airways works well for short,
domestic flights that don't have carrier surcharges.
Cardholders will get special discounts and mileage accrual for
redemption with various
domestic airlines.
Thanks to some awesome partner
redemptions — like American
Airlines, Emirates, Finnair, Icelandair — you're not restricted to USA
domestic travel flying Alaska.
This card fills the gaps in a miles strategy because the rewards are perfect for cheap
domestic flights or hotels that otherwise would be bad
redemptions with traditional
airline miles and hotel points.
If one of these partner
airlines has an award chart that had a more attractive domestic US redemption, you could use miles from say, Vietnam Airlines to fly o
airlines has an award chart that had a more attractive
domestic US
redemption, you could use miles from say, Vietnam
Airlines to fly o
Airlines to fly on Delta.
Nevertheless, the it does offer some solid
redemption options — especially in
domestic markets where it competes with Alaska
Airlines.