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While you can't transfer ThankYou Points directly to American Airlines or United Airlines to book one of our example flights as an award ticket, you can transfer to one of their respective Oneworld or Star Alliance partners.

Not exact matches

Can you earn three times as many points by booking a flight, purchasing your ticket through a website that offers its own rewards program (like Expedia) and using a credit card that awards points to people who book through Expedia?

We've already talked about booking flights on United Airlines with Singapore KrisFlyer miles, but you can actually use KrisFlyer miles to book award tickets on Alaska Airlines as well.

This program awards one Membership Reward ® point for every dollar spent on everyday purchases, and these points are redeemable for certain types of splurge purchases such as a vacation or flight ticket.

Or transfer the points to partners like United Airlines for travel such as a round - trip award ticket within the US and Canada or a 1 - way flight to Europe.

Because British Airways calculates the price of an award based on individual flight segments, this means you can actually make a stopover for as long as you want and the ticket will cost the same.

If I can make as controversial a claim as is supported by the evidence, even the American Express Delta Platinum credit card, with its $ 195 annual fee and companion ticket awarded on each account anniversary, only makes sense (compared to redeeming Arrival + miles) if you can consistently redeem the companion ticket for flights costing more than $ 672 — the value of the Arrival + miles you could manufacture with the same $ 195 in disposable income — or if you can use the Medallion Qualifying Miles earned with the card to achieve Platinum or Diamond Medallion status.

You must take the next connecting flight onwards or your award will be priced as two separate award tickets, but this can buy you an overnight stop in Fiji before heading onwards.

New rules will essentially price all award tickets as a combination of one - way flights.

Then, the only remaining challenge is the flight home from Honolulu, which could be paid for or redeemed as a separate award ticket.

Award tickets may be booked as shortly as two hours prior to a flight when they are available, and because American itself operates the flight, rather than a partner, that means that any available seat can be ours for the AAnytime rate of 35,000 miles.

The Travel Together Ticket works as an additional voucher when you redeem an award flight.

It's important to confirm availability for the Flying Club miles ticket by speaking with a Virgin Atlantic representative before tackling Delta, because flights available for Virgin Atlantic redemption should almost certainly be available as a Delta award booking, but the opposite isn't always the case.

Large carriers such as American Airlines or United Airlines have a fixed price award system, where taking an award flight will cost the same amount no matter the cash value of the ticket.

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.

Yes, with all award tickets, including reduced flight awards such as Mileage Bargain and Fly Smart awards, you have the option to cancel the ticket for free within 24 hours of booking.

* This charge will be applicable if you change / cancel your award flight less than 24 hours before departure, or if you fail to use your confirmed reservation (as printed on your ticket) for any reason.

We've already talked about booking flights on United Airlines with Singapore KrisFlyer miles, but you can actually use KrisFlyer miles to book award tickets on Alaska Airlines as well.

Because British Airways calculates the price of an award based on individual flight segments, this means you can actually make a stopover for as long as you want and the ticket will cost the same.

In addition to a single ticket and one - stop check - in, members of either airline can earn miles or points while travelling on all flights of the other carrier and can also redeem award tickets on the other carrier as well.

As far as booking an award ticket on a partner flight goes, let's clear something up: If you want to use Flying Blue Miles to fly to Hawaii on Delta Airlines, you would transfer your UR points to the Flying Blue program, NOT Delta's, and then call Air France or use their website to book the partner flight on DeltAs far as booking an award ticket on a partner flight goes, let's clear something up: If you want to use Flying Blue Miles to fly to Hawaii on Delta Airlines, you would transfer your UR points to the Flying Blue program, NOT Delta's, and then call Air France or use their website to book the partner flight on Deltas booking an award ticket on a partner flight goes, let's clear something up: If you want to use Flying Blue Miles to fly to Hawaii on Delta Airlines, you would transfer your UR points to the Flying Blue program, NOT Delta's, and then call Air France or use their website to book the partner flight on Delta.

Additionally, the card comes with an annual $ 100 airline fee credit that can be used toward airline incidental charges, such as checked bags, taxes on award tickets and in - flight meals and entertainment.

convert Avios points are extremely cost effective when redeemed for short - haul flights on both American Airlines and British Airways, although the cost of an award flight will increase if there are multiple segments as the cost of a ticket with multiple segments is based on the combined cost of each individual segment.

As from 24 May, you will be able to redeem for Premium Economy saver award tickets flights where Premium Economy is offered.

