The full table of
partner award chart changes is displayed below, with increased prices highlighted.
I don't know if the 50 % discounts count
for partner award tickets but my guess would be that they do.
With a bit of searching and knowledge
of partner award charts, it is common to achieve redemption values of 3 - 4 cents per point.
This is easy to do as many airlines will not even
show partner award seats on their website, making you call to find and book these seats.
When it comes to booking
partner awards over the phone, the process can be quite painful sometimes.
The price to book
partner awards through Virgin is typically comparable to booking through the partner's own program.
The rest of the time, including for all
other partner awards, you should expect to pay for peak awards.
This is easy to do as many airlines will not even show
partner award seats on their website, making you call to find and book these seats.
Considering BA often has great last - minute
partner award redemption availability and doesn't charge last - minute booking fees either, you could be looking at huge savings on this route.
The key details to watch are
hotel partner awards are priced, to the extent that airlines are still able to purchase those at a deep discount.
As
for partner awards, changes to flights, dates, routes or carriers will cost you just $ 20.
Round - the - world awards are actually cheaper than
partner awards in some circumstances.
While the overall changes are negative, the ability to search and book
partner awards online will be nice.
Facing History and
partners awarded over $ 25,000 in scholarships and awards to this year's essay winners.
It still errors out from time to time with me, but it's always convenient when you search and
book partner awards online.
United recently implemented new changes to its award charts, where certain Star
Alliance partner awards priced at a higher level than awards on United Airlines.
United already had astronomical first class
partner award prices for most of the more distant regions, this only exacerbates their uncompetitive pricing in this area.
Since you can only have
partner awards at level 1 prices, if you book Delta at anything other than level 1 you pay extra for the connection on a partner airline.
Asiana is a Star Alliance carrier, and should have access to Star Alliance
partner award space, which you can generally search for on the websites of United or Air Canada.
Since Delta stopped publishing an award chart and raised prices
on partner award flights, it can be a challenge to know if you're getting maximum value for your Delta SkyMiles.
I've heard mixed - reviews about what it's like to deal with booking
partner awards with Etihad.
In my experience, customer service agents are not very good at searching
partner award availability so you want to rely on your own searches for this to make the process as smooth as painless as possible.
Fortunately, in December 2016 Korean joined the 21st century, so now we can book a
Skyteam partners award ticket online.
Virgin Atlantic flying club miles can be redeemed for
many partners awards including Singapore Airlines, Jet Airways, Delta, Virgin America etc..
Please refer to the American
Airlines partner award chart for the specific mileage requirements based on your destination.
As a SkyTeam member, you could try to get creative and
use partner awards, but that's not going to be applicable or worth the hassle to most people.
On the flip side, Asiana passes along fuel surcharges on
most partner award flights, while United generally doesn't.
Using the example above, where we found that the British Airways award ended up costing about the same as the United
partner award when we value Ultimate Rewards points at 2.2 cents each, now when we book a companion ticket for an additional $ 931 we're saving not 100,000 Ultimate Rewards points, but 140,000.
Only positive change in this devaluation is the introduction of off - peak awards on British Airways awards (not applicable for
partner awards like Cathay Pacific).
It seems like most US airlines from United (especially since the co merger) to Delta website are incompetent, especially when it comes to
finding partner award space.
Hot Tip: Save time searching for
partner awards by checking websites of Emirates partner airlines.
For example, Southwest and United are exclusive transfer partners to this program, and others like Korean and British Airways
offer partner awards with Delta and American Airlines respectively.
And with the recent Krisflyer devaluation, those seeking to jump ship to Cathay might be interested in knowing what sort of
Oneworld partner awards they can look forward to redeeming.
According to the US
Airways partner award chart, a round - trip from North America to the South Pacific will cost:
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