Sentences with phrase «flyer award seat»

So which airlines are the most or least generous when it comes to frequent flyer award seat availability?

Not exact matches

Booking a premium cabin award aboard Lufthansa through a partner airline is very difficult since the carrier reserves most those seats for its own frequent flyer program members.

For EQM - Zero flyers like ourselves Alliances and partners are important because award seats at the low level on any one partner airline are usually able to be booked by any other partner's program.

Scott McCartney, Travel Editor of The Wall Street Journal, discusses how the airlines now make more money from their frequent flyer programs than they do from normal airline operations, and which airlines are the best and worst at making award seats available to passengers.

Airlines will generally issue a limited number of lower mileage «saver» award tickets on a flight in each class of service, and then offer additional award seats to flyers at a premium.

When it comes to frequent flyer awards from the airlines, some seats are, well, freer than others.

To book an Avios award, Saver level seats must be available on American to AAdvantage flyers.

That means plenty of award seat availability in frequent flyer programs.

You can get an award seat on Etihad Airways through several frequent flyer programs.

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To anyone who is accustomed to the relative simplicity of redeeming an award seat with a U.S. - based frequent flyer program, using a foreign program like Dynasty Flyer can seem like a challenge primarily because you can't book online.

In frequent flyer forums, I keep seeing the same question: If my flight is cancelled because of weather, do I have to wait for an award seat at the same redemption rate to open up on another flight?

Booking directly with Miles & More award miles is the easiest way to get in Lufthansa's coveted first class cabin, for which seats only open for partner airlines» frequent flyer bookings two weeks before departure, and SWISS first class, which is only open to Miles & More members.

Tickets start at $ 599, and members of Miles & Smiles, the carrier's frequent flyer program, can get award seats and upgrades on this route at a 25 percent discount.

Travelling in premium cabins is a dream for most of us, but it can be reality if you can redeem frequent flyer miles for a premium cabin award seat.

You can get an award seat on Qatar Airways through several frequent flyer programs.

They are considered the ultimate prize in frequent flyer circles because the flights are long and the award seats are scarce.

The problem Cathay Pacific is experiencing is high demand for its first class award seats from those with AAdvantage miles, with these seats often booked soon after the award calendar opens, leaving no award availability for its own Asia Miles frequent flyer members who may seek to book just a few months before the date of departure.

Each airline puts their award seat inventory into a pool that Star Alliance frequent flyer programs have access to.

This week we already learned that the combined United - Continental frequent flyer program will have expiring miles and that last seat availability for standard (additional miles) awards would be restricted to elites and credit card holders, plus that cardholders who are elites would be eligible for complimentary upgrades on domestic coach awards.

Remember that in almost all cases, award seats offered by oneworld airlines are the same regardless of which oneworld frequent flyer program's miles you are using to make the booking.

Because their frequent - flyer programs are based on the costs of the ticket, Southwest and JetBlue have award seats available on nearly every flight.

Partner award seat availability may be different for Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan members than for members of the partner's own loyalty / frequent flyer program.