The phrase
"paid flights" means flights that require payment, or tickets that you need to buy in order to travel on an airplane.
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Sad to see how far the programs have cut the miles earned
on paid flights, isn't it?
It also provides more flexibility because you don't have to find award space, you can just
book paid flights and still get solid value for your points.
This is good if you take a lot
of paid flights together and you want to get credit for all purchased flights.
We accept bank transfer, credit card, internet banking, over the counter and debit card to
pay your flight tickets.
My three
upcoming paid flights are all booked with discounted gift cards or through a 3rd party ticket broker.
I still think the card is worth holding onto for some people if you also
buy paid flights.
Award miles can be used to book award flights and for upgrades
on paid flights.
I'd always suggest using your miles before booking
paid flights with Worldpoints — but if you're stuck, or have a very specific flight you'd like to take, try a Worldpoints Premium Air Reward booking.
Additionally, to be eligible to qualify for Premier Silver status, you must fly a minimum of four
paid flight segments on flights operated by United and / or United Express during a calendar year, excluding Basic Economy (N) fares.
Time from Search to Landing in US (Award): 7 hours, 45 minutes Award Flight Cost: 35,000 AAdvantage Miles + $ 165.70 Time from Search to Landing in US (Paid): 7 hours, 45 minutes
Paid Flight Cost: $ 1,088.70 Savings on Flight: $ 923.00
Members will continue to earn Companion Pass benefits through
paid flights flown on Southwest, points earned through spend with Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards credit cards, and base points earned through transactions with Rapid Rewards partners.
-LSB-...] choose an airline for your $ 200 annual airline fee statement credit, you'll also be able to redeem Membership Rewards for 2 cents per point
toward paid flights -LSB-...]
Members will continue to earn toward Companion Pass benefits
through paid flights flown on Southwest, Points earned through spend with Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards credit cards, and base points earned through transactions with Rapid Rewards partners.
The FlexPerks card is a great backup for booking
paid flights when either the cost or availability of awards prevents you from using traditional airline miles.
While we don't redeem British Airways Avios as often as other miles, they do come in handy for some short nonstop award redemptions that would otherwise be more expensive with AAdvantage miles or
as paid flights.
Soon, everyone on the plane realizes they all have known this Gabriel Pasternak and the mysterious nature of this all -
expenses paid flight becomes disturbingly clear.
However, you can add your frequent flyer number to your FlexPerks flight awards and receive elite qualification credit from the airline, just like a
regular paid flight.
Time from Search to Landing in US (Award): 96 hours, 35 minutes Award Flight Cost: 30,000 United Miles + $ 138.70 Time from Search to Landing in US (Paid): 46 hours, 25
minutes Paid Flight Cost: $ 1,284.17 Savings on Flight: $ 1,145.47
It doesn't offer miles - plus - cash awards or free stopovers, and it requires at least one
paid flight in the last 24 months as a condition for booking an award.
In an even more annoying effort to nail down the real TBV one gets on an award reservation vs a
cash paid flight, don't you have to factor in at least 6 points you would earn on a base cash fare booked on their website?
Time from Search to Landing in US (Award): 25 hours Award Flight Cost: 40,000 United Miles + $ 128.90 Time from Search to Landing in US (Paid): 25
hours Paid Flight Cost: $ 978.40 Savings on Flight: $ 849.50
In addition to the above, the airline is requiring that members fly a minimum of four
paid flights operated by United, United Express, or Copa Airlines to qualify for any Premier status.
For
paid flights make sure you use a credit card that will give you the most points, such as the JetBlue Plus Card (6x on JetBlue purchases), Amex Platinum (5x on airfare) or Chase Sapphire Reserve (3x on travel).
You must
pay flight related taxes, fees and charges relating to the complimentary reward flight.»
This is enough to earn Silver status, which requires 25,000 MQMs, without taking a
single paid flight.
I'm close to the end of the year — and unless I decide to go somewhere for Christmas (and can't use miles) it seems like I'll clock in 0 total miles
from paid flights this year.
Double miles offer is valid only on
qualifying paid flights between Dallas (DFW), New York - Kennedy (JFK), San Francisco (SFO), or Vancouver, BC (YVR) and Sydney (SYD), and between Los Angeles (LAX) and Brisbane (BNE), Melbourne (MEL), or Sydney (SYD) from November 1, 2017, through May 31, 2018.
That would make the rewards earned worth up to 9.765 % back (4.5 points per dollar x 2.17 cents per point)
towards paid flights on your selected airline or business or first class on any airline.
To put this post in context, we are not elites in ANY airline frequent flyer program (since we fly very
few paid flights) or hotel loyalty program (since we prefer luxury hotels — more on this below), so our miles and points earning is NOT from employer - reimbursed flights or hotels.
At the time,
only paid flights were available, and no award space was released at all to Cathay's oneworld partners, such as American AAdvantage and British Airways Avios.
They're also All (coincidentally) destinations / itineraries that you can't do with united miles (although on the one itinerary RUN is the sticking point and that you can mostly do with one additional
short paid flight.)
The Denver house was our first home and right after we got married boutght the house, got his green card the economy went to crap and I left my
well paying flight nurse job to follow his dream job in Asia.
If you're booking
paid flights with Ultimate Rewards points you'll need to use their internal search engine, and the same is true of US Bank Flexpoints.