Sentences with phrase «of premium cabin awards»

-LSB-...] Flying Blue program is bumping up the cost of premium cabin awards in June, and in fact North America — Europe goes from 100,000 miles to 125,000 miles roundtrip just -LSB-...]

Then in April of this year they made more changes increasing the cost of premium cabin awards further.

In November I valued US Airways miles at 1.7 cents each, so much like the above the decrease in value accounts for the lack of premium cabin award space in advance, in particular on Lufthansa.

Not exact matches

Valuation: The new British Airways award chart went into effect at the end of April, dramatically increasing the mileage requirements for most premium cabin redemptions, particularly on long - haul flights.

Because Spirit only offers one class of service and award travel only covers your base fare, redeeming miles for a premium cabin is not an option.

JetBlue, known for its award winning service, 10 ″ HDTV screens, high speed in - flight internet, and free snacks, is becoming more popular as they introduce new routes, expand their fantastic Mint Class premium cabin, and more frequent flyers become aware of...

With business class flights to the Caribbean and northern South America, United's award regions allow you to book premium cabins in a variety of ways.

If you have a family of three or more people, it can be REALLY hard to find award inventory to book a big trip, especially when it comes to premium cabins.

One of the most affordable premium cabin awards is to visit Europe for just 115,000 miles in business class.

In addition, upgrade availability is often in greater supply than low - level award availability, meaning you have a better chance of being able to work your way into a premium cabin in the first place.

If you live on one of the coasts, booking a transcontinental award flight in a premium cabin is a great way to use MileagePlus miles.

Delta Air Lines devalued their partner awards overnight without notice, Virgin Atlantic devalued their award chart for flights on Delta, and Etihad cut one of their coolest perks for premium cabin passengers: chauffeur service.

Spencer has put that knowledge to use by booking some of the top premium cabin award flights in the sky.

Purchasing these points at a discount is a great way to boost your stock of airline miles (by up to 35,000 miles) if you're looking to book a huge award in a premium airline cabin and are still short.

Keep in mind, that while the awards may not be particularly cheap, Cathay Pacific has one of the nicest premium cabin products in the world so quality makes up for quantity to an extent here.

There are four Promo Awards for travel between Europe and the Caribbean this time... but only two are for premium cabin travel (which is where most of the value is to be found):

It can be very difficult to find premium cabin award travel on many of these airlines.

United explains: «We're increasing miles required in these markets for the first time in several years to account for the increased cost of providing transportation, particularly in the premium cabin and particularly on the MileagePlus partner carriers... We faced a decision other airlines have faced — to either increase the number of miles required for partner awards or to eliminate them altogether.»

To use it, you just input your route, choose one - way or roundtrip, the cabin you want to fly in (economy, premium economy, business, or first), whether you're willing to make a stop or not, the type of award (peak or off - peak), and which frequent flyer program (the 20 airlines are listed below) or credit card (Amex Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Points, and / or Starwood Preferred Guest) you want to use and search.

There's no getting away from it, American Airlines is incredibly stingy with its premium cabin award inventory and the lack of award space on American Airlines has been a regular grip with frequent flyers for years.

Whatever the reasons, it now looks like South America is starting to join the award party with premium cabin award availability opening up on a number of routes out of Miami.

I expect United to be quite tight with premium cabin award availability on this flight until they get a better idea of what load factors are going to be like....

While the number of miles needed for a Business Class redemption isn't exactly low (you're better off trying to get to / from Europe on United's own aircraft which will only cost 115,000 for roundtrip Business Class), the taxes for a premium cabin award are low for a European route.

Normally the best use of frequent flyer miles is for international premium cabin awards because these are expensive tickets if you pay with cash but not very expensive if you pay with miles.

It appears to be a commonly held belief that while Delta decimates the value of SkyMiles on a quarterly basis and while American Airlines stubbornly refuses to make premium cabin saver awards available, award availability via United is quite good.

Waitlisting for travel awards is permitted in premium cabins on flights operated by United, and will be automatically confirmed, if the waitlisted cabin is available, based on the status of the account holder.

And onboard both airlines, you'll experience intuitive, personal service, award winning entertainment, innovative products and stylish comfort in some of the best premium cabins in the sky.

