If you'd like to see the specific award chart, see the complete list
of airline award charts.
Not exact matches
News
of devaluations hit every year, especially as
airlines begin to move away from standard
award charts.
For example, an American
Airlines frequent flyer can use AAdvantage miles to book a flight on British Airways, and the cost
of that ticket will be based on the American
Airlines mileage
award chart.
Alaska
Airlines offers a vast range of partner airlines as well as a very reasonable awards redemption chart, making this airline and its co-branded credit card a great inv
Airlines offers a vast range
of partner
airlines as well as a very reasonable awards redemption chart, making this airline and its co-branded credit card a great inv
airlines as well as a very reasonable
awards redemption
chart, making this
airline and its co-branded credit card a great investment.
Some
airlines like Southwest do not publish a fixed
award chart; instead, the cost
of an
award flight fluctuates to match the cash sticker price
of the paid fare equivalent.
Unfortunately, Delta Air Lines does not publish an
award chart, and instead provides the redemption rate based on a number
of factors that the
airline decides.
The remaining states are part
of Zone 4; Singapore KrisFlyer's
award chart for flights on Alaska
Airlines does not allow for
award bookings to Hawaii from Zone 4.
However, if you can find
award space on partners like American
Airlines, you can get a lot
of value from their distance - based
award chart.
Avios are the shared mileage currency
of British Airways and Iberian
Airlines — but you can use them for far more than travel on these two European carriers, and you can take advantage
of their distance
award chart for short flights.
While they no longer have an
award chart, you will pay similar prices to those
of the other major
airlines, starting around 10,000 miles for a one - way domestic ticket.
A lot
of airline programs have gotten rid
of their Around the World
award charts, but ANA basically turned their old distance - based program into an Around the World
chart when they made their program changes.
Singapore
Airlines has a handful
of other sweet spots in their
award chart, and flights on United within the U.S. in business or first class is one
of them.
The mileage cost to fly one
of ANA's partner
airlines to Japan aren't as good redeeming miles for ANA flights, but the
award chart does have a few solid partner redemption options.
SkyMiles is the loyalty program that many love to hate, and this chorus
of negativity has only swelled with the
airline's most recent changes (including removing
award charts from its website and expansion
of its basic economy fares).
They may very well be disappearing once US Airways and American
Airlines merge toward the start
of 2015 as the combined
airline may have a very different
award chart.
And oddly enough, the needlessly complicated 5 - tier Delta
award chart (which
of course doesn't actually exist, wink, wink) means that when lowest - level redemptions aren't available on any
airline and you're considering a more expensive
award, Delta may actually be cheaper than the others thanks to all their intermediate
award tiers.
Similar to Virgin Atlantic, this program has different
award charts for each
of its partner
airlines.
On top
of the better
award chart, Alaska
Airlines also allows you to book stopovers which makes it easy to see multiple destinations with one booking.
As mentioned earlier, Etihad has an
award chart for each
of their 24
airline partners.
For ClassicFlight
awards, Air Canada's
award chart is usually better than many
of its partners, including United, but the
airline often passes on fuel surcharges levied by partners.
A complete list
of off - peak discounted
award pricing can be found on this American
Airlines AAdvantage
award chart.
If you need to connect on American
Airlines (or another partner
airline) to get to your flight on Japan
Airlines, you will need to use the partner
award chart to determine the number
of miles required.
You'd be doing yourself a favor to study some
of the
award charts of the above listed
airlines.
Why don't
airlines like Southwest and JetBlue have
award charts that spell out the cost
of their frequent flier
awards?
Additionally, remember you can now transfer your miles to Alaska
Airlines and make use
of Alaska's
award chart and partners.
Once American
Airlines devalues their
award chart on March 22 you'll find that the cost
of many tickets becomes less than affordable.
If you look at the
award booking
chart of United
Airlines, it has split South America into two different regions: Southern South America and Northern South America.
Often
award prices are the same regardless
of which
airline you fly within the carrier's alliance or how many connections you make, so look around if you don't see
award availability right away or consider accumulating miles with a different carrier in the same alliance if it has more a better
award chart.
That's because Korean, unlike most other
airline award charts, considers Hawaii one
of the U.S. states, rather than a separate region.
United
Airlines, for example, devalued their
award chart last year but they gave us plenty
of notice and warning before the changes took effect.
Like many
airline loyalty programs, Air France / KLM Flying Blue uses a region - based
award chart; regardless
of your home airport in the United States, the miles required for an
award booking will be the same.
For partner
awards, Japan
Airlines uses a distance - based
award chart that is divided into tiers based on the number
of flight miles.
I've also written about a nice opportunity to get free stopovers on domestic flights, making the Alaska
Airlines award chart particularly valuable: How to Book
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The Alaska
Airlines award chart has a number
of unique opportunities.
Most
airlines publish
award charts, but JetBlue bases the amount
of points needed for redemption on the fare and other factors.
Bottom Line: Etihad's devaluation
of the Brussels
Airlines award chart hurts, but there is still value to be had.
The mileage cost to fly one
of ANA's partner
airlines to Japan aren't as good redeeming miles for ANA flights, but the
award chart does have a few solid partner redemption options.
Promo
awards, offering 25 - 50 percent off the standard
award chart, are available each month for select flights, but most passengers will spend the bulk
of their miles on classic
awards, which can be used on any partner
airline but not on first class cabins.
The
airline does not publish an
award chart, so the price
of any
award can only be determined by searching on JetBlue's site and viewing the results.
As one
of Etihad's few
airline partners, most travelers will have no reasonable alternatives to the American
Airlines award chart.
Singapore
Airlines has a pretty good Star Alliance partner
award chart right now, and Singapore miles are insanely easy to get ahold
of considering that they are 1:1 transfer partners
of American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Points, and Starwood Preferred Guest Starpoints.
And Delta has done much to erode trust in recent years, most importantly by eliminating
award charts and becoming famous for devaluing the Skymiles program with no notice (for example, by charging significantly more Skymiles to fly a partner
airline within 21 days
of departure).
While economy class
awards aren't changing much, there will be some significant increases in the cost
of business and first class
awards on American
Airlines» partners — flights on American
Airlines have their own
award chart.
American
Airlines announced several sweeping changes to its loyalty program last year, including a devalued
award chart, fewer upgrades for elite members, and plans to begin
awarding miles on the basis
of revenue — rather than distance — sometime in 2016.
Thanks to their 2011
award chart «devaluation» that converted Avios into a distance - based redemption program, it's usually advantageous to book American
Airlines, US Airways, and Alaska
Airlines flights that are less than 1,150 miles in each direction with Avios instead
of the actual miles
of the carrier.
I suggest always confirming with the actual
award charts or mileage calculators found on the official website
of the
airlines.
Singapore
Airlines just dropped a devaluation on its own
award chart although it came with the removal
of surcharges, so it wasn't a total loss.
Airlines like Delta (Amex MR transfer partner), Southwest
Airlines (Chase UR transfer partner) and even United (Chase UR partner) have adopted a variable
award chart for all or some
of their flights.
While the Hawaiian
Airlines award chart isn't necessarily the cheapest way to get to Hawaii, it can make a lot
of sense if you're located in one
of their gateways, or you can board a feeder flight from JetBlue or Virgin America.
JAL, which uses a distance - based
award chart for redemptions on partner
airlines, has the same rate
of 40,000 miles for some routes, but it can go up to 55,000 miles or more to certain destinations.