Depending upon the destination, fliers can save as much as 7,500 miles off of a roundtrip
saver award ticket.
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.
You can get 50 % discount on miles, when you redeem your KrisFlyer miles for an Economy
Saver award ticket on singaporeair.com and when you book and travel before July 10, 2015 to selected destinations.
You need 80,000 United Miles for a one way business
saver award ticket to India.
> 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.
Singapore Airlines is offering a 50 % discount on the number of Krisflyer points required for selected Economy
Saver award tickets.
As from 24 May, you will be able to redeem for Premium Economy
saver award tickets flights where Premium Economy is offered.
Round - trip
saver award tickets come with a free stopover, and round - trip flex award tickets come with two free stopovers.
Saver award tickets will cost you 35K AA Miles or 32K Etihad Guest miles approximately.
Singapore Airlines offers 1 stopover for roundtrip
saver award tickets.
If the hotel you want is in the contiguous US or Canada, that means that you and your partner can use the 50,000 miles to each fly for free on
saver award tickets on an airline like American Airlines, and then have five free hotel nights at your destination.
The airline has cut the price of roundtrip economy class
Saver award tickets to the islands from the usual 45,000 miles to 36,000 miles — a 20 percent reduction.
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.
Regardless of what happens to the cash price of a United
ticket, an
award ticket will cost one of two possible amounts: a «
saver» level price in miles, and a «standard» price.
In fact, the pricing on Business class
Saver awards is so reasonable that cardholders who normally couldn't afford business class could easily rack up enough United Miles to fund a round - trip
ticket to Europe or Asia in business class.
These Reduced Mileage
Awards can save you up to 7,500 miles per person on round - trip
tickets purchased at the
saver level.
You can sometimes get more value by being flexible and booking
Saver or partner
awards when cash
tickets are expensive.
Saver level economy
award tickets for domestic flights can offer good value for your miles, but they may be difficult to find.
Unfortunately, this means it would cost 160,000 Delta SkyMiles to book an
award ticket, which is double the
saver level mileage cost of 80,000 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.
If Global Services member books a cash
ticket, she or he may bring along a companion for the cost of a
saver level
award ticket.
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.
There are three types of economy
awards (super
saver,
saver and refundable) and two types of first class
awards (refundable and nonrefundable), along with two levels of Money + Miles
tickets.
We still offer
Saver Awards, with an updated
Saver Award chart for
tickets booked on or after November 1, 2017.
We still offer two types of
awards, Saver Awards and now Everyday Awards, for tickets booked on or after November 1,
awards,
Saver Awards and now Everyday Awards, for tickets booked on or after November 1,
Awards and now Everyday
Awards, for tickets booked on or after November 1,
Awards, for
tickets booked on or after November 1, 2017.
Since the cost of
award tickets are based on the price of the Value fare, you'll get the same 2.89 cents per point for any route unless the cheapest
Saver level fare is available.
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.
~ 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).
Arrival miles are also good to use when the lowest or
saver redemption rate is not available for an
award flight using another program's miles, but the cash
ticket price is low.
This is assuming
award tickets are available at the
saver level.
Miles earned on your Platinum Delta SkyMiles card can be redeemed for a variety of
awards, but the best value is realized on
saver level
award tickets.
So what do you do when you can't get a
ticket to Paris on a
saver award?
Yes, you still have to pay fees with Iberia, and they're much more than those typically tied to United
award flights, but if there's no availability in business class through other alliances, it might be worth it to you to pay the fee to get your business class
saver tickets.
However, If you are considering accumulating miles for this promotion, keep in mind that Singapore Airlines charges fuel surcharges on
award tickets and this promotion is valid for only
saver economy
awards on select routes.
Virgin America costs a few thousand miles more for the cheapest «
saver» or «non-refundable»
award tickets.
You can get a separate and more expensive
award ticket rather than the cheaper
saver fares, but that may require you to pay standard rates or even buy two
tickets.
And yes, I flew using two
award tickets for only 60,000 miles each just three weeks before departure when American Airlines
Saver Awards opened up.
The
saver fares for round - trip
award tickets on American Airlines, Delta and United cost 35,000 miles in economy and 60,000 miles in business.
Discounted
Saver Award price is limited to a specific
ticketing and travel period.
In fact, the pricing on Business class
Saver awards is so reasonable, that cardholders who normally couldn't afford business class could easily rack up enough United Miles to fund a round - trip
ticket to Europe or Asia in business class.
(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.)
Other Chase cards you can apply for at the same time include the Chase Freedom (15K for spending $ 500 +2.5 K for adding an additional user for a limited time only plus 5 - 10 points per dollar spent in rotating categories), Chase British Airways (Up to 100K signup bonus for a limited time only), the Chase United Explorer (30K signup plus another 5K points for adding a free additional user on the consumer card / 50K signup points on the business card, plus get free luggage, free primary car rental insurance including in the US and Israel, expanded
saver and standard
award ticket availability, priority boarding, and more), the Chase IHG (with 60K signup points and a free night every subsequent year upon renewal), the Chase Marriott (with 50K signup points and a free night every subsequent year upon renewal), the Chase Slate (with zero balance transfer fees, 0 % APR on purchase and balance transfers for 18 months, and free FICO scores), the Chase Ink Plus (60K signup points plus up to 5 points per dollar spent), and the Chase Ink Cash (20K signup points plus up to 5 points per dollar spent).
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.
It rarely makes sense to book an
award ticket at anything other than the lowest mileage rates, often called
Saver levels.
Other Chase cards you can apply for at the same time include the Chase British Airways (50K signup points, 1.25 Avios per dollar, and an annual companion
award ticket if you spend $ 30K + in a year), and the Chase United Explorer (30K signup points plus another 5K points for adding a free additional user, and it gives free luggage, free primary car rental insurance including in the US and Israel, expanded
saver and standard
award ticket availability, priority boarding, and more), the Chase Sapphire Preferred (40K signup points plus another 5K points for adding a free additional user, no fee the first year, free primary car rental insurance including in the US and Israel, plus 2 - 2.14 points per dollar on travel and dining with no Foreign Exchange fees), the Chase Marriott (with 50K signup points plus a free night upon signup and a free night every subsequent year upon renewal), the Chase Freedom (which has no annual fee, gives 5 points per dollar in rotating categories, and 10 % bonus points through 2015 if you have a Chase checking account), and the Chase Ink Cash (which also has no annual fee and gives 5 points per dollar on telecom / office supplies and 2 points per dollar on dining and gas)
Now, Delta is notoriously bad for
award flights, because they often don't make anything available at the lowest level
saver tickets.
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.
Through December 4, 2014 United is offering 20 % off
saver economy
award tickets to select cities in Europe.
A question on waiting to see
Saver Award availability: I booked 2 award tickets with Alaska to Hawaii for the last week of Dec 15 (11 months in adva
Award availability: I booked 2
award tickets with Alaska to Hawaii for the last week of Dec 15 (11 months in adva
award tickets with Alaska to Hawaii for the last week of Dec 15 (11 months in advance).