For an online award on Etihad flights only, you can purchase as many as 25 % of the total
miles needed for an award flight.
For an online award on Etihad flights only, you can purchase as many as 25 % of the total
miles needed for an award flight.
However, it's more common for airlines to devalue their currencies — most often by increasing the amount of
miles needed for award flights.
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.
Not exact matches
However, the United
award chart shows that business class saver tickets only cost 60,000 each way, or 120,000 round - trip
for the same exact
flight, a quarter of how many
miles or points you would have
needed with cash back or a statement credit.
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.
For instance, just because you fly 1,504 miles from San Francisco to Austin doesn't mean that you have now earned enough miles for another trip; rather, the 1,500 - odd miles you just flew have earned you a mere fraction of what you'll need to book an award flig
For instance, just because you fly 1,504
miles from San Francisco to Austin doesn't mean that you have now earned enough
miles for another trip; rather, the 1,500 - odd miles you just flew have earned you a mere fraction of what you'll need to book an award flig
for another trip; rather, the 1,500 - odd
miles you just flew have earned you a mere fraction of what you'll
need to book an
award flight.
You can also do your own check to see how many
miles you
need from the airline's website: Just look under the reservations page, and search
for the section that mentions
award flights.
Whither you
need to top up your account
for an
award flight or you have a few unused
miles that could be put to good use by someone else, pooling
miles is a great way to maximize your buying power.
To find
award space on United
flights to Sydney (SYD) and book with ANA Mileage Club
miles, you simply
need to run a search
for partner
awards on ANA's website.
With elite status, you'll
need fewer
miles for market fare
flight awards.
The only reason to really go
for this transfer is if you
need a few more
miles for an
award flight.
To find
award space on United
flights to Sydney (SYD) and book with ANA Mileage Club
miles, you simply
need to run a search
for partner
awards on ANA's website.
With elite status, you'll
need fewer
miles for market fare
flight awards.
Need a few AAdvantage
miles to top off your account in preparation
for your next
award flight?
The only reason to really go
for this transfer is if you
need a few more
miles for an
award flight.
After rolling out a new A380 First Suite and Business Class, increasing the amount of KrisFlyer
miles needed for many
flights and making StarAlliance
award bookings available online, my favorite airline is changing Economy Class fare categories and the KrisFlyer
award miles you earn!
I'd eventually like to integrate this table with my
award chart search tool and custom valuations to help you find the best way to accumulate the
miles you
need for your next
award flight.
The increase in the
miles needed for flights to the US isn't that much of a blow because most of those
awards would be on British Airways.
You either have an
award chart that lists the number of
miles you
need for flights between particular regions — airlines like United, American, and Alaska use this system.
For example, if you fly from Philadelphia (PHL) on American Airlines to Chicago (ORD) to catch a Japan Airlines
flight to Tokyo Narita (NRT), you will
need to look at the partner
award chart to determine how many
miles will be required.
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.
If you
need to travel from Los Angeles, but found an
award from SFO, You can connect through American Airlines from Los Angeles to San Francisco and then on to Etihad
flight for the same amount of
miles.
The changes are widespread and affect all aspects of the Flying Club program including; how many
miles are earned, how many
miles are
needed for award flights, what bonuses elite flyers are
awarded and how many tier points flyers can earn.
We've seen the number of
miles that we
need to book
award travel increase significantly, we've seen the number of
miles we earn
for travel plummet and we've seen American Airlines introduce minimum spend criteria
for elite status... but the number of
miles you
need to upgrade your
flights has, miraculously, remained unchanged.
To redeem
miles for award flights, you
need to find
award availability.
The changes are widespread and affect all aspects of the Flying Club program including; how many
miles are earned, how many
miles are
needed for award flights, what bonuses elite...
I used to think you
needed to have elite status or fly constantly to accrue
miles and redeem then
for award flights.
No longer will you have some advance knowledge of what your
award ticket will cost, a future holiday to look forward to, or even the knowledge that you have enough
miles stored up
for that emergency
flight to visit a family member in
need.
You can pretty easily look up how many
miles you
need for a
flight, then see if
award seats are available on particular dates.
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.
And since Europe is much closer to the U.S. than the Middle East, you'll
need much fewer
miles for an
award flight if Georgia is considered part of Europe.
Unfortunately American Airlines did devalue it's
award chart from when I booked my
flight, so we'll
need to get 230,000
miles to replicate my
flight from Abu Dhabi to LAX
for two people in First Class.
This year, Philippine Airlines has gone beyond the changes of
miles needed for flights and made an
award redemption even more difficult and expensive.
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.
Instead of paying the astronomical American Airlines
award miles needed for a one - way business class
flight, he booked the
flight through the American Express Centurion Concierge.
But
for award flights of less than 500
miles within the contiguous 48 U.S. or Canada, you only
need 7,500
miles each way.
According to the Virgin phone rep I talked with and who priced out various itineraries
for me, to purchase Upper Class
award tickets from London Heathrow to JFK, you'll
need to use 80,000
miles and about $ 800 in taxes and fees
for Virgin
flights, and 90,000
miles plus about $ 600 in taxes and fees to fly Delta.
Negatives: • United
miles were devalued on February 1, 2014 so you will
need a lot more United
miles if you want to redeem them
for international
awards on partner airlines (especially
for first and business class
flights).
Most airlines publish an
awards chart detailing the maximum number of points or
miles you'll
need for a given
flight.
To maximize this benefit
for 2013 you
need to book
award flights now totaling 100,000 redeemed
miles (or more) either today or tomorrow (12/31/2013).
To determine how many
miles you'll
need for an
award flight,
Miles + Cash booking or an upgrade, you'll
need to poke around the mileage calculator.
I wouldn't exactly call this a sweetspot, but it is useful to know that if you ever
need to book a
flight on Air Serbia
for some reason, hopping over to Romania on a Eurotrip perhaps, the only
miles you can use to book their
awards are Etihad
miles.
My husband and I have tons of SPG points, which we've been burning fast on hotel
awards and via transfers to airlines
for flights we
need next year — and in some cases, to simply pad our airline
mile accounts
for the airlines we most fly that accept SPG point transfers (AA and LH, most notably).