Singapore Airlines
opens their award chart 350 days out.
Not exact matches
One of the many highlights of this
award chart is that it allows for up to 5 stopovers, 2 airport transfers, and 2
open - jaws at the origin, along your route, or at the destination.
The Air Canada Aeroplan
award chart is not exactly generous, but it has a great stopover policy for intercontinental travel — up to two stopovers for a round - trip flight with one
open jaw thrown in for good measure.
However, Asiana has an excellent Star Alliance
award chart, which
opens us a wide of range of partners on which to fly.
Some of the best include the following: United Airlines, which
opens up access to the huge Star Alliance network of carriers; British Airways, offering great value on short - haul nonstop flights due to their distance - based
award chart; Korean Airlines, with amazing
award availability in their first class cabins; and Hyatt, which is widely recognized as offering some of the highest value point redemption opportunities of any hotel chain.
Since Singapore Airlines adjusted their
award chart a week ago, they have started to
open up saver
award space for travel in their new first class.
I'm beginning to doubt Club Carlson will meet it's goals of November / December 2013
opening dates, but let's keep our fingers crossed that we'll have a chance to redeem our points before Club Carlson does like Hilton and completely obliterates its
award chart.
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.