On top of
the better award chart, Alaska Airlines also allows you to book stopovers which makes it easy to see multiple destinations with one booking.
But they have
a good award chart, especially their non-peak availability, and it's pretty easy to earn AA miles.
Often award prices are the same regardless of which airline you fly within the carrier's alliance or how many connections you make, so look around if you don't see award availability right away or consider accumulating miles with a different carrier in the same alliance if it has more
a better award chart.
Air Canada has a pretty
good award chart.
Asiana Club has one of
the best award charts in the Star Alliance for premium classes.
Starpoints are great because 1) Has the most airline partners of any flexible currency by far at a 1:1.25 ratio, 2) Partners with Alaska, which has
the best award chart (especially for flying on Cathay / JAL F), 3) Great Nights & Flights redemption options.
Not exact matches
While each of these programs is partnered with US based carriers, their
awards charts do not offer very compelling value in most cases, with Singapore and Air France / KLM Flying Blue being the two
best options.
The
award chart for World of Hyatt is one of the
best out there for hotel stays.
Virgin Atlantic doesn't have one of the
best award redemption
charts for flights.
The event was captured in an
award winning documentary in 1970, the movie Woodstock, a soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song which commemorated the event, and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, as
well as the
chart - topper for Matthews Southern Comfort.
My new single «LIPS» won the
Best Blues Song at the Akademia Music
Awards LA, and we were on the iTunes Easy listening
charts...
The approach seems to be paying off: La La Land was already
awarded Best Original Score at the Golden Globes earlier this month, and the soundtrack album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard albums
chart.
Isaac Hayes» Academy
Award winning soundtrack, was in the
charts for
well over one year.
A
chart - topper from «The Greatest Showman» composed by last year's Oscar winners will compete with tunes sung by Mary J. Blige, Andra Day, Miguel and Sufjan Stevens for the Academy
Award for
best song.
The Tony
Awards are this weekend, so here is a documentary on a Broadway flop...
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
charts the making and failing of Stephen Sondheim / Hal Prince collaboration Merrily We Roll Along.
Especially, since so much selfie «marketing» is just straight out lying — creating fake «company» names for a company of one person, buying fake reviews, giving each other fake
awards, claiming to be «
best sellers» because some newspaper put up a
chart of e-book sales.
You'll find quick links to frequent flyer programs,
award charts, useful travel websites and resources, as
well as our most useful travel articles.
Alaska Airlines offers a vast range of partner airlines as
well as a very reasonable
awards redemption
chart, making this airline and its co-branded credit card a great investment.
Based on the
best available data, this
chart shows the saver level cost of Delta One
award flights to and from the U.S.
Maximize credit card rewards miles redemption with partner airlines — On most
award charts you will find «sweet spots» where a particular
award is priced very competitively and offers a
better value.
And there are some
good values in their
award chart where you'll save miles compared to booking through other airlines» frequent flyer programs.
The
award chart for World of Hyatt is one of the
best out there for hotel stays.
Their
awards chart is
well priced and the transfer makes for a great point conversion most of the time.
Delta does not publish an
award chart and frequently makes unannounced price changes as
well as limited - time discount
award sales.
American implements a zone - based
award chart, and the
best redemptions are at the MileSAAver level, if you can secure them.
The partner
award chart for Etihad prices per segment, not per direction, so your
best value is the Etihad non-stop routes to Abu Dhabi from Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington.
The
award chart for flying between continents may be a little bit more pricey than other travel programs, but the stopovers could be
well worth it.
Its
award chart is not
well priced, and they levee heavy surcharges as
well.
The
award chart is very
well priced.
The mileage cost to fly one of ANA's partner airlines to Japan aren't as
good redeeming miles for ANA flights, but the
award chart does have a few solid partner redemption options.
They may very
well be disappearing once US Airways and American Airlines merge toward the start of 2015 as the combined airline may have a very different
award chart.
Let's say United hypothetically changed their
award chart and no longer offers the flight you wanted at a
good value.
Finally, if you want the ability to earn tons of points but don't want to be locked into the United
award chart (just in case there's a
better option for some of your travel), you can look to Chase cards that earn Ultimate Rewards.
Other partners use traditional distance - based
award charts and have some
good values.
I've written before about the US Airways off - peak
award chart and wanted to go over these very
good deals.
American implements a zone - based
award chart, and the
best redemptions are at the MileSAAver level, if you can secure them.
For ClassicFlight
awards, Air Canada's
award chart is usually
better than many of its partners, including United, but the airline often passes on fuel surcharges levied by partners.
Travel Is Free has a
good example of poor
award availability and makes the case that such situations required United to devalue it's
award chart — it's a combination of profitability and customer engagement with the brand.
Strangely, the Delta
award chart was removed at the beginning of 2015, so it is sometimes a challenge to determine which destinations are in what zone as
well as the prices to various zones.
Japan Airlines uses a distance - based
award chart; the further you fly, the
better the value!
A place where the Aeroplan
award chart has particularly
good value is the business fare to Western Europe (Europe 1).
Use this interactive
award chart to know exactly what you are getting and consider changing travel dates if the rate is not the
best.
There are some crazy
good values in the US Airways
award chart that will likely go away soon!
Japan Airlines» distance - based
award chart provides some great redemptions, but Alaska Airlines» region - based
award chart is sometimes a
better deal.
Again, because there's no strict
award chart, the cost in miles will depend on how
good of a deal you can find on flights.
In this post, I'll talk about the
best uses of your Aeroplan miles based on the
award charts.
When it comes to hotel stays, the
award chart of Hyatt Gold passport is counted amongst the
best in the industry.
British Airways Avios has a distance - based
award chart, so short distance flights can offer a
good value.
However, the greatest
award chart ability is availability, and this is where Delta falls
well short of the mark.
We've covered a lot here, considering the
award chart possibilities for a multitude of carriers and in this feature spent time looking at some of the
best hotel stay redemption options, as
well.