Sentences with phrase «miles needed for award seats»

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.

Not exact matches

To get the most out of airline miles, you really need to pay attention to things like what airline partners you can use with which miles, where to search for award seats, and how many miles is a «good» price to pay.

But with airlines increasing the number of miles needed for many awards, and reducing the number of seats they make available for the lowest mileage levels, these programs have lost some of their value.

American Airlines surprised many today when it announced several customer - friendly changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex Awards» will allow customers to book one - way tickets for half the amount of miles needed for a round - trip ticket, and will also let passengers book multi-city itineraries and combine award seats with non-award seats.Under the old paradigm, passengers could only book round - trips to and from the same city and were forced to fly in an award seat of equal value for both legs of the journey.This often made booking award travel an exercise in futility — for example, an award seat might be available only on an outbound journey, but not the return trip.But now passengers will be able to fly to New York in an award seat, and return in a premium - fare seat if a return award seat is not available.

We've been covering the topic all week, first talking about the need for a pool of domestic miles, and then tricks for searching for award seats with those miles.

It's important to remember that not all award seats that are shown on the Etihad Guest website are available to be booked using AAdvantage Miles — Etihad needs to have «Guest Business» awards available for there to be availability for AAdvantage miles redemptions.

Sometimes you can purchase the miles needed to book an award business / first class seat for the same price you would have paid for an economy revenue ticket.

You can pretty easily look up how many miles you need for a flight, then see if award seats are available on particular dates.