Online posters were finding
premium cabin award travel on Singapore Airlines that was bookable using United Mileage Plus miles.
It can be very difficult to find
premium cabin award travel on many of these airlines.
Not exact matches
Because Spirit only offers one class of service and
award travel only covers your base fare, redeeming miles for a
premium cabin is not an option.
KrisFlyer miles are best used for
award travel on Singapore Airlines» own flights, especially in
premium cabins.
If you're
traveling as a family, it can be tough to find enough
premium cabin award space for everyone.
The
award rats for
premium cabin travel are increasing whether you're flying across the country or across the ocean.
There are four Promo
Awards for
travel between Europe and the Caribbean this time... but only two are for
premium cabin travel (which is where most of the value is to be found):
Waitlisting for
travel awards is permitted in
premium cabins on flights operated by United, and will be automatically confirmed, if the waitlisted
cabin is available, based on the status of the account holder.
Also, the BAEC is quite generous when it comes to
awarding Avios for
premium cabin travel.
But you get better returns with
premium cabin awards for international
travel.
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.
Travelling in
premium cabins is a dream for most of us, but it can be reality if you can redeem frequent flyer miles for a
premium cabin award seat.
This does not help the fact that
premium cabin award availability in the sAAver category is generally nil or close to it unless you can
travel literally the next day.
At the same time,
award pricing will be reduced for some
premium cabin travel on American to Hawaii and within the U.S., Alaska said.
Now, granted, LH can probably price those C
cabins to sell if they want to more than they can price F to sell (since a lowball F price really damages their C pricing), but I think it's pretty clear than LH has a very high
premium cabin to coach ratio that invites the sort of spoilage during «soft»
travel periods that leads to reasonable
award inventory.
Already they have one of the most insanely expensive
award charts for long haul
premium cabin travel.