Sentences with phrase «expensive award»

You can get a separate and more expensive award ticket rather than the cheaper saver fares, but that may require you to pay standard rates or even buy two tickets.

Already they have one of the most insanely expensive award charts for long haul premium cabin travel.

It's worth knowing that the most expensive award night is 50,000 points.

If you have a particularly expensive award in mind, then this is the better way to go.

So for expensive award flights or hotel stays, you'll often spend fewer miles or points by transferring other flexible points to travel partners.

It turned out to mean more expensive award pricing — and completely dysfunctional award search.

Those award flights may not be for the routes you find useful, or they may include especially expensive awards that don't make good use of your miles.

Though not huge changes, there will be more expensive awards out there.

Combine your points with a spouse or family member to make expensive awards more attainable.

However, more expensive awards do exist if you want last - seat availability.

But for first class, or if you want to buy a more expensive award with last seat availability, the prices are pretty much the same.

But the most expensive award ticket is for first class between Africa and South America.

But with bishops in other states turning to bankruptcy to protect their dioceses from expensive awards in abuse cases, the Catholic Conference of New York became an early line of defense when the Child Victims Act was first introduced more than a decade ago.

Another example is that if you can only find more expensive award space, you might be able to each book a one - way award ticket to Hawaii and combine the remainders to book a third one - way award.

This not only means we get better benefits when we redeem those points but it's also easier to book more expensive awards such as the St. Regis Bali for our honeymoon.

This figure doesn't show any upsets in the ranking — every program still ranks the same when it comes to its most expensive award category.

Hilton has the most expensive award rates in absolute terms, reaching as high as 95,000 points per night.

Unlike New York to Atlanta, for which every day offered at least one of the least expensive awards, now some days cost more and others cost less.

Since the first of the year Priority Club introduced a new 9 - tier reward chart, Starwood raised the price of cash and points awards, Marriott introduced a new more expensive award tier and a points price increase for 36 % of their properties.

Of course, Hilton Honors still has one of the more expensive award charts in absolute terms.

Some frequent fliers, known as «travel hackers,» take advantage of distance - based programs by earning lots of miles on cheap flights and then redeeming them for more expensive award tickets.

This chart can result in significantly more expensive award prices at times, so I would generally try to avoid using Avios to book flights with two or more oneworld partners.

This puts it on par with United Airlines, which has the same policy but much more expensive awards in terms of mileage.

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.

But the more expensive award chart means you are unlikely to book as many nights as you would have in the past, reducing the opportunity to use the greater benefits of Diamond status.

And to recognize, you don't always need a fancy plaque or an expensive award,» Ribas adds.

If that's the case, why jump into an expensive awards season with one arm tied behind your back?

When American went revenue - based, they greatly devalued their loyalty program resulting in more expensive awards.

And oddly enough, the needlessly complicated 5 - tier Delta award chart (which of course doesn't actually exist, wink, wink) means that when lowest - level redemptions aren't available on any airline and you're considering a more expensive award, Delta may actually be cheaper than the others thanks to all their intermediate award tiers.

However, experts say paying too much per mile can still work in your favor if you need only a small number of miles to reach an expensive award ticket.

If you don't want to splurge on a more expensive award ticket to fly a partner airline across the Pacific Ocean, you can still get a taste by booking an intra-Asia award.

When American went revenue - based, they greatly devalued their loyalty program resulting in more expensive awards.

These were expensive awards to begin with and are now prohibitive for most travelers.

Despite what some people say about Hilton having an expensive award chart, it's all about perspective.

If you redeem more miles for an expensive award, you deserve to get higher priority.

However, changes to the cabin class, route, or award type (more expensive awards have more availability), will require a $ 12 fee.

When people complain that Hilton has some expensive award redemptions, I point out that they make it extremely easy to earn points faster.

This can be beneficial when trying to book a more expensive award or when trying to take advantage of someone's elite status during the stay.

But in addition to the «low» - level award inventory travel hackers love so dearly, American, United, and Alaska Airlines also offer more expensive awards that escape most capacity controls.

The carrier's loyalty program, TAM Fidelidade, has a few excellent redemption options in its generally complicated and expensive award chart.

The main benefit is you can redeem them for larger, more expensive awards.

I recall the upgrade to a pool suite was something like an extra 2,000 points or $ 100 a night on top of what's already an expensive award redemption.

Ignore the checkbox for «Flights allowing changes only» since these are going to be more expensive awards that are not available to partner carriers like Delta or Alaska Airlines.

Hopefully they'll be more available seats after March because I think that cheap award prices and no availability is worse than an expensive award chart with some availability.

With a single program, miles will be able to be used both for saver awards and the more expensive awards that give you any available seat regardless of airline (currently that can only be done with US Airways miles on US Airways, and American miles on American).

If your ticket costs more, you need to buy up to a more expensive award.