Not exact matches
American Airlines surprised many today when it announced several customer - friendly changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex
Awards» will allow customers to book one - way tickets for half the amount of miles needed for a
round -
trip ticket, and will also let passengers book multi-city itineraries and combine
award seats with non-
award seats.Under the old paradigm, passengers could only book
round -
trips to and from the same city and were forced to fly in an
award seat of equal value for both legs of the journey.This often made booking
award travel an exercise in futility — for example, an
award seat might be available only on an outbound journey, but not the return
trip.But
now passengers will be able to fly to New York in an
award seat, and return in a premium - fare seat if a return
award seat is not available.
Now let's take a look at the
round -
trip SkyTeam
award ticket mileage requirements when booking with Korean SkyPass.
You used to be able to fly to nearby domestic destinations for fewer miles than flying across the country, but
now most airlines have a blanket 25,000 mile
round -
trip domestic
award no matter where you are traveling in the United States.
US Airways probably has the most generous premium - cabin
award chart for airlines right
now (90K
round trip in Business Class to North Asia, 110K to Australia / New Zealand), and it's been that way for a looong time.
Considering these AAdvantage
awards will cost 85,000
round -
trip (+42 %) after the devaluation and considering how much harder it will be to earn AAdvantage miles going forward (thanks to the new revenue - based system that's being introduced) I'm not sure we'll be able to do that many
trips like this in the future — it's best to do them
now while we still can.
A
round trip award on Virgin Atlantic was
now showing at 170,000 miles
round trip plus over $ 1,200 in fees.
Off - peak
awards from the U.S. to Europe, for example,
now cost 45,000 miles
round -
trip in economy class through American AAdvantage and are only valid for a few months from late January to March and again from November to early December, completely excluding the holiday season.
So that
round -
trip award ticket is
now $ 395.
From
now through May 20, you can book
award flights for 25,000 miles
round -
trip in economy, through the end of Virgin's schedule in April 2016.
Now, if we want to just look at the normal
award charts for the major airlines, let's say, United and American, it's 45,000 miles
round trip to Hawaii.
I only have 180,000 miles
now, so I don't have enough for 2
round -
trip business
awards.
With the future prices of flights unknown and finding
awards tickets costing more than 1 MILLION miles
round trip we decided to book early 2016
trips now to lock in good prices and bring our balances down close to zero.
2) If you don't have enough points for the roundtrip
award flight you want, book a one - way flight with miles / points and pay for the return («Unlike years ago, when one - way cash tickets cost as much or more than a
round trip, many destinations
now offer one - way cash tickets for half the price of a
round trip,» the company said).