Not exact matches
In addition, several of the major hotel programs are featured, and transfers from this program are virtually instantaneous, allowing you to book airline
tickets or
award nights at hotels that you
found before the
availability disappears.
Next time you are looking to book an
award ticket and you can't
find availability, use this technique and you may end up
finding a flight you like.
I don't know where you're flying from, but I searched
availability in July — a peak travel time — from Chicago to Honolulu, and
found award tickets typically available for between 60,000 and 70,000 miles round - trip.
You'd never be want to pay for those seats using Flexperks or Arrival points as you'd have to spend ungodly amounts to cover the cash cost of the
tickets) To me, the flexibility to book seats I want, when I want, vastly outweighs maximizing the value I could theoretically obtain IF I could
find availability using «optimal»
award programs.
I try to focus mostly on paid travel, rather than
award flights and nights, because
finding award availability is harder than just
finding a
ticket and pulling out my card.
You can also book
award tickets using Etihad Guest miles, here is how you can
find the
availability.
In order to get your
ticket with Alaska, we recommend you
find your
award on the AA website first to confirm
availability.
Further, this
award is notorious for being difficult to land because phone agents can rarely
find availability to score this golden
ticket.
With an
award ticket you're often very restricted in the dates you can fly (if you can
find availability in the first place) and you don't earn miles or anything towards elite status.
The best way to get your
award ticket is to
find availability and then call and feed the info to an agent.
But with that said, it has become standard procedure for me to once again check SkyMiles
availability when looking for an
award ticket (and to not look so shocked when I
find some).
Whether you're working toward a revenue requirement for elite airline status or you can't
find award availability for your travel dates, sometimes you have to pay for a
ticket with cash rather than miles or points.
«For example, 67,500 miles is enough for a one - way
ticket in Cathay Pacific first class between the US and Asia» If you are lucky enough to
find the
award availability in CX
Use Delta or KLM / AirFrance to
find saver level
award ticket availability, then book the
ticket on Korean Air's website.
Anyway, if there is no saver
award space on AA and if you can not
find availability on partner airlines, you're better off saving your miles than using twice as many for an AAnytime
ticket.
You may
find that providing information about an alternate routing can enable the agent to view the seat
availability and book a
ticket at the standard
award level.