Sentences with phrase «for aspirational awards»

Therefore, it is not going to be useful for aspirational awards which can be achieved with more flexible currencies such as Chase Ultimate Rewards or Amex Membership rewards.

The second is that many of us go out of our way to earn points for aspirational awards in First or Business class.

The ability to redeem for aspirational awards is a competitive advantage to the legacies, and taking that away will reduce my loyalty to them.

If you are a frequent traveler, both the number of airlines and their quality will be important: You will not only be able to earn miles on a large number of flights, you will also have access to some of the best airlines for aspirational award travel — a trip in Singapore Airlines or Lufthansa First Class will make any honeymoon very special!

Considering United is devaluing its award chart on February 1, and US Airways will leave the Star Alliance on March 30, now is the time to unload those miles for an aspirational award you may not be able to book later on.

Not exact matches

Most importantly, Delta left untouched the basic deal between frequent flyer programs and their members: you can redeem your miles for «aspirational» awards in premium cabins anywhere their partner airlines fly.

And the increases here are nothing like we've seen in cases involving some of the other top first class cabins like Alaska's overnight nuking / devaluation of Emirates awards, which drastically altered possibilities for aspirational redemptions.

However, I still love me some AA miles because they are great for redeeming on aspirational awards on partners like Etihad, Qatar, and Cathay Pacific.

United (via Star Alliance partners), Singapore and Korean all allow for aspirational international premium - cabin awards.

One method that I've seen people use to value their hotel points is to find the average price charged by one of the top / aspirational properties (that they'd like to stay at) and then divide that by the number of points needed for an award night at that hotel.

A look a the simple things we can all do in our everyday lives to earn easy miles & points for the aspirational premium awards bloggers keep writing about.

United Airlines may not have many cabins that one would call aspirational (The latest Polaris seats on the 777 - 300ER are nice but there's hardly any of them in service) but it offers far better award availability than American Airlines and requires considerably fewer miles for premium cabin awards than Delta — that makes it a valuable transfer option to have.

Booking Guru is designed for the busy business traveler that doesn't have time to search for the best deal and for individuals trying to book aspirational awards but do not know the ins and outs of the programs.

There are few opportunities for manipulation, and there are no aspirational awards to be had.

Those who buy pricey tickets will continue to earn a fare chunk of miles, though less so than they may assume, but aspirational awards for budget - conscious travelers will now become significantly more difficult to obtain.

If you decide to hold off on redeeming until the merger completes, your Dividend Miles will convert to AAdvantage miles and you can use them for aspirational One World awards, including on Qantas, Cathay Pacific and Etihad, to name a few.

Some bloggers out there still screaming how this will hurt the programs as members will no longer have aspirational awards to aim for.