Sentences with phrase «needed for award seats»

But now, airlines have devalued their miles by raising the number of miles needed for award seats, and by reducing the number of award seats available.

Not exact matches

To get the most out of airline miles, you really need to pay attention to things like what airline partners you can use with which miles, where to search for award seats, and how many miles is a «good» price to pay.

There's also a handy calculator that will tell you how many points you'll need for flights without logging in, but it won't tell you whether award seats are available on the day you want to travel.

But with airlines increasing the number of miles needed for many awards, and reducing the number of seats they make available for the lowest mileage levels, these programs have lost some of their value.

Similarly, for customers needing more than 1 award seat on a particular flight (maybe a family of 4), booking requires a great deal more points and more work to find multiple award seats.

American Airlines surprised many today when it announced several customer - friendly changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex Awards» will allow customers to book one - way tickets for half the amount of miles needed for a round - trip ticket, and will also let passengers book multi-city itineraries and combine award seats with non-award seats.Under the old paradigm, passengers could only book round - trips to and from the same city and were forced to fly in an award seat of equal value for both legs of the journey.This often made booking award travel an exercise in futility — for example, an award seat might be available only on an outbound journey, but not the return trip.But now passengers will be able to fly to New York in an award seat, and return in a premium - fare seat if a return award seat is not available.

We've been covering the topic all week, first talking about the need for a pool of domestic miles, and then tricks for searching for award seats with those miles.

Delta also has no fee for last - minute award bookings and opens up a larger percentage of seats last minute than most airlines, so if you need an award flight on short order, it's a great option.

Virgin's Elevate program is based on a «points per dollar» system, so the number of points needed to redeem for award travel vary based on price and seat availability.

Though Delta isn't known for offering a generous amount of award space to its partners, I was able to find four first - class award seats available in August from Denver to Maui via Los Angeles and Seattle using the online award search engine for Alaska Airlines, which you don't even need an account to use.

It's important to remember that not all award seats that are shown on the Etihad Guest website are available to be booked using AAdvantage Miles — Etihad needs to have «Guest Business» awards available for there to be availability for AAdvantage miles redemptions.

One thing to keep in mind is that ANA won't always show you the partners available for booking, so you sometimes you'll need to search United and Aeroplan for flights to Bangkok and then call up ANA to locate the partner award seats.

As stated, award availability for (saver) business class to New Zealand on United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with business class seats between the US and Australia / New Zealand.

so that means that you need to have KrisFlyer Miles in the bank to give yourself the best chance of gabbing the award seats you're looking for.

Sometimes you can purchase the miles needed to book an award business / first class seat for the same price you would have paid for an economy revenue ticket.

You can pretty easily look up how many miles you need for a flight, then see if award seats are available on particular dates.

Let's assume you need two business class award seats for a flight between Los Angeles and Paris — the most popular European travel destination.

As it's not possible to book partner flights or search for seats online, you'll need to look for available award seats on the partner airlines website.

There is no fee for calling to book Flying Club seats, which is a relief since you need to call to get many of the awards.

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