Not exact matches
The chart below shows the
round -
trip mileage costs plus the
round -
trip taxes / fees that are required
when booking
awards with Flying Blue miles.
Specifically, a
round -
trip economy class
award ticket will cost 20,000 SkyMiles more, while a business class
award ticket will require an additional 42,000 miles
when booking Virgin Australia.
Let's check out how many miles you will need to book a
round -
trip award, as well as the taxes and fees you can expect to pay
when booking a flight on Qantas with Alaska Mileage Plan miles.
Let's check out how many miles you will need to book a
round -
trip award, as well as the taxes and fees you can expect to pay
when booking a flight on Qantas with Alaska Mileage Plan miles.
Specifically, a
round -
trip economy class
award ticket will cost 20,000 SkyMiles more, while a business class
award ticket will require an additional 42,000 miles
when booking Virgin Australia.
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.
These fuel surcharges can be several hundred dollars, and
when added to the mandatory taxes (even United charges those) you might pay as much as $ 1,000 for your
round -
trip first class
award.
You'll also have access to discounted
round -
trip or one - way travel (up to 7,500 miles less)
when redeeming miles for MileSAAver
award tickets on certain routes.
When booking with Asiana Club or Singapore KrisFlyer, a one - way ticket will cost half the miles of the
round -
trip award.
You'll still receive reduced
award ticket pricing of up to 5,000 miles off
round -
trip award tickets
when redeeming miles for select market itineraries, 25 % savings in the form of a statement credit on inflight meal / beverage purchases, and World Elite ™ Mastercard travel benefits.
Let's take a look at some of the
round -
trip award mileage requirements and their taxes and fees
when using Mileage Bank miles to book a flight from New York City (JFK) to Paris on American Airlines.
However, Delta has made one significant change by permitting one - way
awards at half the cost of a
round -
trip ticket, and US Airways will do the same
when its program merges with American AAdvantage.
Now let's take a look at the
round -
trip SkyTeam
award ticket mileage requirements
when booking with Korean SkyPass.
When you use HawaiianMiles to book flights between Hawaii and the mainland, the lowest tier on the zone - based
award system (i.e. Coach SuperSaver) results in a flat 40,000 miles
round -
trip, or 35,000 miles with their co-branded credit card.
That's enough for a free
round -
trip domestic ticket — assuming you can find an available
award seat
when you want.
When you consider that it costs 135,000 — 155,000 Flying Club miles to fly
round trip between the West Coast and Europe in Business Class on Virgin Atlantic or Delta some of these ANA
awards look amazing.....
Although Delta Air Lines does not publish an
award chart,
round trip award prices ranged from 45,500 to 70,000 miles from the US to Mexico
when priced for April travel.
When you book a
round -
trip Mile SAAver
award flight of 500 miles or less, you can get a 2,000 - mile discount.
Using the old off - peak MilesSAAver
awards, 40,000 AAdvantage miles for a
round trip ticket from Europe to Hawaii could be great value for money
when ticket prices are in excess of $ 1,400 (as they often are) and I've made use of this
award on a number of occasions myself.
You'll save 1,000 per
round trip when you book two one - way
awards, well worth the few extra minutes of booking a separate
award reservation.
This means that an
award flight within US booked as a
round trip will cost 25,000 miles, but
when you book two one - way
awards you can fly the same
round trip for only 24,000 miles.
This is the only instance
when ANA Mileage Club permits one - way
awards, which are half the price of a
round -
trip award.
The chart below shows the
round -
trip mileage costs plus the
round -
trip taxes / fees that are required
when booking
awards with Flying Blue miles.
Delta considers Alaska to be part of the same geographic region as the contiguous U.S. and Canada
when it comes to pricing
awards, which means you can travel
round -
trip for just 25,000 miles in economy class.
Using this promotion, a
round -
trip Business Class fare between Manchester and Christchurch will earn over 60,000 KrisFlyer miles and,
when you consider that a one - way Business Class saver
award between London and Sydney is just 68,000 miles (
when booked online), that's a pretty good return!
I had my work cut out for me
when I tried to book three
round -
trip, first - class
awards to Sydney this past December.
Most airlines don't require you to book
round -
trip itineraries
when booking
award flights.
If you book it with Iberia, you'll pay the same 34,000 miles but only $ 99.25 in taxes — a huge difference
when booking a
round -
trip award.
Below I've listed all routes that originate from the USA that cost fewer miles
when booked as a partner
award, in
round -
trip pricing.
For example, it makes sense to get a Flying Blue
award for 50,000 miles
round trip from New - York to Paris
when a refundable fare can be upwards of $ 3,700
round trip (that's 7.0 cents per mile if you would actually have paid for that refundable ticket).
However, there are many alternatives available which allow us to book
round -
trip domestic economy
awards for cheaper prices than this
when the flights are short enough to fall under certain mileage thresholds.
It's possible to find
round -
trip awards for less than the standard price of 25,000 miles, even for flights that cost several hundred dollars
when booked for cash.
When all is said and done, I'm still charge the same price for this
award as if I had booked a
round -
trip to Paris because it's in the same region as Munich.
In short,
when searching for
award availability, the cost of interisland and North American
round -
trip tickets will be 2,500 to 5,000 miles less than HawaiianMiles members who don't have a co-branded card.
When you redeem Avios on these flights, depending on the destination and
award availability, you can use significantly fewer Avios than you would American miles, because British Airways uses a distance - based
award calculation, so you don't automatically have to use a minimum of 25,000 miles
round -
trip to travel domestically.
You can see that prior to the new year there were only four days during this time period
when you could have booked a non-stop Delta
award flight between Denver and Atlanta in economy (25,000 miles
round -
trip).
Sometimes,
when you try to change one direction of a
round trip, you have to release your seat on the direction you aren't changing, which incurs risk that said seat /
award availability may in fact either get scooped up or not go back into inventory in time for you to scoop it back up.
Holders of most American Airlines cards can also save up to 7,500 miles
round -
trip when they book reduced mileage
awards on select routes.
When booking an
award one way with Delta Skymiles we do give up our stopover that only comes with
round trip awards.
When redeeming miles for travel on Alaska Airlines, customers can book
round -
trip or one - way
awards in three tiers, including Super Saver, Saver, and Refundable.
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).
Conceivably, you can buy an
award ticket for only $ 10 (typical taxes and fees for a domestic
round -
trip)
when you buy your own ticket.