United miles are even easier to use when you hold the MileagePlus card, as you will have access to
more economy class award availability.
Not exact matches
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Specifically, a round - trip
economy class award ticket will cost 20,000 SkyMiles
more, while a business
class award ticket will require an additional 42,000 miles when booking Virgin Australia.
We'll also take a look at an easy way to gain access to
more economy class saver level
award space with United.
If
economy class is
more your style, the
award rate is 40,000 miles for a round - trip ticket.
Because Etihad's ANA
award chart is distance - based, San Francisco or Los Angeles to Tokyo is
more: 63,000 miles in business
class or 37,000 miles in
economy.
While
award availability in
economy class has generally improved on American Airlines and its partners over the last few years, you will have
more options when you can choose any airline to fly to your destination.
Specifically, a round - trip
economy class award ticket will cost 20,000 SkyMiles
more, while a business
class award ticket will require an additional 42,000 miles when booking Virgin Australia.
This classification makes Flying Blue a go - to program for booking
economy class award flights to Israel, Morocco, and
more.
This often makes
economy award tickets too expensive to make sense, but the fees are much
more reasonable when you're redeeming for first
class.
That means upgrading from
Economy to Business
Class for half of this
award would cost 20,000 additional miles per person, while an upgrade to First
Class would require 37,500
more than an
Economy award.
You can book a round - trip
economy class award flight for only 56,000 miles if
economy is
more your style.
If you want to use SkyMiles to book a flight on Air France, you're going to pay 10,000
more miles for
economy class and 30,000
more miles for business
class than if you booked an
award flight on Delta.
In general, business
class awards cost twice as many Avios as
economy, and first
class awards cost three times
more.
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!
Less Business
Class and Premium
Economy seating is never a good thing at it just makes finding
award seats all that
more difficult.
I've often said that, generally, I can't bring myself to cough up the extra miles needed for a First
Class award ticket when Business
Class on most airlines is
more than good enough for me (that's not me being low - maintenance, that's just how good the Business
Class hard product often is) but I'll happily do whatever it takes not to sit in
Economy.
Passengers originating in the UK will now pay slightly
more for
Economy Class awards on routes to destinations outside the East Coast during peak dates when compared to how much they would have paid at a similar time of year in the past.
On top of this the A380 offers
more Business
Class seating than the 777 (good for
award availability) and the
Economy Class product is
more comfortable - its a win all round.
Though Miles &
More awards carry high fuel surcharges, their redemption rates are relatively comparable to the main domestic airlines, though occasionally with a bit of a discount, such as 50,000 miles for round - trip flights between the U.S. and Europe in
economy class.
Of course, as I discussed in my first article on travel hacking theory, I do value that
award trip at
more than $ 790, in fact, I value it at about $ 1,300, since that's what I'd typically pay for an
economy class ticket to Europe.
More recently Oman Air won two
awards at the World Travel Awards Middle East 2015, wherein the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman came top in the «Middle East's Leading Airline - Business Class» and «Middle East's Leading Airline - Economy Class» categ
awards at the World Travel
Awards Middle East 2015, wherein the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman came top in the «Middle East's Leading Airline - Business Class» and «Middle East's Leading Airline - Economy Class» categ
Awards Middle East 2015, wherein the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman came top in the «Middle East's Leading Airline - Business
Class» and «Middle East's Leading Airline -
Economy Class» categories.
This aircraft is fully configured with 31 Upper
Class, 48 Premium
Economy and 185
Economy seats, allowing
more customers to experience Virgin Atlantic's
award winning service.
There are no
award charts that allow for Premium
Economy seats to be solely booked using points or miles yet but you can use Lufthansa Miles and
More miles to upgrade to Premium
Economy from a paid
Economy Class ticket.
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 airline releases
more business
class award seats at the saver redemption level than
economy seats.
While other programs typically lump
award flights to Tel Aviv as part of the Middle East, North Africa or even the Indian subcontinent — and charge as much as 50 %
more to get there — you can fly round - trip from North America to Israel in
economy class using just 50,000 Flying Blue miles.
In general, you'll find
more value in international business
class awards than you will with
economy class.
You'll need
more lead time for premium
awards, such as an international first -
class ticket, than you will for a domestic
economy flight.
The
economy and first
class Explorer
Awards are an OK value, but the business class awards are incredibly under - priced at only 25 % — 30 % more miles than economy class a
Awards are an OK value, but the business
class awards are incredibly under - priced at only 25 % — 30 % more miles than economy class a
awards are incredibly under - priced at only 25 % — 30 %
more miles than
economy class awardsawards.
However, you may be
more interested in booking
award flights in coach, and you can often get two or even three round - trip
economy flights for the same number of points or miles as a single business or first -
class flight.
The first leg was in United
economy as there was no domestic First
Class award seat available (I monitored award space but it never opened up — more on that in the Anatomy of an Award p
award seat available (I monitored
award space but it never opened up — more on that in the Anatomy of an Award p
award space but it never opened up —
more on that in the Anatomy of an
Award p
Award post).
Booking
awards: Miles &
More basics are laid out in this post, but the key things to keep in mind are that you can only have two stopovers and two open jaws on round - trip
awards, that you can score deals like 30,000 - mile
economy awards between select cities in the US and Europe, and that its
award chart is not the best deal overall, but there are some interesting redemptions like North America to Hawaii for 40,000 miles round - trip in
economy, domestic business - and first -
class awards for 35,000 / 50,000 miles respectively, and business
class to Central and Southeast Asia as well as Australia / New Zealand for 135,000 miles.