Sentences with phrase «rather than airline miles»

This is why I highly recommend credit cards that earn American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, or SPG Starpoints rather than airline miles.

If you prefer to earn rewards as statement credits toward travel purchases, rather than airline miles or hotel points, the Barclaycard Arrival Plus ® World Elite Mastercard ® could be a better choice.

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If you don't stay in hotels often enough that you care about earning hotel points, some hotel brands, such as Best Western and Marriott will let you earn miles with your chosen airline rather than earning points for hotel stays.

But everybody knows that because flights are more crowded today it's harder to get the redemption rewards because the airlines would rather take your money than take your miles.

Airlines have partnered with these types of programs to pay you in miles rather than in cash.

Using Fixed Value miles is usually pretty easy — you search for flights on the airline's site and choose to pay for your ticket with miles rather than money.

Rather than earning Points for Eligible Stays or as otherwise provided herein, you can instead elect to earn airline miles («Miles») with any of our approved partner frequent flyer programs («Airline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline Pairline miles («Miles») with any of our approved partner frequent flyer programs («Airline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline PAirline Programs») by logging into your Account through www.bestwestern.com or the Local Site for your country of residence or by calling a Best Western call center and directing BWI to award Miles (instead of Points) as your earning preference, identifying the Airline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline PAirline Program, and providing your frequent flyer membership number for your preferred Airline PAirline Program.

If you're looking to fly Air France first class, you'll need to book through Flying Blue, but paying the exorbitant Flying Blue rates to fly first class on a partner airline, rather than booking those seats through that partner or another SkyTeam member with good first class redemptions, is a waste of miles, particularly if you're transferring from a transfer program.

American Airlines announced several sweeping changes to its loyalty program last year, including a devalued award chart, fewer upgrades for elite members, and plans to begin awarding miles on the basis of revenue — rather than distance — sometime in 2016.

You can transfer miles directly from one airline to another rather than just using the miles to book tickets with the other airline.

In short, I've concluded that I'd rather earn bonus airline miles on hotel stays than hotel status and points.

As of earlier this year, American Airlines processes all miles purchases themselves rather than using Points.com as they did in the past.

It's a slightly better deal to exchange Marriott Rewards points for American Airlines miles rather than SPG Starpoints.

Singapore Airlines» KrisFlyer program and Cathay Pacific Asia Miles allow miles to expire on a rolling basis 36 months after they're earned rather than all at once — but you can extend them for a fee.

By choosing to fly with miles rather than paying by cash you'd be getting a return of around 1.75 c / mile — not a good return when you consider that I value my American Airlines miles at around 1.9 c / mile.

IHG Rewards members can elect to earn miles in various airline programs when they stay at IHG properties rather than earning IHG Rewards.

Such tradeoffs may be worthwhile if you are already keen on earning airline miles rather than free rentals for each reservation.

Wouldn't you rather have over 400,000 reward miles a year to put toward your vacation travel than paying for more of your airline miles and hotel stays with cash?

Well, rather than devaluing their award chart by increasing the number of miles required for award tickets, Japan Airlines has taken a different approach.

Because of its close partnership with American Airlines, you can use Avios to book pretty much any American flight for a fraction of the miles, since the Executive Club uses distance - based awards rather than zone - based awards.

One quirk of the new award chart is that select routes will now cost fewer miles when booked as a partner award rather than an award exclusively on Singapore Airlines / SilkAir.

A lot of digital ink has been spilled about whether individuals will earn more miles before or after the changes, but I think that's a relatively unimportant question — not just because I earn the overwhelming majority of my airline miles through manufactured spend, rather than flying, but also because it's irrelevant: the changes are coming, on January 1 in Delta's case and March 1 for United.

If you had the Discover Escape card ($ 60 annual fee), rather than the generic Discover, you could be earning two miles per dollar spent to use on any airline, hotel or rental car, with no blackout dates.

Devaluation of airline miles and hotel points is an ongoing thing — it's one reason I suggest you should earn»em and burn»em rather than holding on to large balances.

Whether you're working toward a revenue requirement for elite airline status or you can't find award availability for your travel dates, sometimes you have to pay for a ticket with cash rather than miles or points.

However, paying the exorbitant Flying Blue rates to fly First Class on a partner airline, rather than booking those seats through that partner or another SkyTeam member with good First Class redemptions, is a waste of miles, particularly if you're transferring your miles from a transfer program.

Another example is my coverage of Plink that offers gift cards as rewards rather than airline or hotel points (of course, the great thing there is that you can earn both: airline miles from your credit card, and gift card rewards from Plink).

Sometimes there are promotions where it makes sense to buy airline miles and then use them to get flights rather than spending money on airline tickets directly.

This is a great product for rewards credit card users who would rather earn cash back than airline miles or other travel rewards.

Delta's new revenue - based frequent flyer program has only shared details of how miles will be earned — based on the money you spend, rather than the miles you fly (time spent with an airline on their planes)-- and not how miles will be spent.

The copy focuses on earning miles (rather than redeeming) with partner airlines.

That's so lucrative I've argued that even if you prefer airline miles for high - value «aspirational» redemptions, in many cases you'd be better off simply buying those miles with your 5 % cash back rather than earning them with the airline's co-branded credit card.

As I've pointed out many times, I almost always suggest using British Airways Avios rather than American Airlines AAdvantage miles to book short - distance American Airlines flights since it costs less miles / points / Avios.

As more airlines switch to dollar - based accrual rather than mile - based, they will slowly become obsolete to all but first class flyers.

They continue to award miles based on distance flown rather than dollars spent, and they have some unique airline partners with great redemption...