Sentences with phrase «on award redemptions like»

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Here's a benefit exclusive to business owners like you, a 35 percent point redemption bonus on air travel when you an award flight through AmexTravel.com making your points worth 1.35 cents each (1000 points = $ 135).

Like other programs, someone has to be designated as the Primary Member of the account and is the one who handles award redemptions on behalf of everyone else in the household.

The loss of a cherished redemption on Thai Airways certainly hurts for those who like to get creative with their trips abroad, but United's changes to award rates to / from the U.S. were not too onerous.

If BA starts linking the cost of flights to the number of Avios needed and doesn't keep any kind of standard award in place the days of great redemptions on routes like NYC — Boston are over.

I'd rather store them elsewhere where I can get better value on my redemptions — or even earn points with a transferable currency like Citi, Chase, or American Express» reward programs, so I can transfer them to any carrier where I can get a fantastic first or business class award.

Aeroplan is great because you can book one way awards, avoid fuel surcharges on airlines like United and Singapore Airlines, they have one of the best search engines (although it can be a bit slow), and a lot of their redemption rates for business class are pretty reasonable.

However, if you would like to get the same redemptions on American and use its old award chart levels, you still can.

But even if you don't want to go with the hassle of finding award space on a plane, there are still plenty of gift card and cash - like redemption opportunities available that provide essentially a full rebate for those hotel nights.

Another awesome redemption strategy for those who do not like to mattress run while on vacation is SPG's 5th night free award.

Though you'll see a somewhat similar approach with some domestic carriers, like Virgin America and Jet Blue, who charge their frequent flyers a redemption rate based on the current cost of the ticket, most carriers break out their award redemptions into zones.

Also, if you're interested in business class or first class award redemptions, you're going to have to spend much, much more on your Capital One Venture card than on a card like the Chase Sapphire Preferred to earn anywhere near the miles needed for those redemptions.

To start with, you can take advantage of some of the redemptions noted above, like British Airways short - haul awards, Flying Blue to Hawaii or the Caribbean, transatlantic flights on Virgin Atlantic and Singapore Airlines first suites.

Many people didn't like doing this because there are no one - way redemptions available and SKYPASS requires you to jump through a lot of hoops to complete bookings and places restrictions on who you can redeem award tickets for (limits to family members, etc.).

I like Alaska's award chart for partner redemptions, the upgrades on award tickets, and the generous stopover rules.

I recall the upgrade to a pool suite was something like an extra 2,000 points or $ 100 a night on top of what's already an expensive award redemption.

Marriott has some terrific award redemptions on both the high end and the low end of the spectrum, and the program regularly offers promotions that can be quite lucrative (like the Fall 2015 MegaBonus offer).

The challenge with good award redemptions is that at the end of the day, like most other commodities, the price is based on supply and demand.

Some of the partners Alaska has added lately, like Hainan and Icelandair, have come with carrier imposed surcharges on award redemptions.

In practice these are fairly blunt tools that tell me «1 cent a point for American miles is a really good deal» but that I'm not going to spend 2 cents unless there's a very specific scenario — like a few points at the margin to top off an account for an award I've put on hold — where it makes sense (and in that scenario, my valuation of each point is higher since they're helping me to save with a real redemption).

Booking awards: Miles & More basics are laid out in this post, but the key things to keep in mind are that you can only have two stopovers and two open jaws on round - trip awards, that you can score deals like 30,000 - mile economy awards between select cities in the US and Europe, and that its award chart is not the best deal overall, but there are some interesting redemptions like North America to Hawaii for 40,000 miles round - trip in economy, domestic business - and first - class awards for 35,000 / 50,000 miles respectively, and business class to Central and Southeast Asia as well as Australia / New Zealand for 135,000 miles.