Award Availability and Fees The primary Cardmember can use miles to book award travel on any United - operated flight at the MileagePlus ® Everyday Award level, including award travel booked by the primary Cardmember for an authorized user under the primary Cardmember's MileagePlus number, as long as tickets are still available for sale for the applicable cabin on such flAward Availability and Fees The primary Cardmember can use miles to book award travel on any United - operated flight at the MileagePlus ® Everyday Award level, including award travel booked by the primary Cardmember for an authorized user under the primary Cardmember's MileagePlus number, as long as tickets are still available for sale for the applicable cabin on such flaward travel on any United - operated flight at the MileagePlus ® Everyday Award level, including award travel booked by the primary Cardmember for an authorized user under the primary Cardmember's MileagePlus number, as long as tickets are still available for sale for the applicable cabin on such flAward level, including award travel booked by the primary Cardmember for an authorized user under the primary Cardmember's MileagePlus number, as long as tickets are still available for sale for the applicable cabin on such flaward travel booked by the primary Cardmember for an authorized user under the primary Cardmember's MileagePlus number, as long as tickets are still available for sale for the applicable cabin on such flight.

Members will earn award miles based on the flight distance2 and the purchased fare class for the following tickets and flights, with some exclusions as listed at the bottom of this page.

American Airlines» AAdvantage program can help you book award tickets on their own flights, as well as several of their Oneworld partners.

The exact number of miles to redeem for an Award Ticket can vary greatly depending on the flight, but members may begin redeeming flights with as little as 10,000 miles.

Under the new system for award miles, flights on partner carriers not issued on 016 ticket stock — meaning they don't earn PQDs — will earn award miles based on distance flown and fare class as under the current system.

Ticket price (base fare plus carrier - imposed fees, excluding any government - imposed taxes and fees) on American - marketed flights — basically using the same methodology as used for the calculation of award miles earned.

Many award tickets, such as flights to Europe, are on par with those of other competing airlines, with economy tickets starting at 60,000 miles roundtrip plus taxes and fees.

The full price of the ticket is irrelevant in this case as I'm looking to book an award flight, the only figures that matter are the taxes and fees as highlighted by the red box above.

You can also use Etihad Guest miles for redeeming award tickets on American Airlines flights as per this redemption table.

Unless you have elite status, Frontier charges close - in award ticketing fees as early as 180 days before your flight.

As you can see from the Delta example above, having airline miles with an airline does NOT mean you can only book award tickets for their flights.

But the temporary halting of flights raises a larger issue, particularly as we head into hurricane season: What options do you have if you're traveling on an award ticket and the airline cancels your flight because of storms, unstable political situations or some other crisis?

Points can be redeemed for booking flights, upgrades, and award tickets on Singapore Airlines and Silk Air, a regional airline owned by Singapore Airlines, as well as on any Star Alliance member airline.

You may redeem miles as little as 15,000 - 20,000 air miles for round - trip Award Travel tickets on Thai AirAsia flights between Singapore and Phuket and between Bangkok and 20 cities, among them, Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City.

Much as I love flying on award tickets, I hate the process of finding and booking award flights.

I couldn't find another award seat out of Siem Reap on the same Korean Air flight as my mom, so I've booked my return ticket to the US out of Bangkok.

That's less than fortunate — as you will see below, you'll pay considerably more for a partner's flight than for United own award ticket.

Wan na Get Away Fare Redemptions: Although I often talk of the value of transferable points thanks to the flexibility they give you to top up accounts and book premium international tickets on a whim, Rapid Rewards represents the flip side of award tickets where you know you are getting a great (semi) fixed value on award tickets of about 1.8 - 2 cents each on Wan na Get Away (leisure) fares and you can redeem them for any open seat on a flight, just as if you were buying it.

Another possibility is to do a mixture of awards and paid flights and / or even have one parent and the child travel separately, as my family often does, in order to book premium class award tickets.

You'll need more lead time for premium awards, such as an international first - class ticket, than you will for a domestic economy flight.

If I were to book a 1st class CP flight from HKG to JFK with aadvantage miles as soon as that award space is released on ba.com, and if I then wanted to go from JFK to AUS on the same award ticket, then that award space for AA wouldn't yet be available, correct?

As I mentioned to Carlos, the poor award availability during this peak time, especially for convenient flights with minimal connections, may mean it makes more sense to buy tickets to be able to depart on a more convenient day or time, especially when traveling with a young child.

As is always the problem with lots of international award tickets is finding the domestic flights to connect to the long haul flights on partners.

Sometimes a paid ticket on a flight is cheaper as compared to the taxes and fees that you pay for a Lufthansa (or Swiss, Austrian or Brussels Airlines) award ticket on the same flight.

But having Alaska as an option means that sometimes you don't have to buy domestic flights to sync up with award tickets.

That chart has some real values, such as the ability to fly business class between the US and Europe for 90,000 miles roundtrip instead of the usual 100,000, the ability to pop around Europe with several extra flights thrown in for 115,000 miles in business class instead of 100,000 miles roundtrip plus another 20,000 miles for each and every additional intra-European flight, and the ability to fly to Australia in business class via Asia (not normally allowed on a single award ticket) for an extra 25,000 miles — and make stopovers in Asia, and throw in Australian domestic flights at the same time.