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Virgin Atlantic has great award redemption values for flights between the U.S. (especially Eastern U.S.) and Europe in both classes, economy and business, although outrageous Heathrow Airport fees and fuel surcharges in Upper Class make business class TY redemptions on Virgin a less attractive option.

Of course, there may be other great award redemptions available.

Great award redemptions are emerging and disappearing all the time!

Korean air offers great award redemptions with plenty of ability to avoid fuel surcharges.

Of course, there may be other great award redemptions available.

Today, TPG Senior Points & Miles Correspondent Jason Steele looks at ten ways you can use these cards for great award redemptions.

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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.

For instance, Air France and KLM's frequent flyer program, Flying Blue, has some great redemption opportunities when it comes to booking award flights from the United States to the Caribbean and to Hawaii.

Logically, we're drawn to think of using British Airways points from Britain, but these short distance award rules also apply to partner flights and are great redemption for other parts of the world.

Aside from the fact that this is a great airline with an excellent award redemption chart and exceptional service in all cabins, ANA is also a Star Alliance member and transfer partner with the Amex Membership Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest programs.

Transferring your Amex MR points to Air France KLM Flying Blue offers great redemption opportunities when it comes to booking award flights from the United States to Europe.

The distance - based award chart can be great for short - haul flights and sweet - spot redemptions on partner airlines.

For everyone else, the limited awards redemption options and mediocre earning potential on everyday purchases may deter you from becoming a cardholder, especially when there are travel cards that offer greater earning and more flexibility.

That's less than ideal, but since Marriott Rewards points are seldom worth even a cent each on award night redemptions, I don't consider it a great sacrifice given the potential upside of the experiment.

Another great redemption option is for first class saver awards on partner airlines.

Delta hasn't shown us their new award chart yet, so this could all be a trap, with greater seat availability offset by even higher award redemption levels.

Japan Airlines» distance - based award chart provides some great redemptions, but Alaska Airlines» region - based award chart is sometimes a better deal.

This presents the potential for great redemption rates on short flights if award space is available.

Unfortunately, after the devaluation a couple of years ago, Air Canada miles have become much less competitive, and the current Air Canada award chart doesn't offer any great deal compared to United redemption rates.

British Airways has an distance - based award chart and since Boston to Ireland snuck in just under the 3,000 mile mark it was a great redemption.

ANA's program is complicated because of the number of different charts that apply to various redemptions, but there are great values to be had if you invest a little time in thinking about your award redemption.

They offer some great redemptions, be careful about which award chart you are using!

It's great to see Alaska add another international partner, which will certainly give the program more value for travel to Europe and Asia, but we'll have to see what award redemption options they'll have on Finnair later this year.

If BA starts linking the cost of flights to the number of Avios needed and doesn't keep any kind of standard award in place the days of great redemptions on routes like NYC — Boston are over.

Aeroplan is great because you can book one way awards, avoid fuel surcharges on airlines like United and Singapore Airlines, they have one of the best search engines (although it can be a bit slow), and a lot of their redemption rates for business class are pretty reasonable.

A great card for those who fly OneWorld, since British Airways» Avios Miles are distance based, making short - distanced award flights a great redemption value.

This is a great card for anyone who plans to travel on Asiana, or for a seasoned travel hacker looking for some excellent Star Alliance redemptions via Asiana's award charts.

This is great news for flyers reeling from Delta's mega-devaluation and move to revenue - based award redemptions.

And while these two frequent flyer programs offer similar redemption rates for flights to many destinations, AAdvantage also offers some great off peak awards.

They are sure to be great options for award redemption if you can make plans before others take notice.

80,000 Starpoints (which will convert to 100,000 JAL Miles) for a roundtrip First Class award in one of the better First Class cabins around can be a great redemption.

Their award program, JAL Mileage Bank (JMB), is flexible and offers some great redemption rates on flights between the U.S. and Japan.

This means that there can be some great value to be had if you select the right redemption options — like Cathay Pacific in Business or First Class between Europe and Asia (not a hard award to find), LAN Business Class from the US to South American and Korean Air Business Class between the US and Asia.

An escape from the European winter with quick break to the sun sounds like a good last hurrah for a great value award redemption

As stated, award availability for (saver) business class to New Zealand on United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with business class seats between the US and Australia / New Zealand.

The combination of aggressive economy award requirements with low taxes and faxes make this program a great way to book Air France KLM metal and their partner redemptions.

While Flying Blue is great for economy redemptions, I would keep in mind these items when booking award travel through their program:

These new routes could present a great opportunity for award redemption; jump on it before others do.

While the brand isn't flawless by any means and while room rates can be high, the fact that the most an award night can cost you is 30,000 points (at the time of writing) makes these properties great for award redemptions.

It's got a number of sweet spots for business class redemptions and although it's a little tricky due to its different award charts, exceptions, and lack of online booking, there's some great value to be had with the program.

I was able to use a GoFree award at the Wyndham Santa Monica when regular rates were $ 460 / night and other hotels even more, making the redemption great value!

Flying Blue offers some great redemption rates for economy, which means that when you're able to find economy promo awards, it's probably offering you one of the best rates you'd be able to find out of any airline.

In that article, we focused on your redemption options for Virgin Atlantic award flights, which frankly aren't great.

Award nights at top category hotels can be expensive, but the redemptions at low - mid tier hotels a = offer a great value.

Some of the best include the following: United Airlines, which opens up access to the huge Star Alliance network of carriers; British Airways, offering great value on short - haul nonstop flights due to their distance - based award chart; Korean Airlines, with amazing award availability in their first class cabins; and Hyatt, which is widely recognized as offering some of the highest value point redemption opportunities of any hotel chain.

Award availability is great even at lower redemption rates, and with JFK as one of the hubs, you should have no problem booking a flight.

I think what while the economy award redemptions aren't the most valuable, the business class awards still offer great value despite the fees on a round trip award.