Sentences with phrase «expensive award charts»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Virgin America utilizes a revenue - based award chart on its own flights, which means a more expensive cash flight will require more reward points to book.

After the award chart was dropped, Hilton stopped releasing updates on rate changes, so the only way to know if a hotel got more affordable or expensive was to just keep an eye on the rates of that specific hotel.

No economy booking is more expensive in miles on Delta's award chart than US to Southwest Pacific, the region in which Delta places Australian destinations.

But British Airways distance - based award chart actually makes that trip less expensive, mileage-wise so you could credit this particular flight on American to BA.

An award ticket from North America to Australia on Qantas is one of the most expensive redemptions in China Eastern's charts.

The reasons are numerous but they boil down to four main points: 1) no published award chart, 2) horribly expensive / inconsistent dynamic pricing for awards, 3) constant devaluations (with no notice), and 4) uninformed phone agents.

The more expensive redemption rate could sit as an additional layer above the current award chart.

As a result, one can't easily compare the award charts of two different programs and say that one is «more expensive» than another.

The British Airways award chart is distance based and they also have a penchant for adding expensive fuel surcharges to long - haul flights.

So even though you have followed all of United's routing rules, the award will price out more expensive than it should based on the 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.

They've updated their award charts and lowered the percentage on the less expensive ticket fares, as View From The Wing reported last week.

This seems quite suspicious considering United just slashed its award chart making it more expensive to book tickets effective Feb. 1, 2014 — and no doubt more travelers are making award ticket reservations between now and that date.

Cathay Pacific's award chart is distance based, and even more expensive at 85,000 miles each way.

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.

Partners awards can be expensive due to distance based award chart.

I didn't fret when Hyatt devalued its award chart last year because I didn't have any interest in the most expensive Category 7 properties, but those are now just 24,000 points instead of 30,000 points per night.

Hilton HHonors offers a better transfer rate, with 1,500 HHonors points for 1,000 Membership Rewards points, but the award chart is quite expensive.

And because the Avios award chart generally gets more expensive as the distance increases, there are actually some routes that get cheaper if you break them up correctly.

They're pushing up mileage earning but they're capping that earning for the most expensive tickets, while they're pushing up the cost of awards too (not just through the award chart, err elimination of award charts, but elimination of stopovers and refusal to fix the broken pricing engine).

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.

These flights used to be the most expensive redemption option on the economy award chart, at 45,000 miles each way.

Moving on to the more expensive «Jump» zone of the award chart, a nonstop flight from Chicago (ORD) to LAX is 1,744 miles, meaning award tickets start at 10,000 miles.

6) Understand that there are four different award charts and creating itineraries with multiple carriers can get very expensive.

This means that even with the New British Airways Avios Devaluation, the AAdvantage award chart devaluation will make it more expensive to book Cathay Pacific First Class between NYC JFK and Vancouver YVR — 55K AAdvantage miles vs. 50K British Airways Avios.

Making matters worse, the Southeast Asia zone in most airline award charts is typically one of the top two most expensive (along with Australia / New Zealand) when departing from the US.