The big keys are that you can earn them quickly, they allow international stopovers and open jaws and
they never have a fuel surcharge.
We've flown a number of times on Air Berlin using Avios or AA miles, and
they never have fuel surcharges.
Not exact matches
With transportation so key to the business, rising
fuel prices hit the company hard, but Glunz
has never made customers pay a
fuel surcharge.
Aeroplan in particular, does add some
fuel surcharges, but they also
have pretty flexible routing rules so you can still find some good deals there (in the US, UnitedMiles
never charge
fuel surcharges).
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.
The best thing about United MileagePlus miles is that you'll
never have to pay exorbitant fees or
fuel surcharges.
The most valuable partners in my opinion are United (which
never charges
fuel surcharges, allows free date changes,
has flexible routing rules, allows one - way awards, and
has dozens of partners to fly on) and Hyatt (where you can stay in incredible hotels that charge $ 1,000 per night with awards as low as 5K and up to a maximum of only 22K points per night).
The funny thing is that, to your point, there are massive
fuel surcharges if you actually fly British Airways with these Avios points, so you
would NEVER want to use them on British Airways.
They
never charge
fuel surcharges, they allow free date changes, they
have very flexible routing rules, they allow one - way awards for half the mileage, they
have a short - haul award for 20,000 miles, they allow for a stopover and an open - jaw so that you can really maximize an award trip into multiple free trips, they
have an around - the - world award to visit tons of cities on one award ticket, and they
have dozens of partners to fly on, most of which can be booked on their website.
It
has some of the great features, like
never charging a
fuel surcharge and allowing stopovers and open jaws, but also
has one major drawback:
United
has not joined this
fuel surcharge club though and I hope it
never will.
If it wasn't for them hideous
fuel surcharges and the fact the miles expire after three years... I
would have burned some here...
Never say n
Never say
nevernever!