For instance, United has awesome rules for
its roundtrip award tickets, allowing one stop over, and two open - jaws per round - trip award ticket.
Rules: For international,
roundtrip award tickets, United allows two open - jaws and one stopover (as long as the total number of connections for each direction does not exceed 3.)
In terms of comparison to other airlines, two domestic
roundtrip award tickets in economy class on United would require 50,000 miles.
It's also interesting that if you are someone who uses LifeMiles to travel to Central America or Colombia, you can earn a 50 % discount on
a roundtrip award ticket from the United States if you spend $ 12,000 in a calendar year, with the opportunity for another award discount after $ 24,000 spending.
A roundtrip award ticket to Africa will cost 80,000 United miles.
United Airlines and All Nippon Airways (ANA) each allow a stopover on round - trip bookings, while Japan Airlines allows up to 3 stopovers on
a roundtrip award ticket.
A roundtrip award ticket to Europe from the United States usually costs an average of 50,000 miles in coach or 100,000 in business class.
Also consider ANA, though
roundtrip award ticket is required (see a post on Lazytravelers for excellent overview of its new -LSB-...]
Aeroplan (Air Canada's program) allows two stopovers or one stopover and one open jaw on
a roundtrip award ticket.
One stopover is allowed per
roundtrip Award Ticket under certain circumstances.
For example, take the below very simple
roundtrip award ticket between New York and Rome, with a stopover in London on the way out.
Not exact matches
15,000 bonus miles after your first purchase — enough for up to 3
roundtrip off - peak
award tickets with taxes and fees from $ 11.20 per
award.
From one purchase, 15,000 bonus miles are
awarded to the cardholder which is valid for up to three
roundtrip tickets.
According to the Aeroplan
Award Chart, it costs 60K for a
roundtrip ticket between North America and Western Europe at the lowest level.
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.
It does have a restriction on economy class
awards, so that could be as much as 20,000 LifeMiles discount on a
roundtrip economy class
ticket to Colombia, or 18,000 miles to Central America.
Charts make it easier to determine the cost of an
award redemption: for example, knowing that you'll need 60,000 miles for a
roundtrip economy
ticket from the U.S. to Europe.
Although it may be possible to book the flight via a partner to subvert the
roundtrip - only nature of Delta
award tickets, even the «low»
award price of 22,500 miles is unpalatable.
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.
A business class
ticket on Cathay Pacific between Los Angeles and Hong Kong falls into Asia Miles
award Zone D (5,000 to 7,500 miles) and costs 120,000 miles per
roundtrip.
Access to reduced mileage
awards (2,500 one way or 5,000
roundtrip for economy
tickets from Hawaii to the mainland US)
Europeans frequently have access to transatlantic Business Class sales where the fares are well under $ 2,000
roundtrip (like here and here), so why would anybody pay over $ 3,400 for 115,000 miles in a sale like this one to buy a Business Class
award ticket?
If you assume that $ 2,500 is a fair price for a Lufthansa Business Class
roundtrip ticket then, allowing for the $ 620 in fees you have to pay on the
award, 105, ooo miles is getting you $ 1,880 of value.
Now you can use that knowledge to enter for a chance to win two
roundtrip tickets to South Africa on
award - winning South African Airways, from any of the U.S. cities that SAA serves.
For instance, an economy
award ticket between Korea and Japan costs 30,000 miles
roundtrip, and a Prestige
award costs 45,000 miles.
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:
Many
award tickets, such as flights to Europe, are on par with those of other competing airlines, with economy
tickets starting at 60,000 miles
roundtrip plus taxes and fees.
If you fly United, that's enough for a
roundtrip business class
ticket from North America to Europe on a Saver
Award and enough for two round trips from North America to Europe in economy on a Saver
Award.
If you're looking at AeroMexico's SkyTeam
award chart, this explains why a domestic US
ticket costs 40,000 «Premier Points:» once converted into miles it's a standard 25,000 - mile
roundtrip redemption.
That's probably going to be the cheapest redemption rate you'll ever find but even though the fees are reasonable you could get a
roundtrip paid
ticket for under $ 120, so you'd be better off just paying cash for an
award like that.
The trick is that you'll have to book a
roundtrip ticket since Iberia doesn't allow one way
awards with American and you'll also have to book non-stop
tickets from the West Coast or PHX (which is just under the 3,000 miles threshold).
Tickets on Delta Airines are pricey; a business class
award seat to Europe, for example, will cost you 125,000 miles per
roundtrip.
All of the programs discussed in this post allow you to book one - way
award tickets for half of the miles of a
roundtrip ticket (so assume 12.5 K each way per person).
You can book one - way
award flights for half the cost of
roundtrip tickets, pay for up to 60 percent of a
ticket with cash and mix cabins on
award itineraries.
All three of the major U.S. airlines» frequent flyer programs — American Airlines AAdvantage, United MileagePlus and Delta SkyMiles — are based on one - way
award tickets, so normally you can buy two one - way
tickets or a
roundtrip to your destination for the same price.
The Aeroflot fuel surcharge runs about $ 250 per
roundtrip, while an
award ticket on Air Europa will cost you around $ 540.
We're offering rare savings on Hawaii travel: a
roundtrip Saver
Award ticket in United Economy ® is just 36,000 miles, regularly 45,000 miles.
Depending upon the destination, fliers can save as much as 7,500 miles off of a
roundtrip saver
award ticket.
Singapore Airlines offers 1 stopover for
roundtrip saver
award tickets.
(For full
awards they allow 1 stopover for a oneway
award ticket and two stopovers for a
roundtrip, but we'll more likely just pay attention to the saver
awards.)
I already had a return
ticket, but you could use a United free one way to maximize your
award if you book a
roundtrip on Lufthansa or other Star Alliance carrier using United miles.
Jason mentioned that he had talked to someone in Delta PR told him that they didn't think that most people cared about seeing their
award chart, except for the 25,000 miles for a
roundtrip domestic
ticket.
One of the other plaintiffs booked two
roundtrip economy
award tickets and paid $ 1,437 in extra fees and charges, the majority of which were fuel surcharges.
80000 is needed for a
roundtrip business class
award ticket from Los Angeles to Rome.
When redeeming on American Airlines, you can take advantage of American's off - peak
award tickets to Central & South America as well as Europe, which offer
roundtrip coach
tickets to Europe for just 40,000 miles.
No longer do you have to hope that American has
roundtrip seats available if you're looking for a JFK - LAX
award ticket in business class.
Lufthansa miles have great rules for
award tickets, allowing two stopovers and two open jaws for
roundtrip international flights.
Normally, a domestic business class
ticket costs 50,000 miles
roundtrip (possibly less if you're booking a distance - based
award), a
roundtrip to Europe is 50,000, while Asia is around 110,000.
- Miles & More is the mileage program of Lufthansa as well as Austrian and SWISS, and members get more access to premium
award tickets - All three airlines are part of Star Alliance, so you can use these miles on any of the 27 partner airlines including US Airways and United (and Miles & More
awards can be booked one - way, which US Airways
awards can not)- You can book a
roundtrip domestic business class
award on United and US Airways for 35,000 miles, or a first class
ticket for 50,000 miles.
There are many options for free
award travel, such as 2
roundtrip economy
tickets within the US, 1
roundtrip economy
ticket to Europe with miles to spare, 1 one way business
ticket to Europe (just need another 500 miles).