Sentences with phrase «of the airline programs instead»

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Instead, it offers users the ability to transfer their rewards points to a number of different partner programs — including Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards ®, Marriott Rewards ®, and United MileagePlus ® to name a few.

Instead of joining an airline alliance, Eithad embarked on an aggressive airline investment program, creating Etihad Airways Partners.

If you are a frequent traveler, then the type of program you may prefer instead would be one that gives you airline miles for every dollar you spend on the card.

Instead of being required to choose just one loyalty program, you can use your rewards to book with any airline, hotel or rental car company.

Instead, it offers users the ability to transfer their rewards points to a number of different partner programs — including Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards ®, Marriott Rewards ®, and United MileagePlus ® to name a few.

Instead of using an airline mile program, with the Capital One ® Venture ® Rewards Credit Card you just pay for travel with your card, then use your Venture ® miles to get it reimbursed on your statement.

Instead of restricting the airlines and hotels you can book with miles, the Arrival program allows you to use them toward any travel expense.

United took more heat on its pet transport program the following day, when the airline accidentally shipped a dog to Japan instead of Kansas City, Mo..

But unfortunately, instead of looking for another airline frequent flier program that's going to reward us the most, it's a battle to find one that's going to screw us the least.

When paying for a ticket on an alliance member you can often credit your miles to another member airline, keeping your miles in one program, instead of ending up with lots of small mileage amounts spread across mileage programs.

Instead of restricting the airlines and hotels you can book with miles, the Arrival program allows you to use them toward any travel expense.

Using Elevate program points to redeem for flights on Hawaiian Airlines - operated flights presents an opportunity to use a set number of points instead: 20,000 Elevate points in economy and 50,000 in business for a round - trip ticket between San Francisco and Honolulu, for example.

Instead of getting 1 Starpoint for every dollar, which you use for award nights or transfer into airline miles, why not earn 2 «miles» with Barclay's program toward revenue flights without blackout dates?

Instead, PointsHound passes along part of their commission in the form of airline miles in one of their partner programs, including all four of the major US domestic airlines.

To be clear, if you direct BWI to award Miles instead of Points, you will not earn any Points for Eligible Stays or as otherwise provided herein; you will only earn Miles for the one Airline Program you have selected.

Whether you elect to earn Miles as your earning preference or decide instead to earn Points and later convert them into Miles, each Airline Program maintains its own rules, regulations, and program terms and conditions, all of which will apply to your use of anyProgram maintains its own rules, regulations, and program terms and conditions, all of which will apply to your use of anyprogram terms and conditions, all of which will apply to your use of any Miles.

Rather than earning Points for Eligible Stays or as otherwise provided herein, you can instead elect to earn airline miles («Miles») with any of our approved partner frequent flyer programs («Airline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline Pairline miles («Miles») with any of our approved partner frequent flyer programs («Airline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline programs («Airline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline PAirline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline PAirline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline PAirline Program.

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.

Just to find out later that you could have saved a quarter of those hard - earned miles if you would have just transferred those points to an airline program instead of booking directly through a credit card booking portal like Chase Sapphire Preferred's Ultimate Rewards.

Many frequent flyer programs award airline miles that can be used instead of cash to buy tickets, upgrades, and other perks.

Instead of focusing on one individual loyalty program, it offers multiple ways to redeem the points you earn, including transfers to several different airline and hotel partners.

Hotel and car rental partners are the same — instead of a few points with that company's loyalty program you can usually choose to receive airline miles instead.

Where miles & points are concerned, in case you weren't aware, most all airline and hotel rewards programs have their own online shopping portals too, where, instead of cash back, you can earn their specific rewards for purchases.

(Technically you're still earning points, but the Airline Direct Deposit program transfers them instantly instead of waiting for you to accumulate a larger block.

Many people say the best use of Starpoints — even better than redeeming them at Starwood hotels — is to transfer them to a variety of airline loyalty programs and use them for free flights instead.

I'd love to say that maybe other airlines will take a lesson from this and realize that it's okay to actually improve loyalty programs instead of gutting them and calling them «enhancements» as if we're all clueless children.

Competitors Hertz and Enterprise / National both have similar point rewards programs to be used instead of earning miles / points with partner airlines and hotel companies.

To me, it never made good business sense for airlines to base programs on miles flown instead of dollars spent.

Some cards simply provide you with points that act as a travel credit instead of giving you miles and points that will be used with an airline or hotel program.

Southwest Airlines is different than the other award programs as its award prices are not based on an award chart, but instead are tied to the cash price of the tickets.

This puts a fixed value on UR points instead of having a flexible model like airline loyalty programs

It certainly has its pros (no foreign transaction fee, more 5 % eligible online retailers, excellent customer service) and its cons (not as widely accepted, especially internationally; can't transfer cash back to airline programs; 5 % back on gas for one quarter instead of two), but there's no reason not to get both.

While Citi ThankYou Rewards hasn't yet offered transfer bonuses to its airline partners, the program offered a 33 % transfer bonus to Hilton HHonors through January 8, 2015, so instead of the normal 1:1.5 ratio, you got 2 Hilton points for every 1 Citi point you transfer.

And members who have set airline miles instead of Choice Privileges as their program earning preference are ineligible.

«Instead of bringing in new customers, one effect of these programs is that preexisting customers come to salespeople and say, «I'm entitled to a discount or airline miles.»»