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Note that the numbers are approximate to give you a rough idea of how many miles each award requires.

Note that the numbers are approximate to give you a rough idea of how many miles each award requires.

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Airline frequent flier programs have become less rewarding over the last few years by offering fewer upgrades to elite fliers and requiring more miles than ever for award tickets.

So if I am earning miles from credit card spending to use for a domestic round trip economy award that requires 25,000 miles, it has to be for a flight that I would have paid at least $ 500 for.

The chart below shows the round - trip mileage costs plus the round - trip taxes / fees that are required when booking awards with Flying Blue miles.

The American AAdvantage program also uses a region - based award chart so you can add a connecting flight from smaller airports to any of these gateway airports without increasing the number of miles required.

While the taxes and fees are the same between Delta and Virgin Atlantic award tickets, a Virgin Atlantic Upper Classic ticket will require significantly more miles.

When looking for ways to book award flights to London, you will want to keep an eye on carrier - imposed surcharges as well as the miles required by the frequent flyer program you are using.

With a distance - based award chart, you also need to remember that any connecting flights will add to the total flight distance used to calculate the number of miles required for your award ticket.

(Note that one - way award tickets require half the miles of a round - trip booking.)

The 60,000 MileagePlus miles required for an economy class award are not far from the 55,000 Mileage Club miles required by ANA, but ANA is a much better choice for business class if you have the necessary points.

Since American AAdvantage uses a region - based award chart, the miles required to book an award ticket are the same regardless of your city of origin in the United States.

Japan Airlines Mileage Bank will require the fewest miles from the East Coast for an economy class award ticket, at just 39,000 Mileage Bank miles round - trip.

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If you are looking to connect to one of the cities listed in the award chart, extra miles will be required.

If you don't have the required miles in your SkyPass account and you find award space, you can call Korean Air to put the award on hold so you have time to transfer points into your account.

As you can see, Flying Blue requires 5,000 more miles to fly Delta than Korean Air SkyPass, but it has the same redemption rate for award flights on Alaska Airlines.

Korean Air SkyPass requires 45,000 miles for a round - trip business class award ticket which is 15,000 miles fewer than the next closest program, Singapore Airlines.

Here are the redemption rates for round - trip award tickets booked with United MileagePlus miles, and estimates of the taxes and fees required for these bookings:

The American AAdvantage program uses a region - based award chart, so flights from anywhere in the United States to Australia will require the same number of miles.

You'll notice that Delta requires significantly more miles to book award flights with its partner Virgin Australia.

Specifically, a round - trip economy class award ticket will cost 20,000 SkyMiles more, while a business class award ticket will require an additional 42,000 miles when booking Virgin Australia.

The hard part is knowing how many miles saver level will require without a public award chart.

Standard Awards give you more availability while requiring more miles, but are still capacity - restricted unless you're a MileagePlus Premier member or United MileagePlus ® Explorer Card holder.

Japan Airlines Mileage Bank requires the fewest miles for a round - trip nonstop economy class award on American Airlines or Qantas to Sydney or Brisbane at 60,000 miles.

Except for Melbourne, the redemption rates for economy, business, and first class awards from the U.S. to major cities in eastern Australia will require the same number of Japan Airlines Mileage Bank miles.

In early 2017, Delta started requiring more miles to book award flights with partners than if you booked the same route on a flight operated by Delta.

The extra 5,000 miles you earn could be just what you need to reach the number of miles required for a business class award.

Singapore Airlines will let you book one - way award tickets and stopovers but will require more miles.

Unlike booking Korean Air first class, you aren't required to use Korean SkyPass miles to book business class award tickets.

Singapore Airlines has an entirely separate award chart for flights on Virgin Atlantic and requires few miles than using your Singapore miles on Star Alliance flights.

You'll only have 10,000 miles left over for the second award to book later, and this is 20 % of the amount required.

Technically, AAnytime awards are often available, but they require way too many miles.

Japan Airlines Mileage Bank requires the fewest miles for a round - trip nonstop economy class award on American Airlines or Qantas to Sydney or Brisbane at 60,000 miles.

American AAdvantage devalued their award chart in early 2016, but Alaska Airlines has not changed the miles required for flights on American Airlines.

Remember I said that sometimes the same award can require more or fewer miles in different programs?

A better strategy is to book each award using 30,000 miles (60 % of the amount required).

Specifically, a round - trip economy class award ticket will cost 20,000 SkyMiles more, while a business class award ticket will require an additional 42,000 miles when booking Virgin Australia.

The hard part is knowing how many miles saver level will require without a public award chart.

In addition to the low amount of miles required, there are a couple other highlights of an American Airlines award: one - way award travel is permitted, and a stopover is allowed as well.

Here are the redemption rates for round - trip award tickets booked with United MileagePlus miles, and estimates of the taxes and fees required for these bookings:

If you need to connect on American Airlines (or another partner airline) to get to your flight on Japan Airlines, you will need to use the partner award chart to determine the number of miles required.

That's not the total for a one - way award ticket, though: it's the total miles required for a round - trip economy class award.

And because British Airways has an award redemption chart that's organized by distance flown instead of region, you'll only to cash in 25,000 British Airways miles on a roundtrip ticket from Los Angeles to Honolulu instead of the 45,000 miles American requires for that same flight.

AA Reduced Mileage Awards require you to not only have American Airlines miles that you want to redeem, but also to have an American Airlines co-branded credit card.

That means upgrading from Economy to Business Class for half of this award would cost 20,000 additional miles per person, while an upgrade to First Class would require 37,500 more than an Economy award.

When Alex booked our flight (back in 2016), this award required fewer miles, but the taxes were higher.

You can pay their AAnytime award rates, but it requires an unreasonable amount of miles.

Virgin Atlantic requires 105,000 miles for a one - way award in Upper Class plus just over $ 500 for taxes and fees.

Because this is an award trip within the Continental US, it requires just 12,500 miles per person instead of the 20,000 miles that would have been required if a direct - from - Honolulu option were available.