Sentences with phrase «premium cabin award»

For a trip this complicated — and any time you're looking for premium cabin award seats for more than 1 person — that timeframe is normal and strongly suggested.

If you're looking for premium cabin award space, that's going to be really tough.

Bottom Line: You will get the most value out of your miles when booking international premium cabin award seats.

Normally the best use of frequent flyer miles is for international premium cabin awards because these are expensive tickets if you pay with cash but not very expensive if you pay with miles.

Purchase / share miles transactions are instant, if you are considering buying / share miles to book premium cabin awards.

The change in aircraft could have an effect on premium cabin award availability too... but not necessarily for the worse.

This means you have the most choice among partner airlines and typically the highest amount of premium cabin award space availability.

But you get better returns with premium cabin awards for international travel.

It can be very difficult to find premium cabin award travel on many of these airlines.

Unfortunately it's because premium cabin award space isn't even nearly as good as it used to be.

If you're traveling as a family, it can be tough to find enough premium cabin award space for everyone.

Coach travelers will welcome the changes, those looking for premium cabin awards likely will not.

On average, premium cabin awards increased by 33 - 50 %, in many cases, more.

Those looking for low cost international premium cabin awards.

You can't book international First class, which takes away flexibility when trying to find premium cabin award space.

We learned that the maximum value can be had, by transferring the points to frequent flyer programs and redeeming for premium cabin awards.

Long haul flights in premium cabins award the most Tier Points:

Swiss used to be the most generous Star Alliance airline when it comes to releasing premium cabin award availability to Star Alliance partners.

You can not redeem Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles for premium cabin awards on Singapore airlines routes that are operated by A380, B777 or A350 (you can still redeem economy awards)

KrisFlyer Miles are best used for Singapore Airlines premium cabin awards but there are some other sweet spots as well.

I think this is more than a devaluation, making it that much harder to earn enough miles for premium cabin award tickets: it calls for a paradigm shift.

United had a huge devaluation in this area a few years ago, making long - haul premium cabin awards much more expensive.

They release more premium cabin award space close in to the travel date (up to nine Business Class Seats and two First Class seats) than they do 11 months out (five Business Class seats and one First Class seat).

I would never hesitate to speak for Scott, so what I think Scott was trying to say is that certain points (such as American Express Membership Rewards earned on a Platinum card, which was the actual subject of his post) are so incredibly valuable when used for premium cabin award redemptions on a regular award chart that it's almost a shame to not maximize them for that purpose.

American Airlines made the biggest program changes of 2016, including a notable price hike for most premium cabin awards.

Spencer has put that knowledge to use by booking some of the top premium cabin award flights in the sky.

But I still think they good a good insight into just how much more expensive premium cabin award travel will be after 22 March 2016.

One of the most affordable premium cabin awards is to visit Europe for just 115,000 miles in business class.

If you're staying at non-chain hotels, or hotels where you don't collect that chain's loyalty points, and you redeem your miles for high - value awards, like intercontinental premium cabin awards, you'll get more value by booking through PointsHound than through a traditional cashback portal.

AAdvantage doesn't have off - peak and peak seasons when it comes to premium cabin awards so, year round, this Business Class redemption will set you back 115,000 AAdvantage miles and just $ 298 / # 206.

Now that Singapore Airlines is actually flying aircraft with their new Premium Economy product (e.g. A350 service between Singapore and Amsterdam) the airline has decided to upgrade its award charts to reflect the new product (as well as to re-price certain premium cabin awards to / from Europe).

Up until the recent devaluation Etihad premium cabin awards were some of the best uses of AAdvantage Miles you could find and, if you take into account just how good the seats and service on Etihad are, using AAdvantage miles on Etihad is still a good option despite the vastly increased redemption rates.

A special note here: Cathay Pacific premium cabin awards are a very popular redemption when using Alaska miles due to their significantly below market prices.

Of course, if you're trying to book multiple premium cabin award seats, even spending a ton won't necessarily guarantee that points won't be stranded, so it's still a good idea to have a plan.

With that in mind, let me share what I consider to be 10 of the best premium cabin award redemption values, in no particular order:

Then in April of this year they made more changes increasing the cost of premium cabin awards further.

American greatly underprices premium cabin awards between the Middle East or Indian Subcontinent and Europe.

I expect United to be quite tight with premium cabin award availability on this flight until they get a better idea of what load factors are going to be like....

-LSB-...] Flying Blue program is bumping up the cost of premium cabin awards in June, and in fact North America — Europe goes from 100,000 miles to 125,000 miles roundtrip just -LSB-...]

Alaska miles can be used to great effect if you're looking to book premium cabin awards on the likes of Cathay Pacific, Korean Air and even LAN and that's why it's one of the few currencies that I still find myself tempted to purchase every time there's a reasonably good bonus on offer.

Whatever the reasons, it now looks like South America is starting to join the award party with premium cabin award availability opening up on a number of routes out of Miami.

As of 22 March (Tuesday) the cost of Mile SAAver award travel between Los Angeles and Honk Kong has increased considerably in the premium cabins

This particular Starpoints offer is kind of limiting for premium cabin award tickets since 30,000 Starpoints is the max one person can buy.

Both loyalty currencies cost around the same in the promotions but with MileagePlus miles you can avoid paying fuel surcharges when using them on United and a number of other airlines and, on top of that, you can purchase long - haul premium cabin awards on United for fewer miles than you can on British Airways.

According to OMAT, Air China's Business Class hard product is «phenomenal» and he says that Air China is one of the most generous airlines in Star Alliance in terms of releasing premium cabin award space.