If you're interested in visiting during April, you just need to find
saver award flight availability from your city to Chicago (ORD) during one of these dates.
For instance, here's a typical
saver award flight for a RT PHX - HNL using your Aadvantage miles...
Finding a nonstop
Saver award flight might be challenging, depending where you're departing from in the U.S..
You can redeem your miles for award flights with United Airlines, starting at 25,000 miles for a round - trip flight or 12,500 miles for a one - way
Saver Award flight.
Those 15,000 miles are nearly enough for a domestic short - haul round - trip
saver award flight, and just 10,000 miles short of a standard domestic round - trip saver.
You can redeem your miles for award flights with United Airlines, starting at 25,000 miles for a round - trip flight or 12,500 miles for a one - way
Saver Award flight.
Saver Award flights are available on flights operated by both United and their partner airlines, and these are the MileagePlus award types we'll address in this post.
United is offering an award sale with 25 % off
saver award flights for Chase United MileagePlus card holders or 20 % off for non-cardholders to several mountain destinations for travel between June 9th and June 27th.
You can get a 20 % discount on miles used for
saver awards flights if you book by 3/14/18 11:59 pm CST and travel between 4/9/2018 and 5/20/2018.
Saver Award flights are available on flights operated by both United and their partner airlines, and these are the MileagePlus award types we'll address in this post.
This new transfer partner is great for taking advantage of Flying Blue's rotating reduced priced promo awards, and for redeeming for one - way Delta
saver award flights.
This discount requires flying a United - operated non-stop between the US and China or Hong Kong for your transpacific segment, with roundtrip
saver award flights booked between August 11 and August 22 for travel August 29 through April 30.
Not exact matches
However, the United
award chart shows that business class
saver tickets only cost 60,000 each way, or 120,000 round - trip for the same exact
flight, a quarter of how many miles or points you would have needed with cash back or a statement credit.
They have an easy - to - read
award chart, so you will always know the
saver award price for the
flights you are trying to book.
Based on the best available data, this chart shows the
saver level cost of Delta One
award flights to and from the U.S.
> Value: 50,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points are good for $ 625 in travel credit, 2 domestic
Saver award tickets on United, a possible $ 700 + in Southwest «Wan na Get Away» fares on some
flights, or 2 +
award nights at most Hyatts.
Additionally, even if your goal happens to be short
flights on American Airlines within the U.S., AA has sharply reduced their
saver award space (which is the space open to partners such as British Airways) so Avios are less useful for those
awards.
One - way
Saver Awards for domestic
flights can cost as little as 10,000 miles each way with United.
One of the cheapest routes is flying to Moscow for 40,000 Avios + $ 45 since it qualifies for
Award Flight Saver.
While Delta SkyMiles can be tough to use for booking
award flights to Australia because of incredibly high redemption rates, your miles can be useful if you find
saver level
award space.
Simply looking at the United
award chart, things are already looking up: it takes just 40,000 miles each way on
flights with Economy
Saver availability, adding up to a total requirement of 80,000 miles.
For the day Donna would like to leave, a
Saver Business Class
Award for a nonstop
flight is available.
First, by carrying a Chase United card (even the fee - free version) you have access to more
saver level domestic Economy
award availability (HT: bluecat who correctly points out the availability extends to international
flights on United metal) I haven't found the difference that noticeable for the most part, but while doing some research for an upcoming Brandon Asks post I noticed it was quite useful for positioning
flights.
Saver Economy space was available for this
flight, meaning the total for an
award came to just 40,000 miles + $ 128.90, including the $ 75 close - in booking charge that's waived for elites.
Using yesterday's example, if there were no
Saver level
awards on AA we would be stuck without a
flight to book with BA Avios.
However, if you can find
award space on Virgin Atlantic and a separate
saver level
award for a connecting
flight, there is a way to make this work.
Saver level economy
award tickets for domestic
flights can offer good value for your miles, but they may be difficult to find.
The initial
award cost isn't surprising given that it's the first
flight with a new product, but we hope Delta will start to release some
saver level
award seats to make redeeming SkyMiles worth it.
While I'm not holding my breath that these
awards will be anywhere near as generous or available as, say, American's off - peak
flights to Europe, even an expansion of regular
Saver availability would be excellent.
You can also upgrade your
flight to the First Class
Saver award if you call reservations at least 26 hours before your
flight departure.
This means when a
saver award is available, you can fly on an American Airlines
flight from Dallas to Las Vegas or Miami to New York City for just 7,500 Avios instead of 12,500 American Airlines miles.
Pretty much everyone who belongs to a frequent - flyer program is familiar with the ubiquitous 12,500 - mile domestic
saver one - way
award on airlines such as United and American, but what if I told you that you could fly on that very same domestic
flight, operated by those very same U.S. - based airlines, for only 7,500 miles?
The key thing to note is that sometimes all of the economy
saver awards sell out before all of the business
saver awards do — and the price of the economy
award tickets are then actually higher than a business class
award seat on the same
flight.
While
Saver Awards for continental U.S. flights will remain unchanged, the new policy — which you can read about in more detail here — means those who book business or first - class awards flights will fork over an additional 5,000 to 10,000 miles per leg on most routes, and even more during peak travel se
Awards for continental U.S.
flights will remain unchanged, the new policy — which you can read about in more detail here — means those who book business or first - class
awards flights will fork over an additional 5,000 to 10,000 miles per leg on most routes, and even more during peak travel se
awards flights will fork over an additional 5,000 to 10,000 miles per leg on most routes, and even more during peak travel seasons.
As a Hawaiian Airlines cardholder, you also get access to discounted
award flights which can be even cheaper than
saver level
awards.
Here we had a stroke of luck, depending on how you look at it: while the direct service
flight from Los Angeles did not show availability for a Business Class or First Class
Saver Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
Award on most dates, a mixed class
award connecting through San Francisco was avail
award connecting through San Francisco was available.
When an airline sells out of its
saver inventory of
award tickets on any
flight, the only option to book with miles is to pay the higher standard or anytime price — which often can be tens of thousands of miles more.
Airlines will generally issue a limited number of lower mileage «
saver»
award tickets on a
flight in each class of service, and then offer additional
award seats to flyers at a premium.
The next morning, a
flight on United from San Jose to Newark is available at their
Saver award level.
After confirming
Saver class availability for each
flight segment by searching them as one - way
flights, I now stitched them all together in United's multi-destination
award search tool, making certain to choose the specific
flight numbers I'd confirmed availability on during my one - way searches.
If
Saver Award space is available on United Airlines, you could transfer 25,000 miles to Singapore Airlines» KrisFlyer program to book the United
flight.
United is in the Star Alliance network, which means it has many other airline partners whose members can use their miles to book
flights operated by United when a
saver award is available.
If you happen to find
saver level
award space on American Airlines, Avios are also great for short
flights within the U.S.
I flew back on a business class
saver award, which included this Tokyo Narita to Newark
flight on... [Read more...] about Review: United Polaris Business Class, Tokyo to Newark
If the lowest cost roundtrip available is 50,000, then the return
flight costs 30,000 miles and is therefore a
Saver award.
Options for the return
flight aren't quite as good, as there are no
saver awards available on the Monday after the game.
There are six unique economy
saver level
award flights available on the Friday before the game.
There is no
saver level
award availability on American on the four days preceding the game, or the three days following the game for the return
flight.
Use if: Singapore Airlines allows one free stopover on a round - trip
Saver flight (or 2 free on a Standard
Award flight), which will allow you to visit a new destination.
We lowered prices on most short - haul intra-region Economy
Saver Awards for regions outside of the U.S., such as
flights within Europe.