Sentences with phrase «more award flight options»

Not exact matches

Airlines typically only offer a certain number of award seats per flight, so your itinerary options will be more limited than if you were paying cash for your ticket.

Other times, reward card users will quickly redeem their points or miles for merchandise or gift cards rather than much more valuable options such as an award flight or a free night's stay.

The more transfer partner options you have, the easier it is to use points for the flight awards you want.

When an airline sells out of its saver inventory of award tickets on any flight, the only option to book with miles is to pay the higher standard or anytime price — which often can be tens of thousands of miles more.

Selecting the second option for «Star Alliance Awards» provides more flights to choose from, including partners but also ANA - operated flights.

They have also increased the value of their award redemption options by offering an extra stopover on their own flights,... read more

Many travel hackers disparage SPG Flights redemptions since more nominal value can be extracted through award stays, but I appreciate the additional flexibility this option gives for redeeming Starpoints.

However, the cheapest option in first class on the very same flight is also 25,000 miles, so be sure to check both the economy and first - class award options in case it makes more sense to sit up front!

The flexibility of a stopover (staying at a destination more than 24 hours after landing en route to another destination) on a one - way international award (2 total for round - trip flights), 2 open - jaws (departing from a different city than the one you landed in), and Starwood Preferred Guest and Alaska credit cards to generate points and miles would be the first option I would consider.

The award flights mentioned here are only some of the options and great value awards that can be booked using Lufthansa Miles & More miles.

This same tactic can be used for award flights booked on partner airlines and this is where understanding what you can and can not do becomes more important — not all airline website will show you the overnight options like AA.com does.

More than that, the airline's frequent flyer program, Asiana Club, offers solid award redemptions on both Asiana and partner flights, making this card a good option for just about anyone, even if you don't fly Asiana.

This means there are more options for award flights and hotel rooms for a September beach trip than you might have had in July or August.

British Airways collects nasty fuel surcharges on a lot of awards, but as you can see exemplified above, there are many options with no fuel surcharges (and even more with low ones — mainly short, direct economy flights).

Unfortunately American does not prominently disclose that these partners are missing during the process of searching for an award, meaning many members pay more than they need to on American's own flights, thinking the website represents all available options.

Overall, this partnership is good news because Virgin Atlantic is a transfer partner of American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest, so there are now more options to book Delta flights without having SkyMiles (though partners like Virgin Atlantic only get access to low - level awards, meaning availability can be slim on certain routes).

I just booked a roundtrip award from CVG - LAX for 17,500 AA miles, booking with Avios or Southwest points would have been more that 17.5 k. I think Reduced Mileage awards can be a great option for longer distance Domestic flights.

Although this flight was part of a NYC - HKG - DPS - HKG - NYC itinerary booked with 150,000 British Airways miles (now Avios), British Airways has since devalued its award chart and your best option is to use 135,000 American Airlines miles for this itinerary, if you don't stop over in Hong Kong for more than 24 hours.

We're always glad to see more options to book award flights on Japan Airlines.