After February 1, when
the new partner award chart takes effect, that'll increase to 140,000 United miles (let's assume the taxes and fees stay the same for now).
Not exact matches
The
partner award chart for Etihad prices per segment, not per direction, so your best value is the Etihad non-stop routes to Abu Dhabi from Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles,
New York, San Francisco, and Washington.
While US Airways miles can be used for
award flights across all its
new oneworld
partners, the off - peak
award chart only applies to
awards on US Airways operated flights.
Unfortunately, other airline
partners such as Air
New Zealand and South African Airways don't have
award charts that are competitive.
They've already implemented a
new award chart for
partner award bookings, including American Airlines
award bookings like the one I was booking today.
You can visit American's website to find the current
award chart for travel booked on or before March 21, as well as the
new award charts for travel on American and travel on
partner airlines when booked on or after March 22.
Under the
new program, the best values are on specific routes, but since there are two different
award charts, they differ depending on whether you're flying on Asiana or a
partner airline.
The airline has also created a whole
new chart for redemptions on
partner airlines (it currently uses a single
chart for all
awards, whether on United itself or otherwise).
One quirk of the
new award chart is that select routes will now cost fewer miles when booked as a
partner award rather than an
award exclusively on Singapore Airlines / SilkAir.
When Air
New Zealand came out with changes to its frequent flyer program from points to dollars in 2004, I worried about what it would mean for the future of frequent flyer program value, although they kept both a points as money idea and a traditional
award chart (with saver
awards also continuing to be made available to
partner airlines).
Remember, except for Europe, Off - Peak
partner awards will be history when the
new award chart takes effect.
United recently implemented
new changes to its
award charts, where certain Star Alliance
partner awards priced at a higher level than
awards on United Airlines.
Here's the
new AAdvantage
partner award chart for travel originating in the US (all prices one - way):
That rate went up to 95K after the
charts were deleted and the
new partner saver
award rate on that route is 115K one - way.
Japan Airlines First Class is among the best in the world, and is the best value
award from the United States in terms of duration and
partner product on the
new American Airlines oneworld alliance
award chart.
And here is the
NEW AAdvantage
award chart as of March 22, 2016, from the U.S., flying oneworld or AAdvantage
partners: