Sentences with phrase «increased award costs»

The increased award costs are by no means a disaster or heinous but they also aren't insignificant.

I can already hear some arguing that Singapore Airlines hasn't increased award costs for a few years and that this makes the increase perfectly ok... but that doesn't wash with me because the cost of issuing awards and flying passengers around hasn't increased.

Malaysia Airlines also recently announced changes to its Enrich program that will significantly increase award cost of partner awards.

If your local restaurant / grocery store / gas station / bookstore / clothes store suddenly announced that prices would be increasing by 25 % — 30 % in a few weeks time I doubt you would be too happy... so why give airlines a break when they increase award costs by that amount?

In addition to increasing award costs in several regional, Singapore Airlines is eliminating the 15 % discount for booking tickets online.

Not exact matches

The increases granted will raise the rate of wages growth for workers on award wages, but the acceleration is quite mild and it will have only a small impact on aggregate wage costs.

In his seven years as president, President Houshmand has implemented many programs and initiatives to decrease the cost of higher education, including creating a $ 25,000, four - year bachelor's degree program, awarding more than $ 27 million annually in scholarship funds and waivers, and committing to capping tuition and fee increases at or lower than the rate of inflation for his tenure.

Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorneys» fees, other than participant's actual out - of - pocket expenses (i.e. costs associated with entering this Giveaway), and participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

The agencies» rationale, the paper reported, was that revealing the cost for each part of the system might increase the cost because it «would impair present or imminent contract awards or collective bargaining negotiations.»

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently increased the institutional allowance for the Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSAs) to partially cover the rising costs of health insurance for postdocs.

Award sizes, too, have increased, as NSF has endeavored to keep up with the cost of doing science — a cost that is increasing faster than the rate of inflation.

You agree to indemnify and keep indemnified Us against any and all losses, proceedings, lost profits, damages, awards, expenses, costs (including increased administration and legal costs on a full indemnity basis), claims, actions and any other losses or liabilities suffered by Us and arising from or relating to Your use of the service, information and / or other material posted on the Service by You and / or arising from or due to any breach of contract, any tortious act and / or omission and / or any breach of statutory due by You.

This system also helps meet other green criteria like the Eco-School and Ofsted awards, and doesn't incur significant additional costs or increase the time and labour taken to manage the process.

Next, a school district in Illinois just awarded its teachers a 10 - year contract that includes a 40 percent salary increase over its term, preserves a pre-retirement, 6 percent yearly pay spike to boost teachers» pensions, an increase in sick - days from 15 to 24 per year, and a freeze on health insurance and prescription drug costs for district employees for the 10 - year period.

The Education Corps is designed to provide tutoring and after - school support but not necessarily to train future teachers.92 The VISTA program matches corps members with a nonprofit organization to perform capacity building and provides yearlong stipends, but it is not intended for provision of direct services.93 The Professional Corps, which specifies teaching as one of its qualified positions, allows participants to access Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards — which recipients can use either for loan forgiveness or for paying tuition and other qualifying educational expenses — but increases residency program costs because residents are prohibited from receiving stipends through AmeriCorps and must therefore be paid through their program or the school district.94 None of these programs were designed for supported entry specifically; thus, programs dedicated to providing a gradual on - ramp to the teaching profession can sometimes find it hard to meet their definitions and requirements.

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Also, the school's financial situation may change, resulting in increased costs or fewer or reduced need - or merit - based awards than anticipated.

Many states will increase their max grant award depending on the cost of tuition and fees at your school.

But I suspect there are a lot more situations like this, where increased redemption costs under the new United award chart — especially in premium cabins — will make it worth paying potentially astronomical fuel surcharges to their rivals.

On August 14th, Delta announced they were increasing the cost of low - level BusinessElite awards from the United States to Europe, Australia, Asia, South Africa and South America for awards beginning on or after June 1, 2014.

With the new fee structure, all changes to saver awards will have an increased cost.

A word of warning about how Delta's award booking engine works: if any flight segment is lacking Low level availability, the overall miles cost will be increased.

