Suffice it to say that this is a significant devaluation on the part of United, and many of us will be forced to choose between undesirable routings or
higher award flight costs in the future.
Not exact matches
This makes the
cost of those
award flights very
high in some instances.
It is possible to find
higher redemption rates for your points, but in some cases (especially with lower
cost flights or hotel nights), the 1.5 cents per point value can be better than redeeming for an
award directly through the airline or hotel programs.
But surely,
flights from Orlando to Fairbanks are destined to fall into the
higher cost award tier, right?
A slightly
higher cost of redemption applies to
award flights booked between South Africa and the following destinations:
As domestic carriers like United Airlines and American Airlines raise the
cost of their
award flights — particularly when partners are priced much
higher than the domestic carrier — I've been... [Read more...] about How You Can Fly to Europe with One Credit Card Bonus
Award flight tip *: Round - trip business class
awards from the US - Europe
cost 88,000 miles, just beware of
high fuel surcharges on some partners.
As domestic carriers like United Airlines and American Airlines raise the
cost of their
award flights — particularly when partners are priced much
higher than the domestic carrier — I've been focusing on earning more miles with foreign airline loyalty programs.
The best deal available is the ability to snag a round trip
flight to Europe for only 25,000 miles in economy — that's the same number of miles it generally
costs for a round trip
flight within the U.S. Business class
awards can be a good deal, but taxes are considerably
higher especially for
flights departing out of Europe.
Living the dream on card rewards Those who don't know us very well may think we are living the
high life, but the truth is that our $ 250 hotel room near the line of totality during the eclipse was booked for 3,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points; our
flight to Wyoming was 100 percent free on a private plane thanks to a crazy JetSmarter promotion for those who could prove they had a million miles; our resort complete with water slides and a lazy river in San Antonio was booked using an annual credit card
award night when the room normally
costs $ 300 - plus per night; our amazing room at the Park Hyatt New York was booked using 30,000 Hyatt points per night when the selling price was almost $ 1,000 per night; and most of our other
flights were booked via a collection of airline miles and credit card points that were primarily earned by leveraging our everyday spending for major rewards.
As you can see, all non-stop
flights were pricing out at the
highest mileage level for a business class
award,
costing 325,000 miles round - trip.
Delta can be valuable for 40K domestic
awards on
flights that would otherwise
cost $ 800 + or
high level 50K w / o stopover on AA or UA.