So for only 20,000 miles each way, you can fly from Istanbul to Abu Dhabi or Dubai on Turkish Airlines or connect in Cairo for a free stopover in Egypt
on a roundtrip award.
It's also interesting that if you are someone who uses LifeMiles to travel to Central America or Colombia, you can earn a 50 % discount
on a roundtrip award ticket from the United States if you spend $ 12,000 in a calendar year, with the opportunity for another award discount after $ 24,000 spending.
The taxes
on your roundtrip award flight using Avios on Aer Lingus to Dublin will only be around $ 150, while flights routed from Heathrow cost nearly twice as much in fees.
United Airlines and All Nippon Airways (ANA) each allow a stopover on round - trip bookings, while Japan Airlines allows up to 3 stopovers
on a roundtrip award ticket.
United had relatively friendly award routing rules that allowed one stopover and two open jaws
on roundtrip award tickets.Those rules are gone now though and have been replaced by the «Excursionist Perk,» which is essentially a free segment on an international itinerary.
Aeroplan (Air Canada's program) allows two stopovers or one stopover and one open jaw
on a roundtrip award ticket.
I was always told by United that
on a roundtrip award flt, that once you start the outbound you can not change the return.
Flying Blue also allows a stopover and open jaw routing
on roundtrip awards, so even if you have to pay fuel surcharges, you may be able to get well more than the standard 1 cent per point or less that Citi gives for ThankYou point redemptions.
On any roundtrip award with Singapore miles, you get one free stopover and up to three more for $ 100 each.
Not exact matches
> Value: 25,000 miles is enough for a
roundtrip Economy Class
award less than 1,201 miles each way
on Cathay or partners like American Airlines.
Return
on Award Flights Redemption: ~ 1.5 - 3 % Roundtrip award example: New York, NY to Miami, FL (LGA - MIA / MIA - DCA - LGA) for Fri 2/21 - Mon 2/24: $ 384 / 25,000 miles = 1.5 % One - way Reduced Miles discount example: Seattle to Miami on 2/7: $ 312 / 10,000 discounted miles and dollars spent = 3.1 % return on charged spending, ex
Award Flights Redemption: ~ 1.5 - 3 %
Roundtrip award example: New York, NY to Miami, FL (LGA - MIA / MIA - DCA - LGA) for Fri 2/21 - Mon 2/24: $ 384 / 25,000 miles = 1.5 % One - way Reduced Miles discount example: Seattle to Miami on 2/7: $ 312 / 10,000 discounted miles and dollars spent = 3.1 % return on charged spending, ex
award example: New York, NY to Miami, FL (LGA - MIA / MIA - DCA - LGA) for Fri 2/21 - Mon 2/24: $ 384 / 25,000 miles = 1.5 % One - way Reduced Miles discount example: Seattle to Miami
on 2/7: $ 312 / 10,000 discounted miles and dollars spent = 3.1 % return
on charged spending, ex fees
On a
roundtrip saver
award, you can add one stopover and one open jaw.
It's actually quite easy to rack up enough miles for a
roundtrip award flight from the US to Europe
on American, Delta or United, even if you don't fly very often.
It costs 25K miles + booking fees and taxes to fly
on a
roundtrip (with stopovers)
award flight.
And because British Airways has an
award redemption chart that's organized by distance flown instead of region, you'll only to cash in 25,000 British Airways miles
on a
roundtrip ticket from Los Angeles to Honolulu instead of the 45,000 miles American requires for that same flight.
It does have a restriction
on economy class
awards, so that could be as much as 20,000 LifeMiles discount
on a
roundtrip economy class ticket to Colombia, or 18,000 miles to Central America.
For example,
on a
roundtrip economy
award for two passengers between New York City and Heathrow, passengers redeeming a Travel Together Ticket would pay $ 999 in order to spend 28,571 Avios instead of 120,000 Skymiles.
For example,
roundtrip business class
awards on Cathay Pacific from the U.S. to Asia cost just 100,000 miles, whereas similar flights would cost 140,000 to 180,000 miles
on most competitors.
Unfortunately, in November 2017, Japan Airlines began assessing cash surcharges
on awards as high as $ 1,600 for a US to Dubai
roundtrip.
If you are going to be doing two very long
roundtrips (coast - to - coast) that push you into the fifth class of the distance chart, you are likely going to be better off buying two distinct
roundtrip awards from United / Aeroplan etc, which are priced based
on the zone you fly in.
A business class ticket
on Cathay Pacific between Los Angeles and Hong Kong falls into Asia Miles
award Zone D (5,000 to 7,500 miles) and costs 120,000 miles per
roundtrip.
However, we can see
on the calendar at the top that SuperSaver
awards are available for the next three days since they all price out at 40,000 - miles
roundtrip.
