This works on any class of travel for one specified airline of your choice, or business or
first class flights on any airline.
In all honesty, most of us wouldn't be paying the outrageous asking prices for business and
first class flights in the above examples.
Not to say that the service wasn't great, but it wasn't the same as other
First Class flights where I was the only passenger, or one of only 2 parties.
Award travel enthusiasts often focus on
earning first class flights and five - star hotels, but sometimes the best value can be found further down on the award chart.
Choose the right credit cards, hit your spending limits and use it in the right places and you will always have points to redeem
free first class flights.
This booking includes
First Class flights from US - Dubai, a stopover in Dubai as long as you'd like, and another flight Dubai - Paris.
With your Ultimate Rewards points, you can easily transfer your miles to United MileagePlus to
book first class flights with Lufthansa.
In the Middle East and Asia, you can use your miles for luxurious
first class flights with Emirates, Korean Air and Cathay Pacific, and Alaska can even get you to Australia with partner Qantas and the Pacific Islands via Fiji Airways.
Sure, you pay for that
Emirates First Class flight in cash because it costs $ 30K, but use the money you made from your business to buy Alaska Airlines miles on the «black market» (yes, points / miles brokers exist) or even directly from Alaska Airlines at 2 cents each.
I reviewed my Cathay
Pacific First Class flight from JFK - YVR recently, and this is the hotel I stayed at during my overnight layover.
If you're fairly new to the miles and points game, you've no doubt heard of some of the aspiration flight experiences such as Etihad's «Apartment» and Singapore Airlines» «First Suites» — but what you may not be aware of is the overall decline
of First Class flights for long haul flights.
Not all travel rewards are created equal; some programs (such as Chase Ultimate Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest) offer incredible value for premium redemptions
like first class flights and hotel suites.
For example, that one -
way first class flight from New York to Singapore had roughly $ 229 in airline fuel and insurance surcharges attached to the award ticket.
After our Korean Air
A380 first class flight from LAX to ICN, we spent a couple of hours at the new Korean Air First Class lounge at ICN.
This year I plan on directing my paid travel to
Delta first class flights when possible, and American economy flights otherwise, in order to maximize my chances of renewing medium - or high - level Alaska Airlines status.
The timing of the invite perfectly coincided with TAM's
last first class flights (the airline discontinued First Class as of November 1st), therefore I booked my award trip using US Airways miles for 120,000 miles in First class and routed myself from Mexico City to Kuala Lumpur via Miami, Sao Paulo and Paris.
However, without having to use any additional miles, $ 1,000 is still a pretty good price to pay for a round -
trip first class flight on British Airways!
Or, if you have your heart set on
luxurious First Class flights with American Airlines» partners like Etihad, you can earn more American Airlines miles the Citi AAdvantage Platinum card or Citi AAdvantage Executive card.
Enjoying first class flights and high end hotels is great but if you're spending the same or more time (and time = money) than you would working and just booking what you like then it may not be worth it.
That made it one of the most valuable ways to use our points...
many first class flights cost you the same amount for half or a third of the flight time and a lesser experience!
I decided I'd figure out my return at a much later time (I ended up taking a one - day side - trip into the Southeast Asia region and then redeemed a return on 1 Thai A380 and 2 Lufthansa
new First Class flights using 70,000 United miles before they severely devalued that award).
If you pay for Business or
First Class flights then you can still rack up a lot of miles from flying but those of us flying at the back are seeing a far lower rate of return than ever before — Delta and United (and soon American) base the number of miles they award travelers on the cost of the ticket purchased (less taxes) so the cheaper ticket you by the fewer miles you'll earn.
Mileage upgrade: A confirmed upgrade to a cash ticket using miles that is typically accompanied by an additional cash payment but still offers a significant discount on purchasing a business or
first class flight outright.
You'll end up paying many more miles to earn business and
first class flights through Barclaycard Arrival than with typical airline or transfer programs.
The treats can be found at the shop in New York and ordered from Bantam Bagels» website, but also on QVC, in select Starbucks locations, Refresh & Co., Delta
first class flights out of LaGuardia Airport and gift cards are available in Staples and at Gift Card Mall.
Even if Liu wanted to use his AmEx points to pay for flights, a less efficient use of them, he could still redeem those points for hundreds of
first class flights anywhere in the world.