Not exact matches
Regardless
of what happens to the cash
price of a United ticket, an
award ticket will cost one
of two possible amounts: a «
saver» level
price in miles, and a «standard»
price.
Award prices are based on a menu
of Saver and Anytime
awards, with a separate menu for partner
awards.
Availability for those
saver - level
awards is usually plentiful, and, at peak summer travel season when cash
prices are extremely high, that can get you a value
of more than 2 cents per SkyMile.
The key thing to note is that sometimes all
of the economy
saver awards sell out before all
of the business
saver awards do — and the
price of the economy
award tickets are then actually higher than a business class
award seat on the same flight.
When an airline sells out
of its
saver inventory
of award tickets on any flight, the only option to book with miles is to pay the higher standard or anytime
price — which often can be tens
of thousands
of miles more.
Saver, sometimes called «Low - level»
awards are the lowest
priced, and most limited in selection
of award seats.
At the
saver level, business class
awards cost twice the
price of economy
awards on the same route, and first class
awards cost three times as much.
We lowered
prices on most short - haul intra-region Economy
Saver Awards for regions outside
of the U.S., such as flights within Europe.
And partners will still be booked at
Saver levels so the dynamic
pricing of Everyday
awards (which appears to be capped at reasonable limits) doesn't appear to be a hugely negative factor.
So long as you are not flying one
of these premium routes the
prices for your
Saver Awards will stay the exact same.
Since the cost
of award tickets are based on the
price of the Value fare, you'll get the same 2.89 cents per point for any route unless the cheapest
Saver level fare is available.
The main changes involve the repricing
of United's international
Saver Awards, the introduction of variable price «Everyday Awards» and the repricing of United's partner a
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United's threshold is 700 miles; any flights
of 700 miles or less
price out at 10K miles each way for
Saver awards.
For local airline partners that are basically an extension
of SAA — Airlink and SA Express — the previous MileageKeeper (like a
saver fare) and AnyDay
award pricing levels remain in effect.
They're what people usually call «
saver» or «non-refundable»
awards, and my understanding is that the number
of awards issued at these new, lower
prices won't be changing.
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.
This new transfer partner is great for taking advantage
of Flying Blue's rotating reduced
priced promo
awards, and for redeeming for one - way Delta
saver award flights.
Other times, the
award ticket
price exceeded the 12,500 - or 25,000 - point cost
of a typical
saver award seat on a domestic flight, Sorensen says.
In the example below, the «
Saver Award» is half the
price of the «Standard
Award.»
But because some
of its
award seat
prices exceeded the
saver - level
award price, the airline's availability rating was listed at 87.1 %, not 100 %.
The airline has cut the
price of roundtrip economy class
Saver award tickets to the islands from the usual 45,000 miles to 36,000 miles — a 20 percent reduction.
Hawaiian Airlines
awards can be booked as one way or roundtrip, and has 3 tiers
of award prices (Super
Saver,
Saver, and Anytime).