Sentences with phrase «premium cabin award tickets»
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Alaska has an amazing award chart, known for its below market award prices for certain international premium cabin tickets.
https://www.rewardexpert.com/
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.
Certain premium cabin flight segments may earn different award miles and Premier qualifying credits than those defined for your ticketed fare class in the chart above (your fare class for each flight segment is displayed during booking and when viewing a ticketed itinerary on united.com).
To clarify, I mean if you're paying cash (by cash I mean hopefully using a credit card that gets travel awards) for your economy ticket, you may be able pay a similar amount of cash to buy points / miles and then use those points / miles to book premium cabin travel.
If you're looking to book international flights in premium cabins, those fares tend to be quite a bit higher than domestic first, so while you'll still get two cents per points in value, you'll likely need fewer points or miles to book traditional award tickets.
@bobbie thing is i am torn on qantas miles, long haul awards are crazy expensive especially in premium cabins and they add fuel surcharges to awards even when there's no fuel surcharge on the ticket itself (like qantas international flights departing australia).
Getting to Los Angeles using Delta miles can be a challenge, but once you reach that gateway (by award or separate ticket) I find that more often than not it's possible to put together a premium cabin award using Delta miles on China Southern.
If you fly internationally, however, they can be $ 400 to $ 600 per person — comparable to what you would pay if you booked an award ticket, and even higher if you are in a premium cabin.
The good news is, the program is lucrative for crediting partner flights, awarding 200 - 300 % of miles flown for tickets in premium cabins on several partners including Air Canada, Air China and Lufthansa.