Sentences with phrase «miles than currency»

In fact, there are now more unredeemed frequent flyer miles than currency in circulation — around the world!

Not exact matches

What's more important, however, is that there are times when using a partner airline's currency might get you a better deal than paying for your ticket with United miles.

The combination of the bonus categories and the ability to redeem for up to two cents per mile makes this card more valuable than other fixed - value currencies, such as Barclaycard Arrival miles or Capital One Venture miles.

What's more important, however, is that there are times when using a partner airline's currency might get you a better deal than paying for your ticket with United miles.

Yes, I'd far rather earn AAdvantage miles than Avios as my redeemable currency... but not so much that I'm prepared to stay away from home even more and spend the best part of another $ 5,000.

Starpoints are worth even more than the cash - back currencies, assuming you prefer to redeem for international awards in premium cabins, which is where miles get their maximum value.

When it comes to deciding which points currency is better, I think having the option to transfer Ultimate Rewards points out to travel partners makes them more valuable than United MileagePlus miles, especially since United is one of the transfer partners.

Even if I was to convert the Starpoints to airlines miles (I'll explain how in a moment) the miles would still be costing me 1.82 cents each — that's more than I value any airline currency at.

For tickets purchased in a currency other than U.S. dollars, we will convert the purchase to U.S. dollars using an industry standard exchange rate and then calculate the number of miles you will earn.

If you have no apparent, immediate need for the AAdvantage Miles — Starpoints can be converted into a lot of other airline currencies so it's a more useful holding currency than AAdvantage miles.

Both loyalty currencies cost around the same in the promotions but with MileagePlus miles you can avoid paying fuel surcharges when using them on United and a number of other airlines and, on top of that, you can purchase long - haul premium cabin awards on United for fewer miles than you can on British Airways.

This could be useful for spend in categories where none of your other credit cards offers a bonus — 2 Membership Rewards points are generally more valuable than one point / mile in any other major loyalty currency.

Travel hackers have more choices than ever when it comes to which points or miles currency to use when making an award booking.

But it's also another reminder that better than keeping a stash of United miles is keeping stashes of various transferable currencies.

ThankYou Points are a bit different than the other cards I have mentioned in that they are a credit card currency, not miles or hotel points.

For tickets purchased in a currency other than US dollars, we will convert the purchase to US dollars and then calculate the number of miles you will earn.

Delta miles may be in general tougher to use than other major US currencies, but they've also been pretty easy to earn.

For my own travels this year I've redeem more Korean Air SkyPass miles than any other mileage currency.

I'm known as the guy who coined the term «Skypesos» for their currency, on the whole their miles are worth less than miles in the United, American, and US Airways frequent flyer programs.

Bitcoin has outpaced every single nation - state issued fiat currency by miles and continues to perform better than commodities like precious metals.