Switchfly's study calculated the availability of
saver award seats on the flights of 25 airlines.
Other times, the award ticket price exceeded the 12,500 - or 25,000 - point cost of a typical
saver award seat on a domestic flight, Sorensen says.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Just because a zone and a price exist
on an
award chart doesn't mean
saver level
award seats will be available.
To book an Avios
award,
Saver level
seats must be available
on American to AAdvantage flyers.
While finding
saver level business class
award space
on Hawaiian Airlines can be very tough, there are lots of routes with lie - flat
seats if you can find the space.
Flights between L.A. and Sydney feature a 777 - 300ER with excellent configuration in both first and business class cabins, but premium class
seats on this route are virtually impossible to get at
saver award rates.
As stated,
award availability for (
saver) business class to New Zealand
on United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with business class
seats between the US and Australia / New Zealand.
~ 13,000 points for two tickets is a much better deal than 50,000 miles for
award seats on United (which didn't have any
saver - level
award space, that day or the next).
-LSB-...] first I booked JFK - LAX - PVG - HKG in business
on Dreamliner, but then AA flooded the market -LRB--RRB- with premium
seat Saver awards in practically all directions, and I decided to go for the -LSB-...]
They requested travel
on dates from June through October, looking for the lowest - priced (i.e. «
saver style»)
award seats.
No fee
on close - in
award booking and expanded access to
saver award seats.
That means I'd need to spend $ 25K
on my card to get a free ticket, and it's often hard to find
Saver Award seats.
With a single program, miles will be able to be used both for
saver awards and the more expensive
awards that give you any available
seat regardless of airline (currently that can only be done with US Airways miles
on US Airways, and American miles
on American).
Despite that, there wasn't a single
saver level first class
award seat on either flight.
Availability is unfortunately always going to be an issue with
award seats — that's the constraint in the system I try to preach flexibility above all else, so you usually can come by the
Saver Level
seats needed to book the 35k Singapore miles
on United flights.
On international airlines,
saver award seats were defined as
award seats in the lowest tier available.
Among 25 airlines, only two — Southwest and AirBerlin — made less - expensive «
saver award seats» available
on 100 % of flights, according to a 2015 study of 7,640 booking queries from the loyalty platform Switchfly, conducted by research firm IdeaWorksCompany.
On all other airlines in the survey, saver award seats weren't available on at least some flight
On all other airlines in the survey,
saver award seats weren't available
on at least some flight
on at least some flights.
Award space is of course subject to the vagaries of revenue management (protip: anyone who claims that all you have to do is say «revenue management» to get award seats to open up is probably a few fries short of a happy meal), and it does seem like Suites saver awards on SQ221 from SIN - SYD have been blo
Award space is of course subject to the vagaries of revenue management (protip: anyone who claims that all you have to do is say «revenue management» to get
award seats to open up is probably a few fries short of a happy meal), and it does seem like Suites saver awards on SQ221 from SIN - SYD have been blo
award seats to open up is probably a few fries short of a happy meal), and it does seem like Suites
saver awards on SQ221 from SIN - SYD have been blocked.
However, United said it will continue to offer MileagePlus domestic
Saver awards (which are subject to capacity controls) at levels of 10,000 or 12,500 miles one - way for economy class
seats, depending
on distance.
United will continue to offer MileagePlus domestic
Saver awards (which are subject to capacity controls) at levels of 10,000 or 12,500 miles one - way for economy class
seats, depending
on distance.