Elite Qualifying Flight Miles: Earned flight miles and
premium cabin bonuses on Icelandair count towards Elite Status.
Tip # 5: Fly Alaska Airlines partner airlines to earn flight miles and
premium cabin bonuses.
Not exact matches
Fly
premium economy with Qantas, Jetstar, and American Airlines (or World Traveller Plus with British Airways) to receive a
cabin bonus of 10 % more points.
It has a large 60,000 - mile
bonus, which is great for anyone who wants to build miles towards a
premium cabin award on Star Alliance airlines.
With a 35 percent
bonus to Virgin Atlantic, which is periodically offered, you can get a very high cent - per - point value on
premium cabins, particularly on their stylish Upper Class flights to London, with access to the Virgin Clubhouse.
People are signing up for the CSR to make the most of the 100,000
bonus and they almost certainly have plans to use them towards aspirational stays and
premium cabin travel.
I've shown the base mileage earning but, not only will American Airlines Elites earn more AAdvantage miles depending on their status, American is also offering
bonus miles for
premium cabin travel for a large part of 2016 (click to enlarge):
Still, if you have some flexibility with your bookings and if you're planing to book a
premium cabin, it may be worth connecting via LAX before traveling on to Hong Kong to make sure you earn the
bonus miles.
Under the current system American Airlines flyers earn yet more
bonus miles for flights in
premium cabins.
With Ft. Lauderdale's proximity to Miami and most other things South Florida offers this route is a nice
bonus for Avios collectors — we suddenly have a lot more
premium cabin space flying in / out of the Miami metropolitan area and that should be good for fares and award availability (hopefully!)
Having this lounge open to Priority Pass members is definitely a
bonus for those not traveling in a
premium cabin as it's one of the nicer Priority Pass lounges I've visited this year... it's certainly better than the likes of Aspire at Heathrow T5 and the Swissport lounge at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus.
But United will also give you up to 3,000
bonus miles on longer segments (3,000 + miles) in
premium cabins, or fewer miles on shorter segments / economy class, up to a maximum of 50,000
bonus miles.
Although American has a promotion to earn
bonus EQM on
premium cabin flights, these need to be AA flights (you don't have to register; it's automatic).
The most valuable category of airline flight /
bonus promos includes all airline promotions that don't have a third party, like
bonuses for buying or gifting miles, flying in
premium cabins and booking tickets on certain routes.
If you are a user of the British Airways «World Traveller Plus»
premium economy
cabin, and credit to Qantas, come August 1, the current 10 %
cabin bonus will be going away.
In the current system, point earning is basically 1 point per mile flown, together with a
cabin bonus for the
premium economy, business or first class.
The latest salvo in the battle for front -
cabin travelers comes from American, which unveiled a
bonus promotion for 2015 that rewards extra miles — in some cases a lot of extra miles — to AAdvantage members who buy pricey
premium seats.
Matched members from United's MileagePlus and American's AAdvantage programs will get to enjoy almost all the benefits currently offered to Elevate Gold and Elevate Silver members during this period — such as: points earning
bonuses, priority check - in, security clearance and boarding; free checked bag allowances; enhanced digital / social rewards; private discounts; an expanded advance purchase upgrade window for the airline's exclusive eight - seat First Class; complimentary space - available upgrades to the carrier's
premium Main
Cabin Select service; and complimentary access to the best seat assignments within Main
Cabin.
Although Southwest doesn't have
premium class
cabins, the elite status has some valuable benefits, such as priority boarding and security, point
bonuses, and more.
If all they wanted to do was reward
premium business, they could have increased
bonus miles for
premium cabin fares.
Considering neither my mom nor sister had flown first class on an international carrier before, and I had more than enough AAdvantage miles to cover a
premium -
cabin Oneworld redemption thanks to enormous sign - up
bonuses from my two Citi / AAdvantage Executive World Elite MasterCards, I quickly settled on Cathay Pacific for the outbound segment.
Currently, members earn 150 % of the miles flown (before elite
bonuses) with tickets booked in a
premium cabin.
Most of us book our
premium cabin seats with frequent flyer miles earned via credit card sign - up
bonuses or
This tier
bonus is in addition to the Avios
bonuses available for travelling in our
premium cabins.
Matching a similar move by American Airlines, United has come out with its own offer of
bonus miles for MileagePlus members who buy tickets in
premium cabins.