Sentences with phrase «flight distance used»

With a distance - based award chart, you also need to remember that any connecting flights will add to the total flight distance used to calculate the number of miles required for your award ticket.

With a distance - based award chart, you also need to remember that any connecting flights will add to the total flight distance used to calculate the number of miles required for your award ticket.

Not exact matches

For the past 10 years, the Camera Culture group at MIT's Media Lab has been developing innovative imaging systems — from a camera that can see around corners to one that can read text in closed books — by using «time of flight,» an approach that gauges distance by measuring the time it takes light projected into a scene to bounce back to a sensor.

In their experiment, the researchers used the dual - based IR remote sensing system to observe the spectral curves of the sun and airplanes in flight from distances up to 6 kilometers (4 miles).

Unlike the other options we have discussed, British Airways Executive Club uses a distance - based award chart, so the total number of Avios required to book an award flight will be determined by the distance you fly.

With a distance - based award chart, it's particularly important to find award flights that are nonstop so you don't have to use more miles and points.

Virgin America Elevate partner flight awards use the more traditional distance - based award chart method.

You can use the Web Flyer website to check the distance of your flight.

You can use this link to double - check how far the flight distance was.

Avios are the shared mileage currency of British Airways and Iberian Airlines — but you can use them for far more than travel on these two European carriers, and you can take advantage of their distance award chart for short flights.

Logically, we're drawn to think of using British Airways points from Britain, but these short distance award rules also apply to partner flights and are great redemption for other parts of the world.

British Airways has very high surcharges for long distance flights to Europe, so we don't recommend using it.

Japan Airlines» Mileage Bank program uses a distance - based award chart which is broken into tiers based on your flight miles.

For those of you who live about the same distance from 2 nearby airports both served by United you can use this technique to book 2 flights (even with connections) for much less than the cost of doing so with Avios.

For example, Hawaiian uses a distance - based award chart for flights booked on All Nippon Airways (ANA), the largest airline in Japan.

• British Airways Avios can be used on American and US Airways and are extremely powerful for short - distance, high - cost flights.

For Canadians, the best time to use this would be if you are flying from Canadian cities and you value flying on Air Canada operated flights when going long distances.

Make sure you're looking for non-stop flights whenever possible since British Airways uses a distance - based award chart.

You will typically be travelling in private air - conditioned vehicles, but may also use trains, hydrofoil, flights, local buses, four - wheel - drives, and other types of transport suited to the terrain and distance.

However, JAL Mileage Bank uses a distance - based award chart, so connecting flights and flights from the Midwest and East Coast could increase the number of miles required.

For partner awards, Japan Airlines uses a distance - based award chart that is divided into tiers based on the number of flight miles.

For example, domestic AA flights that show availability at the Saver Economy level of 17,500 AAdvantage miles on AA.com will be bookable using Avios, though the number required will vary based on distance.

That means short flights — or flights that are just under one of the program's higher distance thresholds — can often be a very good value using Avios.

Partner award bookings fall under a distance - based award chart while award flights operated by Japan Airlines use a region - based award chart.

While flights are convenient for covering huge distances in a short time, nothing can replace the excitement and satisfaction of travelling overland using a country's local transport.

Since many of the programs we'll discuss use a distance based award chart we'll need to get a feel for which cities Aer Lingus flies to, and the distance of those flights from Ireland.

They use a distance - based chart, which means the longer the flight, the more Mileage Bank miles your flight will cost.

With a distance - based award chart, it's particularly important to find award flights that are nonstop so you don't have to use more miles and points.

To redeem this award, use the first chart and find flights with one - way flight distances less than 4,800 miles (falling into Zone 5).

To redeem this flight award, you must use the third award chart and calculate a one - way flight distance less than 4,800 miles to be within Zone 5.

And you can use connecting flights, because Iberia Avios doesn't calculate each segment but only the distance between the origin and the destination.

There is great value on Virgin America however, which uses a value - based redemption system for its own flights, but can be booked on a distance - based chart through Hawaiian.

For those who don't know, British Airways Avios points are an excellent option to use for shorter American flights as British Airways has a distance based award chart.

So, while the minimum cost of a North American award flight on other major airlines is 25,000 miles (no matter what the city pairs are), if you use Avios and the distance of your flight does not exceed 2,000 miles, you can get a great deal.

For Premier members who travel on eligible purchased fare classes on flights with a distance of less than 500 miles, 500 miles will be used as the flight distance for calculating the Premier qualifying miles earned, based on the percentages in the chart.

When you use your HawaiianMiles for a long - distance U.S. - to - Hawaii flight, between Washington, D.C. and Honolulu for instance, you get a much better rate for your miles.

They can be used for U.S. domestic flights and selected short - distance international flights.

So let's take a look at the top seven longest flights by distance and see how you can use a frequent flyer award to make the journey possible.

It uses a region - based award chart for LAN Airlines flights, and a distance - based chart for oneworld and other partners.

Asia Miles is a distance - based program that's perfectly suited for using fifth freedom flights.

Because of its close partnership with American Airlines, you can use Avios to book pretty much any American flight for a fraction of the miles, since the Executive Club uses distance - based awards rather than zone - based awards.

«By making flight and noise information available on the internet, people can go online and use the system to find details of a particular flight (airline, aircraft type and destination), locate their property on a map and calculate the height that the aircraft was flying above and the distance from their property and if they have a comment or concern about a particular flight they can report it to us using the same system.»

Avios are the shared mileage currency of British Airways and Iberian Airlines — but you can use them for far more than travel on these two European carriers, and you can take advantage of their distance award chart for short flights.

Their partner award chart is not as generous as the Avios chart is for the majority of distances you'd use for destinations in the Caribbean, except for very short flights, such as those under 500 kms like the one above.

You can then use the Great Circle Mapper to measure the distance for these non-stop flights and then use the British Airways Award Chart I made to determine how many Avios you will need to book that flight.

First, you find out how many miles your flight is (I use Great Circle Mapper) and then you find which zone that flight falls into based on the distance of the trip.

A nonstop flight is the most convenient, and it can actually save you miles as well especially if you are using a distance - based program like British Airways Avios.

However, unlike British Airways, Iberia does not factor in connecting flights into the total distance traveled for your trips, so there are both advantages and disadvantages for using Iberia to book American flights.

As a reminder, BAEC is a distance - rather than region - based program and it's best used on short, non-stop flights.

That's because British Airways uses a distance - based award chart so you will spend fewer points for those flights than if using miles from the airlines themselves.