Sentences with phrase «miles needed for an award»

The amount of miles needed for an award depends on the flight you are trying to book.

The only way to figure out how many miles you need for an award is to use their calculator.

In this case I'm not interested in the actual number of miles needed for each award, instead I'm interested in the ratio between each award type.

(Actually, you'll need slightly fewer than these figures, since one of the benefits of the card is a 10 percent discount on the number of miles needed for award tickets.)

However, it's more common for airlines to devalue their currencies — most often by increasing the amount of miles needed for award flights.

For an online award on Etihad flights only, you can purchase as many as 25 % of the total miles needed for an award flight.

But now, airlines have devalued their miles by raising the number of miles needed for award seats, and by reducing the number of award seats available.

At 2 cents it becomes reasonable to consider buying all the United miles you need for an award because it could be cheaper than a paid fare.

A region - to - region chart means that instead of having to calculate the number of miles for an award from your origin city to your destination city, say Atlanta to Rome, you merely figure out how many miles you need for an award from your origin region to your destination region, in this case North America to Europe.

Here is a guide to booking award tickets in Singapore Airlines Suites, including a list of all Singapore Suites routes, how many miles you need for an award ticket, how to search and find Singapore Suites award flights, and an overview of the KrisFlyer mileage program.

For an online award on Etihad flights only, you can purchase as many as 25 % of the total miles needed for an award flight.

I generally discourage transferring Starpoints to SQ miles because Starpoints are much harder to earn in Singapore than SQ miles (there's no co-branded SPG credit card in Singapore, for example), but if you're just short of miles you need for an award ticket this may be a viable option

Because we are looking at Economy bookings, the number of miles needed for an award that actually flies on United planes cost the same as an award on United's partners.

I also decided to use Etihad's feature where you can purchase up to 25 % of the miles needed for an award flight (which results in you buying miles for 0.9 cents which is amazing).

We've also published an award chart for Everyday Awards so that you'll know the highest number of miles needed for each award.

This price is only available if you purchase the full 60 % of the miles needed for an award ticket.

You could stretch the 237,500 miles for 7 one way business class tickets to India as you need only 40 % of the miles needed for an award ticket and you can purchase rest of the miles during the booking process.

Only when you've found something that you're happy to book should you be purchasing the miles you need for the award.

If you aren't able to spend enough to earn the miles needed for award flights, and you also aren't able to take advantage of the travel perks, you won't be able to justify the cost of carrying the card each year.

When you put together the astronomic increases in the number of miles needed for awards (40 % + increase in a lot of cases) and the fact that American Airlines AAdvantage miles are going to be a lot harder to earn going forward, you get a picture of an AAdvantage program that really isn't that rewarding anymore.

It would be good news for some if the airline was to price Premium Economy closer to Economy Class than to Business Class (in terms of miles needed for an award) but it may be bad need for Business Class award availability if Emirates shrinks Business Class cabins to accommodate the new product.

Alaska Airlines offers its miles for sale at a discounted price on a pretty regular basis (right now they can be purchased for as little as 1.97 cents each) and, if you get targeted for a good offer, it can be worth buying all the miles you need for an award on Cathay Pacific.

American and the other airlines are also increasing the miles needed for some award tickets, especially those in business and first class.

The best use of your way Free Spirit miles is booking nonstop flights, because the airline has a region - based program: The miles needed for an award ticket is based on how many miles the flight is.

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.

The one downside to British Airways is that on a multi-leg award, each leg is priced individually, and then the sum of the miles needed for each award is the total amount of Avios needed.

One of the unique things about LifeMiles» program is that they offer Miles / Money awards, whereby you can purchase up to 60 % of the miles needed for an award ticket at the time you purchase your ticket.

As I wrote in United Award Chart Devaluation: Redeem Miles Before February 1, 2014, it is possible to change the date only of a given award, after the award chart devaluation takes effect on February 1, without increasing the miles needed for the award.