Sentences with phrase «flier miles now»

On November 15, I gave a presentation to the San Francisco Travel Hackers meetup about strategies for accruing frequent flier miles now that most US - based airlines award miles based on the amount of money paid for your ticket.

Not exact matches

Well, frequent flier now may redeem their Miles & More bonus miles for the BMW i3 - and if you have enough of them, you may get the car for just zero Euro.

American Airlines surprised many today when it announced several customer - friendly changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex Awards» will allow customers to book one - way tickets for half the amount of miles needed for a round - trip ticket, and will also let passengers book multi-city itineraries and combine award seats with non-award seats.Under the old paradigm, passengers could only book round - trips to and from the same city and were forced to fly in an award seat of equal value for both legs of the journey.This often made booking award travel an exercise in futility — for example, an award seat might be available only on an outbound journey, but not the return trip.But now passengers will be able to fly to New York in an award seat, and return in a premium - fare seat if a return award seat is not available.

In addition to booking flights on American Airlines, you can now book flights on 8 of the many Oneworld Alliance partner airlines directly on AA.com using your American Airlines frequent flier miles.

Debunking myths about frequent flier programs — Even with flights being cut back, now is the time to redeem your frequent flier miles.

Business cards with miles and frequent flier programs Business owners can now leverage their credit card spending and that of their employees to earn significant travel rewards.

With some airlines now setting earlier expiration dates on frequent flier miles, airline credit card holders who do not take to the skies on a regular basis are in danger of losing their hard - earned miles.

And, while it may seem that this should lead infrequent fliers to book on Delta or SouthWest it is now so easy to ensure that your miles don't ever expire that the consumer can book on any of the airlines mentioned and keep their miles alive even if they never fly again.

Analysts say that changes to airline reward programs could sour customers on airline credit cards, if they perceive that awards are now too hard to earn, on top of perceptions that frequent flier miles are already too difficult to redeem.

All four major U.S. airlines — American, Delta, United and Southwest — now have strikingly similar structures for earning frequent flier miles.

Here's an example: While everyone used to fawn over earning frequent flier miles to circle the globe, any number of travelers have been - there - and - done - that and are now looking for experiential rewards that are not focused on travel.

Yes, as you note, Liza, it is now possible to set up gift registries to receive frequent flier miles.

Now, the Avios program is a little different from most airlines» frequent flier programs in that the number of miles required for a free trip depends on the distance you fly.

Now, though, there are so many different cards that offer what are known as «category bonuses» that it a wise strategy may be to divide your spending to earn additional reward points, frequent flier miles or cash.

Matt Hague, founder of finance and travel blog site Saverocity, points out, for instance, that a round - trip coach ticket from the U.S. to Japan on United will now cost 70,000 frequent flier miles, compared to just 50,000 on American.