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Focus only on the posts that cover how to transfer your points and approximately how much the fuel surcharges will be.

That said, I think it's hard to come up with a generalized value for a particular currency — it depends on where you want to go, what class of travel you want, and how much fuel surcharges and fees matter.

Not exact matches

(Update 02/03/17: Air Miles commented to clarify: «Collectors had told us that they wanted to be able to use more Miles to get flights, rather than having to pay so much out of pocket for fuel surcharges, which are imposed by the airlines.

Don't: You pretty much can't get around the high fuel surcharges flying to Europe.

Virgin Atlantic itself pretty much only flies to / from the UK, and they tack on heavy fuel surcharges to their award flights.

Air Canada flights, for example will cost you much more in fuel surcharges than United flights.

Fuel surcharge or not, you'll often find some parts of the world like Asia and South America are much cheaper to visit than Europe.

These fuel surcharges can be several hundred dollars, and when added to the mandatory taxes (even United charges those) you might pay as much as $ 1,000 for your round - trip first class award.

It is also unlikely that you will save much on the taxes and fees since all flights have to be operated by US Airways and Aeroplan awards do not charge fuel surcharges on flights operated by US Airways.

The recent AA award Fuel surcharge scare allowed us to see the danger in holding miles; overnight they can become worth much, much less.

There is a fuel surcharge of EUR45pp on top of the price for diving, and trips are very much dependent on weather conditions.

I've flown this route before and fees were very minimal so I don't expect the loss of fuel surcharges to do much here.

Sometimes known as «fuel surcharges» — although they no longer have much to do with the price of fuel — carrier - imposed surcharges are collected by some loyalty programs when you book an award ticket.

While they have much higher fuel surcharges than US based carriers, this still may be a good use of your American Express Membership Rewards points or Citi Thank You points — both of which can be transferred into Flying Blue.

Note, however, that Air France does add a fuel surcharge, and while it's not much in economy, it may add around $ 500 to the cost of your taxes in business.

For one, they pass on fuel surcharges on their partner award flights and I'm not sure how much those fees can be.

Well, quite simply, because the price of aviation fuel has dropped over 40 % in the past twelve months and we haven't seen nearly that much of a drop in fuel surcharges.

In addition, cardholders will be responsible for paying both government imposed taxes and fees as well as carrier imposed fees and fuel surcharges that can add up to as much as $ 2,500.

While Miles & More bargains can be spectacular for example, 30,000 miles in economy and 55,000 in business per roundtrip between North America and Europe it also often has high fuel surcharges, which can be as much as $ 1,000 for premium class flights.

Sometimes known as «fuel surcharges» — although they no longer have much to do with the price of fuel — carrier - imposed surcharges are collected by American AAdvantage when you book certain award tickets.

Sometimes known as «fuel surcharges» — although they no longer have much to do with the price of fuel — carrier - imposed surcharges are never collected by United Airlines when you book award tickets.

If you are planning a trip the USA using Miles & More Miles you can fly on Polish LOT and pay much lower fuel surcharges than on Lufthansa, SWISS, and Austrian Airlines.

Much like British Airways, Qantas levies massive fuel surcharges on award tickets.

I don't mind the taxes so much, but the fuel surcharges along with everything else start to become expensive.

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That's a great value for a tough award, and much cheaper than paying hundreds of dollars in fuel surcharges on British Airways.

If you use your Singapore Airlines miles to book a flight with Star Alliance partner United, you should not have to pay fuel surcharges and if you use your Flying Blue miles to book a flight with SkyTeam partner Delta you should have to pay much less in fuel surcharges.

It was much cheaper to fly in Singapore Airlines but they recently eliminated their 15 % online booking discount and also increased the price of award tickets to many destinations, although they eliminated fuel surcharges on their own awards.

These awards still have fuel surcharges, but they are usually much less than when booking premium cabin flights on Virgin Atlantic metal.

If you carefully choose airlines and avoid the ones with fuel surcharges, you can, sometimes save as much as 50 % of the miles.

As much as I hate fuel surcharges — and I really, really hate fuel surcharges — I would rather fly with ANA.

If you can fly to the rest of Asia in low season, you will save even more, and then some, as the ANA fuel surcharge is much less for the flights to Asia even if you route them through Japan.

And yes, you should fly on ANA metal whenever possible to avoid much higher fuel surcharges from the ANA Star partners.

And even if you're one of those people that would only ever book an award flight, the premium from booking a pure award flight to this upgrade isn't much considering the large taxes and fuel surcharges on BA award travel.

Other Alaska partners don't have good award space either (Flying Blue), or cost too much in miles (Emirates) or cash for fuel surcharges (British Airways).

Awards from the mainland to Hawaii — which is part of the United States, thank you very much — also have no fuel surcharges.

I didn't pay it much mind, because Virgin's fuel surcharges have historically made economy redemptions utterly irrational — you spend miles but still come out of pocket the bulk of a paid fare.

Since it's such a short leg, it didn't add much distance to the trip nor did it add any significant fuel surcharges so essentially I have a one - way trip with 3 stopovers!

I fear all the legacies will be going to a revenue - based system in the coming years and MileagePlus will one day add fuel surcharges to redemptions, but right now United's award charts, Star Alliance partners, generous routing rules, lack of fuel surcharges, and ability to quickly and easily book more award travel online makes it a program much better than even AAdvantage in terms of award redemption.

These flight have much lighter fuel surcharges and of course don't have the APD fees.

It differs greatly from what you were used to with Star (starting with the insane fuel surcharges on British Airways, which makes getting to Europe much more difficult, and Africa basically impossible without surcharges).

I like dropping fuel surcharges, but they don't drop much in premium cabins which is how I've learned to use their points.

- If you have an Iberia account with miles in it (including a transfer from AMEX or Starwood) then you can transfer BA Avios into Iberia at a 1:1 ratio and save on much lighter fuel surcharges for travel on Iberia.

Yes, fuel surcharges are high, but we like the British Airways business class product (my husband likes it about as much as the old Lufthansa first class, see Lufthansa First Class Review) we'll get the best value for our purposes here since we prefer international travel in business or first class.