While Saver level domestic first class awards will continue to cost 25,000 miles one - way in the continental U.S. and 40,000 miles one - way to Hawaii, routes with premium service are seeing increases.

As of January 7, Hyatt added a Category 7 to its redemption list and increased the cost of many awards.

While economy class awards aren't changing much, there will be some significant increases in the cost of business and first class awards on American Airlines» partners — flights on American Airlines have their own award chart.

This is my current approach after United announced it was drastically increasing the cost of awards on its partner carriers.

Airlines adjust their award charts every few years to take into account internal cost increases, so United's move is not uncommon.

United explains: «We're increasing miles required in these markets for the first time in several years to account for the increased cost of providing transportation, particularly in the premium cabin and particularly on the MileagePlus partner carriers... We faced a decision other airlines have faced — to either increase the number of miles required for partner awards or to eliminate them altogether.»

It's recommended to stick with short haul flights as they pass on fuel surcharges for award travel, greatly increasing the cost of long flights.

On top of that Virgin also changed the number of miles needed to book awards on Delta with Economy Class awards generally decreasing in cost but some Business Class award increasing in cost by over 70 %.

The remaining saver award increases are annoying (no one likes to see award costs go up) but by no means heinous (this isn't a gutting of the award chart).

In March 2014 Club Carlson introduced a new top - tier in its program which immediately raised the cost of an award night (at one of the better hotels) from 50,000 to 70,000 points per night — a staggering 40 % price increase!

This would increase the cost of your award ticket quite significantly over booking directly from North American to the U.S. so it probably wouldn't be the best move.

19 properties are moving categories with 15 properties seeing the price of award nights increase and 4 properties seeing the cost fall.

As airlines increase the cost of award travel, add on yet more surcharges and restrict the availability of awards the value of miles / points will decrease....

Yesterday, while most people's attention was focused on the addition of Premium Economy redemptions to the Singapore Airlines award chart (more on that in a separate post), the airline slipped in a change to the charts in a way that increased the cost of Premium Cabin Saver Awards to certain European cities.

convert Avios points are extremely cost effective when redeemed for short - haul flights on both American Airlines and British Airways, although the cost of an award flight will increase if there are multiple segments as the cost of a ticket with multiple segments is based on the combined cost of each individual segment.

Alaska Airlines increased the cost for business and first class awards on flights with their partner, Emirates.

The big devaluations that Carlson put through its loyalty program last year saw a very large number of properties increase in award night cost — specifically from 50,000 to 70,000 Gold Points per night.

The cost of a Business Class AAdvantage award between the US and London has increased from 50,000 to 57,500 miles each way.

Although Alaska may charge the same number of miles, connections will increase the cost of an award booked with Avios.

21 March 2016 will be the last day to book award travel with AAdvantage Miles before the cost of those awards increases... in some cases by over 40 %.

Increased the cost of premium awards on partner airlines by significant margins (some awards increased in price by over 50 %) making them a lot less attractive than in Increased the cost of premium awards on partner airlines by significant margins (some awards increased in price by over 50 %) making them a lot less attractive than in increased in price by over 50 %) making them a lot less attractive than in the past.

Increased the cost of awards on for travel on its own aircraft so, even if you could find an award seat, the value proposition is quite often simply not there.

One - way Business Class awards between Europe and the Middle East will cost 42,500 AAdvantage Miles (an increase of 42 %) and First Class awards will cost 62,500 (an increase of 56 %).

These are the 12 properties at which an award night will cost 70,000 points from tomorrow (an increase of over 16 %):

The Marriott Rewards chart is mostly linear in nature — the cost of an award night goes up in cost by 5,000 points per category (between Cat 1 and Cat 2 the increase is smaller)-- so, unlike Starwood's chart, there are no specific category moves which would see a property's award cost go up or down by more than another's.

As a result, connections can cause the award cost to increase.

Taxes and fees are required on all award tickets and increase in cost with international travel.

UK - based flyers will see an incredible 72 % increase in the cost of a Delta One award to the west coast if they now wish to travel on dates in the newly introduced Peak Season while US - based flyers will be expected to pay 55 % more for a Delta One award to the UK / Europe.