Sentences with phrase «mile route makes»

Choosing one «best ride» in California is nearly impossible, but this 32 - mile route makes a pretty convincing case for itself.

Not exact matches

The company has made strides in developing the technology, in December Baidu's modified BMW 3 - Series was able to drive an 18.6 - mile route.

But, leaked internal documents from Hyperloop One, one of two companies working to make Musk's dream a reality, reveal the estimated cost for a 107 - mile route in the Bay Area, California is between $ 84m and $ 121m per mile.

In 2013, MS Nordic Orion made history by becoming the first bulk carrier to make the historically treacherous trip, hauling a load of B.C. coal to Finland and shaving about 1,000 nautical miles off its usual route through the Panama Canal.

A regional charter school as designated by the board, and whose charter provides for transportation of all students from charter municipalities shall also be reimbursed by the commonwealth under section 16C of chapter 71 for transportation provided to pupils residing outside the municipality where the charter school is located, but no reimbursement for transportation between the charter school and home shall be made on account of any pupil who resides less than 1.5 miles from the charter school, measured by a commonly traveled route.

The Proving Ground is made up of 120 km (75 miles) of paved and off - road routes, including a 10.3 km (6.4 - mile) high - speed oval, gravel off - road tracks, high - vibration road surfaces, brake test facilities and different gradients.

Spanning two thousand miles and traversing six states from Missouri to the Pacific coast, the Oregon Trail is the route that made America.

In 1846, Jenny makes the 2,000 - mile route in five months, walking alongside the covered wagon filled with her family's belongings; twenty - first - century Katie travels to Oregon in five days, sharing the car's backseat with her younger brother, nicknamed Mr. Annoying.

About 95 parade entries, made up of a multitude of schools, civic groups and social clubs, will don the theme of «Inside Santa's Workshop,» as they travel the 1 - mile parade route on Jefferson Avenue from Del Rio Road to Overland Drive.

If you manage to avail such award at 50 % off rate on the Europe — North America route, you'll need to pay only 25,000 FlyingBlue miles for one way business class tickets and 12,500 miles for one way economy class tickets, making it an excellent deal!

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.

Aeroplan adds very high taxes and fuel surcharges to redemptions on Air Canada flights making Aeroplan miles worth less than 1 cent for most popular routes.

I don't mind mileage «jogs» (where I go to a new destination and check it out for a day or two) and don't mind «playing around» with fares / routing to get an extra connection and 10 - 20 % more miles on trips I am already making.

Though the 2013 Flying Blue devaluation made flying in economy much easier, the number of miles required for first class awards increased as much as 80 percent on some routes.

Singapore Airlines has considered re-launching its record - holding 9,534 - mile, 19 - hour journey between Singapore and New York City, which the airline cancelled in 2013 when fuel costs made the route unprofitable.

If there are any history lovers in your group, make sure you walk the Freedom Trail, a 2.5 - mile, red - lined route that takes in many landmarks related to the rich history of the American Revolution.

If you already have a lot of travel booked and can't make the most of the award availability that's around right now (and you're miles rich), then using miles for upgrades may be a good idea — especially on routes like Dallas — Hong Kong.

Making its inaugural journey in the 1920s, Africa's legendary Blue Train travels across the continent on an epic 994 - mile route from Cape Town to Johannesburg.

Now, AAdvantage has made a positive change, when traveling on award ticket on Cathay Pacific to India, you would pay the same amount of miles as needed for trans - Atlantic routes.

Taking overall track length into consideration, the San Diego Trolley transported 2,239 daily passengers per route mile in Q4 2014, making it the twelfth busiest Light rail system on a per mile basis over this time period.

What makes Alaska Airlines miles so valuable is that they have a wealth of partners and some nice routing rules.

I could have made this more complicated by factoring in the frequency with which I fly each of those routes (that probably would have bumped up the calculation a bit) and I haven't taken into account the fact that you also earn Elite Qualifying Miles on tickets purchased with money rather than miles.

That makes MileagePlus miles very valuable for certain routes.

I called in just to make sure that this was a valid booking and didn't get a 100 % yes — it was more like, «we are pretty sure you can do that but the only way we can tell you for sure is if you transfer miles to ANA...» Thus, while this route should work according to the rules above, I'd always try to double check with ANA before planning on such a booking.

It is certainly worth it, If you already have KrisFlyer miles in your account and are planning to make a trip on any of these routes.

But, Chennai - London - Boston route is only 8,386 miles which makes me think that the distance is calculated over pacific route MAA - HKG - BOS which is 10,278 miles.

A flight between Hawaii and Asia costs fewer miles than from the continental U.S. Those are probably the only routes where it might make sense to use LifeMiles for business class redemptions.

To save miles, you need to make sure the route from Boston to Dublin to Your Final Destination doesn't exceed 5,000 miles (see the Asia Miles chart), because the next 5,001 - 7500 band requires 30 % -50 % more miles.

This would make it the cheapest redemption out of any airline (25,000 miles cheaper than United or American) for business class on this route.

With the introduction of so many different award classes, the miles needed for an award have changed drastically: Some of the «Standard» awards have dropped by more than 20 % — that was to be expected as all the routes in question have offered very cheap economy fares over the last year, making a redemption on these routes generally unattractive.

Often, there is better award availability on these types of direct flights making this a good route to watch when it comes to redeeming miles.

@ flyer — If the routing and airlines stay the same you can make changes without being charged the difference in miles.

Probably United, but a case could be made for Alaska miles if you don't mind routing via Asia on Cathay Pacific.

Since the routes span about 2,500 miles» worth of the continental United States, though, they make for a great mileage redemption value.

Couple reasons: - People actually want to travel on those blackout dates, which makes the mileage less valuable - You can transfer UR points to Singapore Airlines now and usually fly similar routes for less miles

By Associated Press, 07-11-11 The race director of a 100 - mile ultra-marathon foot race through the Flathead National Forest has cancelled the event due to lingering snow on the route that he says would make the course too dangerous for runners and likely prevent anyone from finishing within the required 36 - hour limit.

If you'd rather not make the trek south, members also suggested following E65 along the Bay of Kotor — it's only a 24 - mile (37 km) round trip along this scenic route from Kotor to Risan.