Under this type of program, Cathay would only award status - earning points to travellers who purchase premium cabin seats or the most expensive economy class seats (which are often just as expensive as the cheapest premium cabin seats).

With Ft. Lauderdale's proximity to Miami and most other things South Florida offers this route is a nice bonus for Avios collectors — we suddenly have a lot more premium cabin space flying in / out of the Miami metropolitan area and that should be good for fares and award availability (hopefully!)

I can almost always get 2 cents of value for my United MileagePlus miles using them for premium cabin international awards.

Both loyalty currencies cost around the same in the promotions but with MileagePlus miles you can avoid paying fuel surcharges when using them on United and a number of other airlines and, on top of that, you can purchase long - haul premium cabin awards on United for fewer miles than you can on British Airways.

I already discussed what I thought would be a good use of AAdvantage Miles during the Cyber Monday promotion — premium cabin awards on airlines whose rewards are going to rocket in cost when the devaluation kicks in.

Kenya Airways and KLM are both part of the Flying Blue program and offer greater award availability, particularly in premium cabins, to their own mileage members.

That award chart is particularly valuable for premium cabin redemptions, since business class and first class awards cost 2 and 3 times the cost of economy, respectively, instead of the 3 and 4 times charged on the standard Executive Club award chart.

The reason why a lot of Miles & Points enthusiast get excited about Korean Air is because the airline manages to combine an excellent premium cabin product with fantastic award availability.

While one of the award charts did see a major valuation last year — that of Emirates — there are still multiple partner award charts which offer international premium cabin awards for much less than the number of miles that would be required by booking directly with the airlines» own award programs.

Those aren't terrible prices to pay for premium cabins on the likes of JAL or Cathay Pacific but, once again there's no guarantee you'll find award availability on dates where cash fares are higher than that cost.

American Airlines AAdvantage miles are very hard to use economically thanks to the dearth of premium cabin SAAver awards, United Miles are ok but 100,000 won't get you a roundtrip Business Class award to any major long - haul destination (if you're heading east or west) while 100,000 Alaska Miles will get you some nice roundtrip redemptions on Cathay Pacific and even American (subject to award availability).

I work hard to earn all the miles I do so I will go out of my way to avoid using my miles on airlines I consider to offer an inferior premium cabin product and airlines that impose high surcharges on awards — like British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.

United Airlines may not have many cabins that one would call aspirational (The latest Polaris seats on the 777 - 300ER are nice but there's hardly any of them in service) but it offers far better award availability than American Airlines and requires considerably fewer miles for premium cabin awards than Delta — that makes it a valuable transfer option to have.

To clarify, I mean if you're paying cash (by cash I mean hopefully using a credit card that gets travel awards) for your economy ticket, you may be able pay a similar amount of cash to buy points / miles and then use those points / miles to book premium cabin travel.

It raised the amount of miles you need for most international awards, especially in the premium cabins, and introduced their new EveryDay awards (variable even higher level awards than the old Standard level).

Delta is really working hard to get SkyMiles members to use miles on things like premium drinks and, in a new test, paying for airline fees instead of redeeming them for premium cabin awards (which cost the airline much more).

Korean is known for having some of the best premium - cabin award availability, although it isn't always easy to book.

It raised the amount of miles you need for most international awards, especially in the premium cabins, and introduced their new EveryDay awards (variable even higher level awards than...

Effective April 28, British Airways has devalued their award chart for premium cabin awards (Premium Economy, Business and First class awards) Only positive change in this devaluation is the introduction of off - peak awards on British Airways awards (not applicable for partner awards like Cathay Pacific).

But it's not nearly enough to just allocate them some kind of uniform valuation, as some miles may be very valuable for a given type of redemption (e.g. Avios for short - haul economy awards) and quite a poor value for other types of redemptions (for Avios, ultra long - haul in a premium cabin with high mileage cost and often high fuel surcharges).

Though United has majorly devalued its award chart, the fact that it doesn't charge or pass on fuel surcharges makes MileagePlus miles one of the best ways to book many highly desirable airlines and premium cabins that would otherwise require at least $ 500 in fees.

Travelling in premium cabins is a dream for most of us, but it can be reality if you can redeem frequent flyer miles for a premium cabin award seat.

Korean Air offers an excellent product, reasonable prices and a lot of availability, with anywhere from two to four premium cabin award seats on many flights.