Sentences with phrase «of partner award availability»

It looks to me like Lufthansa has just recently released quite a bit of partner award availability for travel from the US to Europe this summer in Business Class.

Not exact matches

While several airlines, including United, Japan Airlines, and All Nippon Airways, offer direct flights between New York and Tokyo, Korean Air offers the most frequent flyer award availability — useful for us, since we only had a little bit of schedule flexibility — and is a transfer partner of Chase, whose points we had already started to earn.

Since Aeromexico is a member of the SkyTeam alliance, you can also book award travel on some of its partner airlines, however, award availability on these will vary.

Option # 5: Look for awards travel on partner airlines; some of them may end up being cheaper than flights on Delta, and you may find better availability.

If you can get roughly equal value by redeeming points directly through Ultimate Rewards and not worry about award availability or a limited number of partners, why would you waste your energies on transferring them to an external loyalty program?

As you search for award availability with partners, you can reference the Oneworld and other partners» AA award charts to determine the number of AA miles you will need to book.

Until recently, Korean Air did not provide a way to search online for award availability on any of its partner airlines.

Option # 5: Look for awards travel on partner airlines; some of them may end up being cheaper than flights on Delta, and you may find better availability.

They don't let you book First Class awards with partners at all, they rarely have low - level award availability (and I think this might get worse after the recent devaluation), you can only redeem round trip flights (one - ways are coming in 2015 though), and in general their miles are much harder to use than those of other programs.

Lufthansa generally only releases award seats to partners within a week or so of departure, so you can book business class and change to first - class if availability opens up.

This means that LHW may make changes that affect, but are not limited to, travel partner affiliations, rules and procedures for the use of benefits and awards, benefit types, levels required for obtaining benefits and awards, continued availability of awards, blackout dates, room availability, and the terms of special offers.

They provide a good resource for looking up award availability on many carriers that are also partners of Alaska Airlines and American Airlines, and British Airways also runs a decent loyalty program, Executive Club, which may be of interest to people who live outside of the United Kingdom.

Despite the dramatic devaluation in terms of earning and redeeming miles in 2014, United MileagePlus remains one of the most valuable U.S. frequent flyer programs with the biggest number of airline partners and a generally good award availability.

Having the option to transfer points over to Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer is a nice bonus as Singapore Airlines has a habit of offering better award availability to its own rewards program members than it does to members of its airline partners» programs (United MileagePlus, Lufthansa Miles & More etc...)

(I didn't do too much searching, since I was on a mission to book my specific flight, but presumably, you'd have more luck searching all Avios award availability, through more of the partners — e.g. Aer Lingus, BA, and Iberia.)

Fortunately you can compare the award prices and availability of multiple partners before you move your ThankYou Rewards points to any of them.

And you don't want to just scan for any availability, you need to scan for the types of awards that you can book through alliance partners.

A lot of alliance partners don't allow you to search for award availability for other partners on their website and that's really annoying because that means you'll always have to call in to book and you're not sure what that airline is seeing in terms of award availability.

Because they all have a huge range of transfer partners and so when I need an award flight, I'm not limited to one program's abysmal availability.

The ability to get 2 cents per point on a wide variety of airline bookings without having to transfer points to partners and find award availability significantly increases the value of your Membership Rewards.

But here's the very important thing to know: Not all partners will show up on an airline's online award booking — and the Big Three have some of the worst availability of Saver (low) level awards of any airlines.

Since Alaska Airlines is not aligned with any alliance, they have a unique range of partners that cover most of the globe, and allow you to easily find award availability.

US Airways» award flight search engine, for example, only shows award availability for US Airways operated flights, and none of the partner flights.

Its a great thing to be aware and share the sweet spots on award charts but its really not that cut and dry IMHO For example Alaska is not a One World partner and while they certainly make some availability available to Alaska its a much smaller pool of inventory and frequently only available close to departure to book Added to that you can not mix any other One World partner on the itinerary making it not the sweet spot its made out to be when you have to book yet another award that would be included otherwise with a One World partner booking using Cathay

United.com shows award availability for most partners and it shows the taxes and fees very clearly for each portion of your flight.

Between those 3 search engines you should almost always be able to find award availability searching through dozens of partner airlines.

The two challenges are that they're a member of Skyteam, so their partners aren't as good and don't often offer as good award availability as some of their competitors, and also that you have to deal with the idiosyncrasies of Korean — rules like only redeeming your points for family members.

Overall, this partnership is good news because Virgin Atlantic is a transfer partner of American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest, so there are now more options to book Delta flights without having SkyMiles (though partners like Virgin Atlantic only get access to low - level awards, meaning availability can be slim on certain routes).

Here's my dilemma: I can be poised to check ANA for award availability on United or another Star Alliance partner 356 days in advance of the outbound leg — but if I want to use ANA miles to book a round trip award, don't I have to wait to book until the requisite number of days before the return leg, since ANA doesn't allow one ways?

There's also a bit of a learning curve for finding partner award availability, since it doesn't show up on the Korean Air website.

Nonetheless, the convenience of advance award availability on such stellar partners pushes my valuation slightly above the higher end of the range of the above examples: my valuation is 2 cents per American AAdvantage mile.

* You can also use Delta's website to search for availability but keep in mind that in order to book a Delta flight with either of the Ultimate Rewards Skyteam partners, there must be award space available at the saver level on Delta.

Partner award seat availability may be different for Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan members than for members of the partner's own loyalty / frequent flyer program.

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