The worst way to use Emirates
awards is
on routes you wouldn't want to use Emirates for in the first place: bad routing mixed with high prices, such as North America to Australia for 150,000 miles
roundtrip in economy, or eastern North America to western North America for 155,000 miles
roundtrip in economy.
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roundtrip scheduled shared transfer to Downtown Pattaya per person per booking, spa credit - THB 500 per room or suite, late check out upon request (subject to availability), 10 % discount
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award - winning restaurants (excluding buffets), priority for room upgrade to next room category (subject to availability), be part of special monthly lucky draw to win exciting prizes and have the option to personalize your stay with unique optional extras
From a positive point of view those with foreign - based MileagePlus accounts (or at least those with UK MileagePlus accounts) can now buy enough miles for two
roundtrip Business Class
awards between Europe and the US
on United operated flights (115,000 miles each).
Per the American Airlines oneworld
award chard, a
roundtrip Business Class fare
on any of these three routes will cost 150,000 miles + taxes (which will be low)
Travellers flying exclusively with Singapore can include one stopover
on roundtrip saver
awards.
If you assume that $ 2,500 is a fair price for a Lufthansa Business Class
roundtrip ticket then, allowing for the $ 620 in fees you have to pay
on the
award, 105, ooo miles is getting you $ 1,880 of value.
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.
But when you consider that American Airlines charges 180,000 miles
roundtrip for first class
awards on Etihad, it's not the best idea to use Alitalia miles for these coveted
awards.
See our
award chart to find out how many miles you'll need to fly one way or
roundtrip, depending
on class of service and region of travel.
All
awards will be priced
on a one - way basis, and two or more one - way
awards can be combined to form
roundtrip or multi-city itineraries.
On specific number of paid qualifying
roundtrip flights (as outlined in the offer) members can earn 5,000 bonus
award miles, 10,000 bonus
award miles or up to a maximum of 25,000 bonus
award miles.
Now you can use that knowledge to enter for a chance to win two
roundtrip tickets to South Africa
on award - winning South African Airways, from any of the U.S. cities that SAA serves.
A
roundtrip Qatar Airways Business Class
award from the US to the Middle East now requires 140,000 miles ($ 2,674 in this promotion) and, while wouldn't be too bad if this was a cash fare, once you take into account the lost earnings (you don't earn miles
on award travel) this isn't in any way cheap.
Here is a chart of some randomly chosen British Airways routes from London together with the number of Avios and AAdvantage Miles required for a
roundtrip Business Class
award ticket
on each route:
Many
award tickets, such as flights to Europe, are
on par with those of other competing airlines, with economy tickets starting at 60,000 miles
roundtrip plus taxes and fees.
If you fly United, that's enough for a
roundtrip business class ticket from North America to Europe
on a Saver
Award and enough for two round trips from North America to Europe in economy
on a Saver
Award.
30,000 miles for Economy Class
roundtrip could be a good use of miles too... although it will depend
on how large the taxes and fees are that the airline adds to the cost of the
award.
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).
The Business Class deals aren't that impressive as, if you double up the costs to get the price for a
roundtrip, the final cost of the
awards isn't too dissimilar to a lot of Business Class cash fares offered by airlines when the sales are
on — and with cash fares you often have a greater choice of dates and you earn miles as well.
Korean Air is also a great option for getting to Asia and if you can find Business Class
awards on Qantas then $ 2,167 + taxes for a
roundtrip fare to Australia is a very good deal.
My family's favorite vacation destination is Hawaii, and via their own version of a «Cyber Monday» offering, United is making it 20 % cheaper to get there
on miles if you book a
roundtrip economy saver
award by December 8th and travel between January 7 — March 10, 2018.
Tickets
on Delta Airines are pricey; a business class
award seat to Europe, for example, will cost you 125,000 miles per
roundtrip.
United is offering a special «20 % discount
on roundtrip Saver
Awards» to select cities in Europe, which equates to 48,000 miles.
A
roundtrip award on Emirates first class between JFK and Milan (MPX) will require 217,500 miles plus ~ $ 1,440 in fees.
A
roundtrip in business / first
on a domestic trip may run you 75,000 miles, although with Delta's dynamic
award pricing many
awards may be much higher.
You can book one - way
award flights for half the cost of
roundtrip tickets, pay for up to 60 percent of a ticket with cash and mix cabins
on award itineraries.
All three of the major U.S. airlines» frequent flyer programs — American Airlines AAdvantage, United MileagePlus and Delta SkyMiles — are based
on one - way
award tickets, so normally you can buy two one - way tickets or a
roundtrip to your destination for the same price.
Make the most of this winter by enjoying a winter getaway with a 20 % discount
on roundtrip Saver
Awards in United Economy.