You can not redeem Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles for premium cabin awards on Singapore airlines routes that are operated by A380, B777 or A350 (you can still
redeem economy awards)
If you are
redeeming an economy award, British Airways Executive club will offer excellent value and for business class / first class awards Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan will be perfect choice as you need only 62,500 miles for a one way business class award and 70,000 miles for a one way first class award to India.
Not exact matches
For example, a one way domestic business class
award ticket in the contiguous U.S.
redeemed through Singapore Airlines will cost 20,000 miles, 17,500
economy to Hawaii or 30,000 business to Hawaii.
Besides
redeeming miles for
award travel, you can
redeem miles for upgrades (e.g., upgrading from Main Cabin, aka
Economy, to Delta One, First or Business Class).
These flights will generally be an hour or less, so unless your miles are burning a hole in your pocket it might be better to
redeem an
economy ticket and save the extra miles for another (more exciting)
award redemption.
This often makes
economy award tickets too expensive to make sense, but the fees are much more reasonable when you're
redeeming for first class.
If you subscribe to Virgin Atlantic's Flying Club, you can
redeem economy and premium
economy awards at a 30 % discount between now and September 22.
For example, on a roundtrip
economy award for two passengers between New York City and Heathrow, passengers
redeeming a Travel Together Ticket would pay $ 999 in order to spend 28,571 Avios instead of 120,000 Skymiles.
If there is no
award availability in
economy, then
redeeming your miles for a business class ticket still makes economic sense.
Besides
redeeming miles for
award travel, you can
redeem miles for upgrades (e.g., upgrading from Main Cabin, aka
Economy, to Delta One, First or Business Class).
United Saver and American MilesSAAver
economy class
awards can be
redeemed for as little as 25,000 miles.
Many people like to transfer points to an airline loyalty program to
redeem first class flights or partner flights as they have better
award values than your typical
economy seat.
If you get poor value by
redeeming Avios for
Economy class
awards under these promotional conditions just how bad is the value when the promotion isn't running?
I like earning and
redeeming Avios and have done so for some extremely valuable domestic
economy awards (on a value - per - point basis).
Most people
redeem their miles using the domestic
economy award.
As from 24 May, you will be able to
redeem for Premium
Economy saver
award tickets flights where Premium
Economy is offered.
Kilometers may also be
redeemed for a Go Round the World
Award Ticket, which comes in one of two flavors:
economy or clase premier / business class.
Another way to interpret this is that they have reduced the number of free checked bags and restricted access to
Economy Plus for elite members in past announcements, made it harder to earn that elite status, and are now providing a way to get those lost benefits by
redeeming your hard earned
award miles — of which you'll soon have even fewer.
Discount can only be
redeemed for
Economy or Premium
Economy class
award tickets only.
Not only does the card offer 53,000 AAdvantage miles after spending requirements are met (enough to cover an off - peak
economy trip to Asia), but cardholders get 10 percent of their
redeemed miles back, bringing the total cost of the
award to 45,000 miles round - trip.
You can get 50 % discount on miles, when you
redeem your KrisFlyer miles for an
Economy Saver
award ticket on singaporeair.com and when you book and travel before July 10, 2015 to selected destinations.
I essentially got a Business Class seat for the same price as
Economy, because I did a little research to figure out the best way to
redeem this
award.
The levels shown here are for
award flights in
economy, business, and first from / to the Continental U.S. Remember that Delta doesn't let you
redeem SkyMiles for first - class travel.
For example, if you
redeem 12,500 United miles for a flight between Boston and San Diego via Chicago, you won't earn miles in any program because your booking class (X —
Economy award) is not eligible.
If you choose to
redeem for one - way
awards, it will 55,000 and 85,000 miles for one - way
Economy and business class respectively.
You can
redeem these miles for your future travel with Cathay Pacific, The number of miles needed for an
economy round trip
award ticket from Los Angeles and Chennai is 90,000 miles and approximately $ 391.54 in taxes and fees.
You can
redeem for the full class
award as well as upgrade your
Economy class fare to a Business Class fare.
While you can't
redeem points for Even More Space seats (premium
economy), you can often buy up to that section of the cabin using cash after you've made your
award reservation.
Virgin Australia Velocity points can be
redeemed for four types of
awards:
economy, premium
economy, business and first.
The flight to Grand Cayman from any of the above - mentioned cities is pretty short — about three hours from Houston — so
redeeming an
award in the
economy cabin makes the most sense.
On average you'll pay 2 % less when you
redeem American AAdvantage miles for
economy class
awards vs. booking the same travel through Alaska Airlines.
Now (and through
awards booked by April 27th), the price to
redeem for Business Class is twice the amount required for
Economy, and the price to
redeem for First Class is three times
Economy.
So since Alaska lets you
redeem for JAL premium
economy, you shouldn't have any trouble finding those seats when first & business class
awards aren't available.
PAL has gone through a number of announed devaluations and have introduced multiple
award categories (EcoFlex 1, 2, 3 and Business Flex) as well as a separate
award category for their new Premium
Economy cabin, making it more difficult and expensive to
redeem:
Unfortunately, you can't find Korean Air first - class
award availability on Delta.com since you can only
redeem Delta miles for
economy and business - class
awards on partners, and Alaska does not let you
redeem its miles for first - class
awards on Korean.
SAAver level
award seats on the A321T can be difficult to find, but if you're lucky, you can
redeem for 12,500 AAdvantage miles each way in
economy, 25,000 each way in business or 32,500 each way in first class (these amounts will increase on March 22, 2016).
His strategy is to book
award travel in
economy and business class well in advance, and then a day or so before the flight, call in to
redeem the additional miles to move up to first class.