Not exact matches
Additionally, Virgin Australia
award space is quite tough to
find (especially business class), but sometimes you will
find more space closer to departure.
As Cathay Pacific releases
more award space, this gives you a much better chance of
finding a spot!
Assuming you have the ability to earn miles with your credit card spending, leave buying miles for the times when you
find award space for the dates you want, but need a few
more miles to make the booking happen.
It also provides
more flexibility because you don't have to
find award space, you can just book paid flights and still get solid value for your points.
True, you could
find award space by looking at these airlines» own websites, but remember that they may offer
more awards to their members than they provide to the members of partner airlines like American.
This is also a good strategy if you can only
find award space in one direction right now and are hoping
more award space will appear later.
Aeroplan (Air Canada) offers one of the
more comprehensive and user - friendly tools for
finding award space on other Star Alliance partners — everything in the left column of the table, and including Singapore Airlines.
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.
But I don't have good experience
finding SuperSaver
award space and couldn't determine if this discount also applies to
more common Saver
awards.
It does have
more reasonable business class rates to French Polynesia (150,000 per round trip), but
finding award space at this rate is nearly impossible.
While redeeming miles on British Airways flights carries mighty fuel surcharges, there is a lot
more opportunity for
finding award space.
Assuming you can
find award space or are flexible with your dates of travel, buying miles to book
award tickets can be
more affordable than buying traditional revenue fares.
Next to Alaska Airlines, they're one the
more flexible mileage currencies available, and
award space is still relatively easy to
find compared to, say, American Airlines — although this is highly route dependent.
As long as you fly in
more or less a straight line and don't mix carriers, Avios is often a great bargain for domestic U.S. trips, and I've helped a couple people
find award space for their points in the last few months.
It's worth noting that it's tougher than ever before to
find first class Star Alliance
award space on Lufthansa and Swiss (see How to Deal with No
More Lufthansa Advance First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeks
More Lufthansa Advance First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up
award space no
more than three weeks
more than three weeks out.
If many
awards cost
more miles, do you think that people with lots of miles (like you) will have better chances of
finding space since some people won't be able to afford the new rates with the same availability?
Let's face it, especially if you're doing
more aspirational travel, trying to
find award space can be a challenge.
At the time there was very little availability on AA metal, and I felt lucky to
find the premium saver
award space on the 777 - 200 departing JFK at 7:55 p.m. Generally, though, I prefer taking the latest possible trans - Atlantic flight so that I can get
more sleep.
Redeeming AAdvantage miles to Europe is slightly
more challenging, with
award space being
more difficult to
find.
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