Sentences with phrase «make expensive awards»

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Even an award - winning documentary is only seen by a relatively small number of people, so there's an argument to be made for dramatizing the story with expensive production values and well - known actors portraying the characters.

James Cameron's romantic epic, at the time the most expensive film ever made and the biggest moneymaker of all time, winner of a record - tying 11 Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), and the film that made Cameron the self - proclaimed «king of the world,» makes its long - awaited Blu - ray debut in both Standard Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D sets, both of them numbering four discs and both featuring two new, exclusive documentaries.

An inclusive suite that makes every aspect of e ‑ learning course development simpler, faster, and less expensive, by offering you the use of award - winning authoring tools.

The extra 1 % difference in everyday awards will make up for more than the annual fee of the more expensive card at that point.

This can be very expensive, yet if a case is heard under the «small claims» system, costs are not awarded (although a judge could decide either side may need to pay for a limited amount of the other party's expenses), making it a much less risky bet.

Some airlines tack ridiculous fees on award bookings, and these fees can make using your miles especially expensive.

This often makes economy award tickets too expensive to make sense, but the fees are much more reasonable when you're redeeming for first class.

While an award ticket to Asia on a United partner airline can be expensive, there are three main reasons that make it worthwhile.

This tends to make hotel loyalty programs more expensive than airline programs, which means award redemptions often aren't as valuable.

Those award flights may not be for the routes you find useful, or they may include especially expensive awards that don't make good use of your miles.

But British Airways distance - based award chart actually makes that trip less expensive, mileage-wise so you could credit this particular flight on American to BA.

AAnytime awards are more expensive, only include travel on American Airlines, and are not made available to partners.

Most other programs put Israel in the Middle East, which makes an award ticket much more expensive.

It also is significantly cheaper than booking directly with Qatar, since they use a distance - based award chart which makes long - haul awards prohibitively expensive.

This seems quite suspicious considering United just slashed its award chart making it more expensive to book tickets effective Feb. 1, 2014 — and no doubt more travelers are making award ticket reservations between now and that date.

I suspect that the best use of this will be when people combine the Hyatt Family Rate with an award night booking to make what would be an otherwise expensive trip into a slightly more economical one.

When people complain that Hilton has some expensive award redemptions, I point out that they make it extremely easy to earn points faster.

That makes it easier to accumulate enough points for more expensive — and typically more valuable — awards.

A FlyerTalk member Lionheart revealed what looks like a leaked look at IHG's new award pricing for 2018 and it looks like we might be seeing a pretty substantial devaluation that could make redemptions a lot more expensive for top - tier properties.

Unfortunately, this applies to all the cities in the US to which Asiana flies, which makes flights on their own planes equipped with the new «Smartium» business class product more expensive than partner awards.

The most common use for JMB awards are to fly the famous Emirates first class after Alaska made redeeming for first class on Emirates prohibitively expensive.

Its distance makes it the most expensive domestic destinations you can travel to, and a popular choice for award travelers.

This year, Philippine Airlines has gone beyond the changes of miles needed for flights and made an award redemption even more difficult and expensive.

Alaska has a single award price, which ends up making it very expensive for travel to the relatively nearby Central America.

The first thing to notice is that awards in economy are often very cheap, but awards in business class are often 2.5 x the price, which makes them extremely expensive.

PAL has gone through a number of announed devaluations and have introduced multiple award categories (EcoFlex 1, 2, 3 and Business Flex) as well as a separate award category for their new Premium Economy cabin, making it more difficult and expensive to redeem:

@Gary Leff also did to the math but he inexplicably chose not to emphasize the salient points made at the two links I just provided (may be because it went against his usual narrative since he too found SPG [r.i.p] awards — one of his and other travel bloggers» preferred programs — to be prohibitively expensive).

The latest news is that Delta has made partner award flights 10 - 25 % more expensive than before.

This means that even with the New British Airways Avios Devaluation, the AAdvantage award chart devaluation will make it more expensive to book Cathay Pacific First Class between NYC JFK and Vancouver YVR — 55K AAdvantage miles vs. 50K British Airways Avios.

Among 25 airlines, only two — Southwest and AirBerlin — made less - expensive «saver award seats» available on 100 % of flights, according to a 2015 study of 7,640 booking queries from the loyalty platform Switchfly, conducted by research firm IdeaWorksCompany.

Making matters worse, the Southeast Asia zone in most airline award charts is typically one of the top two most expensive (along with Australia / New Zealand) when departing from the US.