Sentences with phrase «much better award availability»
And there's really one primary use of their miles — that's that Singapore offers much much much better award availability on their own flights for their own members.
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Flights from North America can be tough to snag, but searching Europe to Singapore is much better for award availability.
Award availability from Denver to and from Lima, Medellín and Bogotá was relatively sparse throughout much of the Summer, and the dates each city was available did not align well for our purposes.
Award pricing is much more reasonable for premium economy, with certain dates pricing at 65,000 Skymiles one - way between Detroit and Seoul, Tokyo or Beijing — or even better: 99,000 Skymiles roundtrip for these 3 routes, with great availability.
From these answers, I note that they are confirming a reduction in transparency, have eliminated the benefit of enhanced availability for Medallion members (so much for «better serve our best customers»), and claim that the 2015 award charts they published recently are still in effect even though no longer published.
Generally speaking, revenue - based award redemption programs like Southwest, JetBlue, and VirginAmerica have good availability but this is only because the number of points it costs for an award seat are a function of how much the seat costs.
The only thing we can hope for is that it improves award availability but, although there was good availability when the flights we're first loaded into the reservations system, there doesn't seem to be that much out there now.
Flights from North America can be tough to snag, but searching Europe to Singapore is much better for award availability.
These can be as low as 20,000 miles each way for a Super Saver award, but you will find much better availability at the Saver level for 30,000 miles.
In fact, I would put Spirit award availability a tad above Delta Skymiles, but, again, it gets much better if you are close to FLL.
But Delta SkyMiles has become much better in terms of availability and the improved award calendar.
On the redemption side, the award chart to / from Europe isn't too bad (62,500 miles for a transatlantic one - way in business class) and you get access to much better availability on AF / KL's own flights that when booking with Delta.
With that much lift between the two cities, travelers should have a better chance for more award seats this summer (especially on Air France, which seems to offer more award availability than Delta on this route).
Delta seems to add some as the schedule opens but their best premium cabin international award availability is much closer to departure, this is one of the reasons for the outcry over Delta's new 72 hour rule for changes / cancellations, since it prevents members from converting medium or high availability to low availability when low space opens at the last minute).
Furthermore, your chances of finding award availability for the dates you want are much better if you book early.
In my opinion, given the lack of availability that is continuing to get worse, American may very well end up being the least valuable award mile before much longer.
The award space in business class on Skyteam members Saudia (from Washington DC or New York, through Riyadh and Jeddah) and Aeroflot (a much better airline than you think, and with great availability out of New York and DC through Moscow) is better than on almost any airline.