Taxes and fees are
required on all award tickets and increase in cost with international travel.
Not exact matches
The Sundance Film Festival
Awards Party
requires a
TICKET for access, based
on space availability.
TUESDAY, OCT. 30 Dick Berggren NASCAR -
on - Fox TV personality; founder of Speedway Illustrated Magazine SEMA Show New Products
Award Breakfast (free,
ticket required), 7:30 a.m.
TUESDAY, OCT. 30 Dick Berggren NASCAR -
on - Fox TV personality; founder of Speedway Illustrated Magazine SEMA Show New Products
Award Breakfast (free,
ticket required), 7:30 a.m. Las Vegas Hilton Ballrooms, A, B, E, F
If you need to go somewhere that
requires purchasing an expensive
ticket, you'll want to check out
award options
on one of the carriers that charges the same no matter how much the
ticket costs, like United or American.
Miles & More
requires you to pay the carrier - imposed surcharges
on award tickets, and they can be pretty steep
on Lufthansa.
And because British Airways has an
award redemption chart that's organized by distance flown instead of region, you'll only to cash in 25,000 British Airways miles
on a roundtrip
ticket from Los Angeles to Honolulu instead of the 45,000 miles American
requires for that same flight.
You will be
required to pay the carrier - imposed surcharges
on award tickets when booking with Miles & More.
Beginning Nov. 1, United MileagePlus is replacing its Standard
Awards with Everyday Awards, where the points required to book awards seats will be based on ticket prices instead of the airline's previous flat - rate p
Awards with Everyday
Awards, where the points required to book awards seats will be based on ticket prices instead of the airline's previous flat - rate p
Awards, where the points
required to book
awards seats will be based on ticket prices instead of the airline's previous flat - rate p
awards seats will be based
on ticket prices instead of the airline's previous flat - rate policy.
Singapore Airlines
requires the fewest number of miles when booking economy class
award tickets on Alaska Airlines from Zone 1 and Zone 2 at 24,000 and 23,000 miles, respectively.
Additional Terms & Conditions
Award Tickets on partner airlines may
require higher rates or a Saturday night stay.
JetBlue doesn't offer a fixed
award chart, but instead the number of miles
required to fly is dependent
on the current cash price of the
ticket.
Award prices will vary based
on how many connections are
required, the current
ticket price, and route demand.
Singapore Airlines is offering a 50 % discount
on the number of Krisflyer points
required for selected Economy Saver
award tickets.
Here is a chart of some randomly chosen British Airways routes from London together with the number of Avios and AAdvantage Miles
required for a roundtrip Business Class
award ticket on each route:
The number of miles and the fees
required for an
award ticket will depend
on which airline you choose to fly.
American,
on the other hand,
requires you to take the most «direct» route to your destination and has eliminated free stopovers and oneworld Explorer
award tickets.
United isn't the best program for me because it
requires a certain minimum spend threshold to earn status, and it also
awards miles based
on the price of your
tickets.
If you need to go somewhere that
requires purchasing an expensive
ticket, you'll want to check out
award options
on one of the carriers that charges the same no matter how much the
ticket costs, like United or American.
Many people didn't like doing this because there are no one - way redemptions available and SKYPASS
requires you to jump through a lot of hoops to complete bookings and places restrictions
on who you can redeem
award tickets for (limits to family members, etc.).
Also consider ANA, though roundtrip
award ticket is
required (see a post
on Lazytravelers for excellent overview of its new -LSB-...]
The exception is United, which
requires you to purchase the
ticket (or pay taxes and fees
on an
award ticket) using your airline credit card.
In terms of comparison to other airlines, two domestic roundtrip
award tickets in economy class
on United would
require 50,000 miles.
In some cases, airlines will offer to let you redeem for an
award for the child at 10 % of the miles
required for an adult
ticket, but one adult must also be traveling
on an
award ticket; you can't redeem an infant
award by itself to accompany a paid adult.
For an
award itinerary taken
on 2 or more airlines, of which at least one is a non-oneworld airline partner, please note that a separate redemption
ticket is
required of non-oneworld airline partner (s).
However, United does fly to a lot of destinations so you can frequently find
award tickets on United (which
require fewer miles than flights
on its partners).
Any
award ticket you book with traditional miles will
require you to pay the government taxes
on the
ticket.
People love Aeroplan because they offer some pretty great redemption options (90,000 miles for business class to Europe, though they've recently changed their
award chart to be less valuable)-- see here for details, and they love ANA because with their distance - based rewards you can get some great values (63,000 ANA miles for a business class
ticket on Virgin to London which until recently did not
require Virgin's outrageous fuel surcharges).