Sentences with phrase «haul premium cabin awards»

Both loyalty currencies cost around the same in the promotions but with MileagePlus miles you can avoid paying fuel surcharges when using them on United and a number of other airlines and, on top of that, you can purchase long - haul premium cabin awards on United for fewer miles than you can on British Airways.

Not exact matches

Nonetheless, this is where you'll get the most value for your points, particularly when it comes to premium cabin award seats on long - haul flights.

Valuation: The new British Airways award chart went into effect at the end of April, dramatically increasing the mileage requirements for most premium cabin redemptions, particularly on long - haul flights.

Airline programs offer significant value on international awards in premium cabins — exactly the sort that most people can not afford and which are desperately needed on long - haul journeys.

It's true, last year British Airways devalued their award chart for «premium» cabin flights and 4,500 short haul domestic flights.

For most long - haul premium cabin partner awards you are better off booking through other Star Alliance partners such as Aviana, ANA or Asiana.

American Airlines AAdvantage miles are very hard to use economically thanks to the dearth of premium cabin SAAver awards, United Miles are ok but 100,000 won't get you a roundtrip Business Class award to any major long - haul destination (if you're heading east or west) while 100,000 Alaska Miles will get you some nice roundtrip redemptions on Cathay Pacific and even American (subject to award availability).

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).

Already they have one of the most insanely expensive award charts for long haul premium cabin travel.

@bobbie thing is i am torn on qantas miles, long haul awards are crazy expensive especially in premium cabins and they add fuel surcharges to awards even when there's no fuel surcharge on the ticket itself (like qantas international flights departing australia).

For me it meant the end of using British Airways points for premium cabin long haul awards.