Sentences with phrase «haul economy redemption»

Any long - haul economy redemption on the EarlyReturns award chart is a good deal, but flights to Costa Rica are particularly valuable.

Not exact matches

Air Travel Reward redemptions from the Air Travel Redemption Schedule start at 15,000 points for a round trip short - haul flight in economy class with a maximum ticket price of $ 350.

The most interesting point my example above illustrates is that they appear to use a formula to weight mixed - cabin redemptions, such that adding short - haul economy legs radically reduces the total cost in Iberia Avios, sometimes below the cost in British Airways Avios.

However, adding a short - haul economy flight to a long - haul business or first class flight may, as in my example, drastically reduce the number of Iberia Avios required for your award redemption.

The first is short - haul domestic economy redemptions.

If you have to pay high fees or fuel surcharges on an economy or short - haul flight, you should be especially cautious about using points for that redemption.

charges ridiculously high surcharges on reward flights (so much so that most long - haul Economy Class redemptions are terrible value for money).

Domestic redemptions are changing and, while not all of the city pairs are loaded into the system, it appears that short - haul redemptions are going down slightly — Boston (BOS) to New York (JFK) decreases from 12,500 to 11,500 Flying Blue miles in economy class and from 31,250 to 28,000 miles in first class).

But it's not nearly enough to just allocate them some kind of uniform valuation, as some miles may be very valuable for a given type of redemption (e.g. Avios for short - haul economy awards) and quite a poor value for other types of redemptions (for Avios, ultra long - haul in a premium cabin with high mileage cost and often high fuel surcharges).

British Airways, for example, allows redemptions on short - haul flights in economy class for as few as 4,500 points one - way.

If all you care about doing is going from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back for as cheap as possible in economy, then by all means hoard Amex points and transfer to BA Avios to get in on those 4,500 point one way short - haul redemptions on American Airlines.

There are always a couple of seats in business and economy available for redemption, and business class is the same as the seats on the A380 (not the short - haul «business» seats).

On the redemption side, the program offers very cheap short - haul awards (as low as 4,500 miles in economy or 9,000 in business class), thus perfect for domestic flights within Japan (with no taxes!)

Some changes will benefit members, such as the simplified elite status earning system and the new short - haul redemption level, but others, particularly earning rates on economy flights, will sting a bit.

Air Travel Reward redemptions from the Air Travel Redemption Schedule start at 15,000 points for a round trip short - haul flight in economy class with a maximum ticket price of $ 350.