Sentences with phrase «expensive award tickets»

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.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Other airlines generally require you to purchase a much more expensive ticket if you want to be able to cancel it, and will charge a fee to cancel award tickets unless you have status with that airline.

You can sometimes get more value by being flexible and booking Saver or partner awards when cash tickets are expensive.

Other airlines generally require you to purchase a much more expensive ticket if you want to be able to cancel it, and will charge a fee to cancel award tickets unless you have status with that airline.

Upgrade awards on Korean Air flights are limited to generally expensive fare classes on paid tickets, so your ticket may not be eligible.

If you need to go somewhere that requires purchasing an expensive ticket, you'll want to check out award options on one of the carriers that charges the same no matter how much the ticket costs, like United or American.

With Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia, things get more expensive because many foreign carriers impose fuel surcharges on award tickets.

This often makes economy award tickets too expensive to make sense, but the fees are much more reasonable when you're redeeming for first class.

While an award ticket to Asia on a United partner airline can be expensive, there are three main reasons that make it worthwhile.

You probably can't book a business or first class award ticket, since those are significantly more expensive in cash terms than when using miles.

If that seems too expensive to you though, you can buy the 55,000 miles (40,000 + 16,000 bonus) you need for the award ticket for just $ 1182.50 including taxes.

Majority of airlines require flyers to buy more expensive tickets if they wish to cancel and normally charge a cancellation fee for award bookings, unless the flyers have some status with the respective airline.

The great thing about companion awards is that they're much less expensive than regular award tickets.

Other airlines generally require you to purchase a much more expensive ticket if you want to be able to cancel it, and will charge a fee to cancel award tickets unless you have status with that airline.

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

As you can see, first class awards to Asia can get very expensive, but business class tickets are more reasonable, especially with zero fuel surcharges.

Most other programs put Israel in the Middle East, which makes an award ticket much more expensive.

British Airways» economy award tickets can be so padded with taxes and fees that they're almost as expensive as cash tickets.

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.

Normally the best use of frequent flyer miles is for international premium cabin awards because these are expensive tickets if you pay with cash but not very expensive if you pay with miles.

And having access to partner airlines offers the option to avoid expensive surcharges on award tickets.

Most changes and cancellations require a $ 45 fee per ticket, and there are no fees for «Flex Awards,» which are more expensive.

Award tickets on Star Alliance members between North America and the Southwest Pacific are very 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.

It really can be a solid alternative to a much more expensive business class award ticket (95,000 miles and over $ 1,100).

Maybe you need to buy a more expensive refundable ticket for the primary passenger, or the companion ticket needs to be booked using much more limited award space.

Short, domestic flights will still be well - priced, but premium long - haul award tickets will get more expensive.

If you elected to go somewhere else, you would probably have enough miles, because flying to the Middle East on a Delta award ticket is one of the airline's most expensive destinations.

If you need to go somewhere that requires purchasing an expensive ticket, you'll want to check out award options on one of the carriers that charges the same no matter how much the ticket costs, like United or American.

> Sunday is the most expensive day for award trips — tickets cost 34 % more on Sundays than on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, which are the cheapest days.

Aeroplan charges a very expensive fuel surcharge on almost all award tickets.

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.

The best way to redeem an award is by transferring points to one of American Express's 16 airline partners, especially if you redeem internationally or need to get an expensive domestic ticket.

Even though you don't earn elite miles on award tickets and I value my airline elite status greatly, there's something extremely satisfying about booking an expensive domestic flight and only paying $ 2.50 in fees, which is what most carriers charge per segment on domestic US flights (plus any ticketing fees).

These award tickets can be expensive when booked with points, but easy via the Alaska Airlines website.

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).

@bobbie thing is i am torn on qantas miles, long haul awards are crazy expensive especially in premium cabins and they add fuel surcharges to awards even when there's no fuel surcharge on the ticket itself (like qantas international flights departing australia).

A lot of people say that they'd never pay for a super expensive business or first class ticket, so you're not actually getting that value from that kind of award.

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.

Award tickets to Israel are always tough, though that's a function of it being an expensive route to fly compared to the distance of the flight.

- Reduced award mileage requirements can save you thousands of miles - Domestic companion tickets can save you hundreds or thousands on expensive fares.

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

Here's a predicament I find myself in for a summer trip to Hawaii: Megan and I are going to Kauai and Maui, there is saver - level award space for only the outbound portion of our journey, we're both trying to get status with Alaska's Mileage Plan, and the tickets are ridiculously expensive (Scenario 1).