I had been collecting Alaska Airlines miles for a number of years, redeeming miles for domestic tickets here and there (I've since learned that Alaska miles are best used
for international award tickets).
R200 (about $ 17) ticketing fee for domestic awards and R500 (about $ 42) fee
for international awards ticketed through a South African Airways office
Not exact matches
I do hold to One Mile at a Time's policy of never keeping more than enough miles to redeem
for a couple of first class
international award tickets.
Yes, there has been a Centurion Lounge at LaGuardia Airport
for some time... but if you are flying out of NYC on an
international award ticket, you're probably going out of JFK.
While this isn't the best way to earn Alaska miles because of the cost, it can help you get those last few miles needed
for to book a first class
award ticket with Cathay Pacific, one of Alaska's best
international partners.
For example, United Airlines has the most generous policy on round trip
international frequent flyer
award tickets.
See JAL
International Award Tickets Discount Mileage Promotion
for more.
Alaska has an amazing
award chart, known
for its below market
award prices
for certain
international premium cabin
tickets.
Normally the best use of frequent flyer miles is
for international premium cabin
awards because these are expensive
tickets if you pay with cash but not very expensive if you pay with miles.
Passenger is responsible
for all taxes, fees, baggage fees and surcharges applicable to
award travel, including, with respect to government imposed taxes and fees, September 11th Security Fee of $ 5.60 per one - way trip that does not include a government defined stopover, US Customs, Immigration and APHIS User Fees of $ 17.50
for each
international arrival in the U.S.; and non-U.S. government
ticket taxes, fees and airport charges may add up to $ 275 per
ticket as of January 1, 2018.
The purchaser of an
award ticket is responsible
for all applicable taxes, fees, and checked baggage charges imposed by the transporting carrier (s) or U.S. or
international authorities.
To search
for a flight to Japan using your miles with JAL, choose «JAL
international award ticket reservation» from the «
award redemption (air)» column on the left.
For now, Alaska is winning — but only because I think I might rely on award tickets for international trav
For now, Alaska is winning — but only because I think I might rely on
award tickets for international trav
for international travel.
In order to search
for a flight with a partner airline using JMB miles, choose «JMB partner airlines
award ticket reservation» instead of the JAL
international award ticket option.
Remember that
for international business or first class
awards, you'll be avoiding the cost of a
ticket that could cost thousands of dollars.
$ 25 - 35 telephone reservations fee — If you need to call to book your
award, you'll pay $ 25 per
ticket for domestic
award and $ 35
for awards that involve
international travel.
United Airlines has long offered its customers one free stopover on round - trip
award tickets for international travel.
Low level
award redemptions
for premium business class
international round - trip
tickets can usually be found
for 140,000 miles, but Delta occasionally has flash sales where those
awards cost just 110,000 miles.
Ranging anywhere from $ 5
for domestic
awards to $ 1,000 +
for upper class
international itineraries,
award ticket fees are not foreign to
award travelers.
When
award space is availble, it's not too difficult to find an economy class
award ticket for 25,000 miles instead of paying $ 500 (valuing miles at 2 cents each), or an
international business class
award ticket for 120,000 miles instead of $ 6,000 (valuing miles at 5 cents each).
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.
American Airlines: American Airlines allows 1 stopover in the North American gateway city
for a one - way
international award ticket.
«It's hard to get
award travel
tickets for 25,000 miles these days, so I consider it to be a good use of my frequent - flier miles to upgrade,» says Bowles, an attorney who lives in Winter Park, Colo. «I always use them
for international flights, overnight flights or flights over four hours.»
You'll need more lead time
for premium
awards, such as an
international first - class
ticket, than you will
for a domestic economy flight.
JAL
International First Class and Business Class
award tickets mileage requirements are changing, see the charts below
for flights from Vancouver and other North American cities to Japan (not until Nov 1, 2015, now that's advance notice!!).
Lufthansa miles have great rules
for award tickets, allowing two stopovers and two open jaws
for roundtrip
international flights.
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for revenue
tickets — Non-traditional
awards and miles
For those based in the USA we will likely use them for our outbound flights to avoid the international surcharge that is collected by Delta on award tickets originating outside the U
For those based in the USA we will likely use them
for our outbound flights to avoid the international surcharge that is collected by Delta on award tickets originating outside the U
for our outbound flights to avoid the
international surcharge that is collected by Delta on
award tickets originating outside the USA.
Rules:
For international, roundtrip award tickets, United allows two open - jaws and one stopover (as long as the total number of connections for each direction does not exceed
For international, roundtrip
award tickets, United allows two open - jaws and one stopover (as long as the total number of connections
for each direction does not exceed
for each direction does not exceed 3.)
He cited fine print in Delta's SkyMiles rules which includes hint that redeeming a «free»
award ticket may cost the customer «' up to $ 600
for foreign government taxes and fees and / or carrier - imposed fees
for international itineraries;»» and that Delta «' reserves the right to change fees or add additional fees at any time without advance notice.
Someone redeeming
for U.S. domestic flights that are normally inexpensive will typically get much less face value out of the same number of miles or points than someone redeeming
for an
international first class
award ticket, which could have a retail value of $ 20,000 or more.