You will
not pay fuel surcharges with any Star partner in the Americas, period.
You will also
not pay fuel surcharges on Air New Zealand, but good luck finding availability.
When booking the same partner flight with AA miles as your host program you will
not pay Fuel surcharges.
On United you won't pay any fuel surcharges and fees a very low.
You won't pay fuel surcharges when you book an award flight to South America on United or Avianca.
You won't pay fuel surcharges since Delta does not levy those fees on its own award flights.
You also won't pay fuel surcharges on American within the Western Hemisphere or on Qantas within Austrlia.
Use BA miles on airlines where you don't pay fuel surcharges, like Aer Lingus, Air Berlin, Alaska, USAirways, and TAM.
For example, if you book a flight on an Air Canada plane from New York to London with a stopover in Barcelona and you use your United Miles, you won't pay any fuel surcharges.
Not exact matches
This isn't the cheapest price you'll be able to find between these 2 regions, but you don't need to worry about trying to avoid
paying fuel surcharges with United either!
The
fuel surcharge is only $ 58.20 (and you still won't
pay it if you use American Airlines miles to book).
The caveat is that you will have to
pay a
fuel surcharge for your Miles & More award ticket, while United does
not collect these.
You can't
pay for them with points, which devalues bonus point offers... (See
Fuel surcharges)
For some people,
paying a
fuel surcharge is the only way to fly Lufthansa first class because they need to plan their flights in advance and can't wait to the last minute to book.
Most of these airlines do
not make you
pay fuel or other carrier
surcharges.
Unfortunately, I don't see Star Alliance partners like Asiana, Air China, and Thai Airways on the no
fuel surcharge list, so if you end up booking with them, you'll probably have to
pay some fees.
Unfortunately, for most destinations
not listed above, flying Singapore partners means
paying massive
fuel surcharges in addition to high mileage costs.
I think that the added fees and
fuel surcharges imposed by most foreign carriers are worth it when considering that I don't have to
pay out twice as many miles.
United is one of the Star Alliance partners that Aeroplan does
not force you to
pay fuel surcharges.
Because all these flights are 650 miles or less, you don't have to worry about
paying a
fuel surcharge with the British Airways or Iberia partner flights.
One other potential expense to keep in mind when shopping FlyingBlue rewards ticket, if you fly in the Western Hemisphere with FlyingBlue you will
not have to
pay a
fuel surcharge.
While United charges a pretty hefty 60,000 miles to fly from the U.S. to Europe — it might be worth it because you won't have to
pay a
fuel surcharge.
British Airways flights are also available, but you are well - advised
not to book unless you want to
pay hundreds of dollars in
fuel surcharges for your award ticket.
The problem with flying partners in business class, of course, is that you will have to
pay a whopping 140,000 miles for the privilege, but at least there won't be any insane
fuel surcharges.
Most of the rest of the Membership Rewards airline partners (such as Air France, ANA, Aeroplan) charge stupid
fuel surcharges on most of their flights, which makes them mostly useless for those of us who are so cheap that we don't even want to
pay a few hundred dollars for a premium redemption.
As always, be careful and do
not book your flight on British Airways unless you don't mind
paying their exorbitant
fuel surcharges.
You won't have to
pay any
fuel surcharges on flights departing from Brazil on any airline.
You don't have to
pay fuel surcharges on any award flights on United.
While I wasn't exactly thrilled to
pay it, that's actually pretty low when it comes to
fuel surcharges.
Where United is more expensive with mileage requirements, it often makes up for it by
not forcing you to
pay high
fuel surcharges.
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.
You'll probably have to
pay some pretty hefty
fuel surcharges unless you get kind of lucky when using ANA miles to get to Africa but
paying fees when you only have to spend 104,000 miles is
not that bad of a deal.
Delta, for instance, allows you to book Virgin Atlantic flights with SkyMiles, but you won't have to
pay any
fuel surcharges.
And if you book on Delta, you won't have to
pay any fees, since the airline does
not levy
fuel surcharges.
Not only will you
pay fuel surcharges (albeit smaller than what you would when crossing the Atlantic), but you will also get hit with the very high Heathrow Airport taxes.
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paid, and such price increase is
not a result of an increase in government taxes or a
fuel surcharge allowed by the Canadian Transportation Agency, the customer may cancel their booking provided you contact Scotia Rewards Travel Service by calling 1-800-665-2582 within 7 days of receipt of notice of the increase.
Since United does
not fly to South Africa, you'll have to
pay fuel surcharges if you want to get there with ANA miles.
No matter which class you fly, you won't have to
pay a
fuel surcharge because United doesn't tack one on to the price of an award ticket.
However, if you booked the same flights with Aeroplan, you'd only
pay $ 50 in fees since you don't have to
pay the
fuel surcharges with Aeroplan.
British Airways was an option going through London, but I ruled them out because I didn't want to
pay high
fuel surcharges.
In addition to saving up miles for a «free» trip, don't forget to consider the taxes, fees and
fuel surcharges you may have to
pay.
@Antonio —
not really, they may raise them on ANA's own flights but the mileage program will continue to charge whatever
fuel surcharge applies to a
paid ticket (on the carriers you actually fly) *
You'll
pay some
fuel surcharges, but they're
not as high as other airlines like British Airways and the product / service is top - in - class.
Unfortunately because it's
not a Zone 1 - 3 flight, it's
not eligible for Reward Flight Saver and thus you are charged all the
fuel surcharges, fees and airport charges that come with flying through London (and $ 296 per person, one way, for a «free» ticket is way more than I want to
pay).
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.
Airline miles may make your flight free, but you can't use them to
pay for taxes or
fuel surcharges.
The
fuel surcharges you see in the price of a cash ticket will match the
fuel surcharges you have to
pay on your British Airways award (even if you're
not searching British Airways flights).
Considering that this ticket would normally cost thousands of dollars, it's
not a bad use of ThankYou points, even when you consider the $ 221 worth of taxes and
fuel surcharges that you'd have to
pay.
@jeremy generally US - south america won't involve
fuel surcharges, but it's of course routing - dependent (you
pay what the
surcharge would have been for your exact
paid itinerary).
@ Michael — Delta actually only imposes
fuel surcharges for redemptions originating in Europe, so you wouldn't have to
pay those.