Similar to the way free one ways work on United award bookings, Singapore Air allows one free stopover
per round trip award and in addition, up to 3 additional stopovers for $ 100 each.
Not exact matches
Earn 25,000 American Airlines AAdvantage ® bonus miles after $ 750 spent on purchases within the first 3 months, that's enough for a
round trip domestic MileSAAver ®
award (plus government fees of $ 5.60
per one - way
trip).
These Reduced Mileage
Awards can save you up to 7,500 miles
per person on
round -
trip tickets purchased at the saver level.
For this amount of
award miles, Mr. Kennedy can easily redeem domestic travel at the typical MilesAAver rate of 25,000 points
round -
trip (~ $ 0.012
per mile for a $ 300
round -
trip flight).
Passengers who hold a Hawaiian Airlines ® World Elite MasterCard ® are eligible for a discount on
award flights and can save 5,000 miles
per round -
trip between North America and Hawaii, meaning a SuperSaver
award can be booked for just 35,000 miles.
As
per award chart, a
round -
trip ticket from New York City to Honolulu costs 35,000 Elevate points in economy and 80,000 points in business class.
At this point, your two main options to fly to the World Cup using miles are purchasing a flight with cash starting at about $ 800 to $ 1,000
per round trip in economy, and then use points from a card such as the Barclaycard Arrival World Elite Mastercard to offset the charge, or search for
award flights that get you close to Russia.
You can fly on Star Alliance partner Austrian by booking with a frequent - flyer program such as United MileagePlus from 60,000 miles
per round trip or even by booking via Avianca LifeMiles, also for 60,000 miles
per round trip, though without the $ 75 close - in
award ticketing fee that United charges within 21 days of travel.
United typically charges 115,000 miles for
round trip business class
awards from the US to Europe, so even if you value the hotel at $ 125
per night, you're getting $ 875 in hotel plus $ 2,500 (or more) in value if you can redeem for a business class
round trip ticket.
This is a very specific
award, but if you've been dreaming of experiencing the beauty of Bora - Bora or Moorea, you can fly Air France from Los Angeles to Tahiti for mere 60,000 miles
per round trip.
It does have more reasonable business class rates to French Polynesia (150,000
per round trip), but finding
award space at this rate is nearly impossible.
As you might have noticed, you need to take approximately 11
round trips (based on earning 7000
per trip) before you can get one
award trip.
Thanks to United's generous booking policies, you can use one stopover and two open jaws
per round -
trip award ticket.
However, using Alaska miles to book a partner
award is only 100K miles
round trip, resulting in a redemption value of 5.5 cents
per point.
One of the most fantastic features of the Dynasty Flyer SkyTeam
award chart is a 70,000 - mile redemption
per round -
trip business class flight between North and South America.
You'll save 1,000
per round trip when you book two one - way
awards, well worth the few extra minutes of booking a separate
award reservation.
The only good use I was able to find after checking the Hawaiian
award chart, was Virgin Atlantic in business for 125,000
per round trip.
Asiana does add fuel surcharges to its
award flights originating outside Korea, but they are relatively low — around $ 200
per round -
trip flight between the U.S. and Korea.
One open - jaw permitted
per round -
trip award, but you can also easily book each leg separately with distance - based
awards
For example, it makes sense to get a Flying Blue
award for 50,000 miles
round trip from New - York to Paris when a refundable fare can be upwards of $ 3,700
round trip (that's 7.0 cents
per mile if you would actually have paid for that refundable ticket).
United's frequent flyer program, MileagePlus, allows one free stopover
per round -
trip award ticket.
While Delta infamously has no
award chart, the «normal» lowest price for to head from the Lower 48 to the Caribbean is 35,000 miles
per round trip.
Best Miles / Points Redemption: American Airlines flies discounted
award flights to Europe from October 15 - May 15, meaning a
round -
trip costs only 40,000 AA miles
per person.
The total price for the above itinerary comes out to 160K miles, exactly what it should be for a
round -
trip business class saver
award from the U.S. to South Asia
per United's chart.
United lets MileagePlus members use two open jaws
per round -
trip award ticket, so neither your origin nor destination has to be the same on your outbound and inbound flights.
If you have a co-branded American Airlines credit card, such as the Aviator Red MasterCard, the Citi AAdvantage Executive World Elite MasterCard or the Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select MasterCard, you can get 7,500 miles off the usual
round trip price of 25,000 miles
per domestic saver
award if you are heading to a city on this rotating monthly list.
Both are fantastic rates, considering that an economy class
award usually costs 60,000
per round trip, and a business class
award costs 115,000 - 140,000.
The study found that most airline cards «only earn a basic one mile
per dollar spent with few bonus categories like dining or groceries,» and «excluding Southwest, the average price of a domestic
award in miles is a high 37,332 miles
round trip.»
If you're one of those people who likes to plan their travel around promotions like this, it's worth noting that between September 7 — November 14 American Airlines offers discounted
award redemptions of 35,000 miles
round -
trip per person.
For instance, United has awesome rules for its roundtrip
award tickets, allowing one stop over, and two open - jaws
per round -
trip award ticket.