Citi ThankYou points may not be as sought after as SPG points, but there are plenty of incredible options
for booking award travel.
First understand that we are not travel agents, Booking Guru LLC acts as a service bureau that provides value added service to consumers
for booking their award travel.
Here are a few helpful tips to keep in mind
for booking award travel:
There's a 5 % discount
for booking award travel online with Singapore Airlines or SilkAir (but not partner airlines).
Not exact matches
For example, using United Miles to
book an
award trip that includes
travel on Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines thanks to their shared membership in the Star Alliance.
Whether you're
traveling in Asia or Europe, Starpoints can provide amazing value when redeemed
for Starwood hotel stays or transferred to
book an
award stay at a Marriott property.
LAST idea — British Airways have a little
travel log
book for little ones where the captain registers your child's flight number, miles flown and total, with little pages
for stickers and
awards for miles flown.
SPR talks to author Christine Osborne, SPR
Awards Winner
for Non-Fiction about her
book,
Travels With My Hat.
She was the author of four
award - winning
travel books and the internationally bestselling novels: Bombay Ice, a Sunday Times bestseller, and Fish, Blood, & Bone, which was nominated
for the Orange prize.
• Avalon
Travel Discovery Challenge — $ 500 was awarded to BookCity (listed above) for the project that best promotes discovery books related to t
Travel Discovery Challenge — $ 500 was
awarded to BookCity (listed above)
for the project that best promotes discovery
books related to
traveltravel.
Booking award travel is key
for freelancer nomads.
Note that
booking award travel to other parts of the world, including Asia and Australia, will be significantly higher
for U.S. passengers.
Hot Tip:
For some more great ways to book, check out our best ways to redeem British Airways Avios for award trav
For some more great ways to
book, check out our best ways to redeem British Airways Avios
for award trav
for award travel.
Once you have earned the
Travel Together Ticket, you have up to 2 years to use it
for a round - trip
award booking originating in the United States.
Generally, the only time it makes sense to
book a British Airways first class
award is by using the British Airways
Travel Together Ticket so you can get 2 first class seats
for the miles of on.
«It's still a home - based business, but the plans
for expansion are being a business - to - business supplier, so working with
travel agents that currently don't have the skills to
books award trips,» he says.
Redeeming your points through their
travel portal can get you more value
for your points, or you can transfer your points to their partner programs, and
book award flights through that.
Whether you're
traveling in Asia or Europe, Starpoints can provide amazing value when redeemed
for Starwood hotel stays or transferred to
book an
award stay at a Marriott property.
This card also
awards 5X points in American Express Membership Rewards
for flights
booked directly with airlines or with American Express
Travel, plus 1X point
for other eligible purchases.
The Chase card
awards you 2 «Ultimate Reward Points»
for every $ 1 you spend on
travel, and that includes hotels
booked through Hotels.com.
However, if you have enough miles in your account
for an
award ticket, you can use your miles to
book an employee's
travel for them.
You've now got 60,000 miles in each account (the 40,000 miles which you started with + the 20,000 miles which you transferred), which is enough to
book award travel to Europe
for 2 persons.
On United, all
award travel is
booked one - way
for flexibility, so you can
book a different
award type or even class of service on your outbound and return flights.
This option is good
for lost cost fares and can be very useful
for families needing to
book award travel for multiple passengers during peak holiday times.
The card
awards two membership rewards points
for every dollar spent on
travel booked through amextravel.com and one point
for every dollar spent on general purchases.
Furthermore, Amex Krisflyer will also
award you 2 miles
for all your overseas spend and online
travel bookings via Singapore Airlines or Silk Air.
When you
book travel through the Chase
travel portal, you don't have to worry about blackout dates
for award seats or free hotel nights.
Miles are redeemed as statement credits toward
travel purchases made with your card, so you can
book the airfare or hotel room you want without having to search
for award availability (hence, no blackout dates).
For example, using United Miles to
book an
award trip that includes
travel on Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines thanks to their shared membership in the Star Alliance.
But over the course of earning over a million miles and points and
booking first and business class international
award travel for my family and others, I've come to realize the value.
For instance, if you took an
award flight to Hawaii in July, 2017, use Expedia or your favorite
travel booking site to look up the price of flights in that same class of service in July, 2018.
Redeem miles
for award travel on US Airways and American Airlines
booked through usairways.com or US Airways Reservations
You can get a 20 % discount on miles used
for saver
awards flights if you
book by 3/14/18 11:59 pm CST and
travel between 4/9/2018 and 5/20/2018.
She is the editor of «Making Connections: Mother - Daughter
Travel Adventures,» which was recently
awarded a Lowell Thomas
Award for Best
Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American
Travel Writers.
But
for award travel, it will mean
booking separate
awards and redeeming more miles.
These are the basics of searching
for and
booking award travel through Alaska Airlines.
But like United, Aeroplan permits travelers to
book awards a stopover or open jaw, which can allow you to visit multiple destinations, or search additional options
for award travel, rather than
book a simple round - trip between the same cities.
This might be a good opportunity to take advantage of the Barclaycard Arrival's $ 466 in free
travel for some readers, but because Donna has so many Ultimate Rewards points, it may make sense
for her to use some of them to pay
for the
booking as opposed to transferring the points out to United to
book a one - way
award flight.
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.
However, if you have enough miles in your account
for an
award ticket, you can use your miles to
book an employee's
travel for them.
Search
for AAdvantage
award travel availability on Qantas.com, then call American Airlines reservations to
book.
Not everyone wants to take the long way, and fortunately United is one of the best programs
for booking travel to Asia given the abundant
award space.
As I explained in the series about our trip to the 2013 International Series game, American Airlines offers exceptional value
for award bookings during its off - season
travel period.
American has the nation's largest frequent - flier program, with 62 million AAdvantage members who collectively hold about 500 billion miles.Andrew Watson, American's vice president of customer technology said, «Our customers asked
for more options, flexibility and speed when shopping and
booking award travel on AA.com, and that's just what we've delivered.»
Schlappig also saved money on
travel by taking advantage of Citi's new hotel benefit, which
awards Prestige cardholders a free night's stay if they
book a room
for four or more nights.
The card
awards two membership rewards points
for every dollar spent on
travel booked through amextravel.com and one point
for every dollar spent on general purchases.
As the Premier Rewards Gold is more intended
for reward air
travel, you will have the most success with booking award flights on Amex Travel or by transferring them to a 1:1 travel pa
travel, you will have the most success with
booking award flights on Amex
Travel or by transferring them to a 1:1 travel pa
Travel or by transferring them to a 1:1
travel pa
travel partner.
The same pricing can be used
for availing a cheaper
award booking to Australia, which normally costs around 50,000 miles
for one way economy class
travel.
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Awards are already a great way to use Flying Blue miles, but booking these awards for peak travel season in Europe makes the deal even sw
Awards are already a great way to use Flying Blue miles, but
booking these
awards for peak travel season in Europe makes the deal even sw
awards for peak
travel season in Europe makes the deal even sweeter.
While Saver
Awards for continental U.S. flights will remain unchanged, the new policy — which you can read about in more detail here — means those who book business or first - class awards flights will fork over an additional 5,000 to 10,000 miles per leg on most routes, and even more during peak travel se
Awards for continental U.S. flights will remain unchanged, the new policy — which you can read about in more detail here — means those who
book business or first - class
awards flights will fork over an additional 5,000 to 10,000 miles per leg on most routes, and even more during peak travel se
awards flights will fork over an additional 5,000 to 10,000 miles per leg on most routes, and even more during peak
travel seasons.