Sentences with phrase «haul redemption award»

The flight is operated by British Airways» partner Aer Lingus and you don't need to pay taxes, making this the best long - haul redemption award of British Airways» Executive Club.

Not exact matches

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.

However, be careful: the distance - based award chart can also result in less favorable redemption rates on long - haul flights.

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

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.

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

British Airways eliminated its 4,500 - Avios redemptions, but American and Delta introduced cheaper short - haul awards.

As I prefer to use my Chase Ultimate Rewards points for Hyatt redemptions Amex Membership Rewards are where I look when I ned to top up my Avios balance for short - haul awards within Europe or within the US.

Thankfully, one general rule of awards bookings — the best value for your points is usually found on long - haul bookings — allows you to reap dramatic savings using international award redemption zones.

The award chart for flights on Vietnam Airlines is distance - based and has some good redemptions for short - and medium - haul flights.

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).

Overall there are still some decent redemptions to be had for short - haul flights using Avios but, once again, British Airways has removed one of the biggest sweet spots in their award chart and that doesn't endear them to me any more.

To start with, you can take advantage of some of the redemptions noted above, like British Airways short - haul awards, Flying Blue to Hawaii or the Caribbean, transatlantic flights on Virgin Atlantic and Singapore Airlines first suites.

This chart is fantastic for short - haul awards, as I noted in my post on the best Avios routes to fly and useful 4,500 Avios redemptions around the world.

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).

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.

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!)

Avios is also a distance - based mileage redemption program, so short - haul awards require fewer miles than long - haul awards, with redemptions starting at just 4,500 Avios each way for flights under 600 miles, such as those between New York and Montreal.

It's just added a discounted redemption option for short - haul awards in the US, potentially making it even more valuable.