Sentences with phrase «saver awards do»

The Star Alliance saver awards don't appear to have been hit too badly... although some awards between regions not including the US appear to have risen sharply.

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.

Not exact matches

In order to get the most value from your miles, you need to do everything possible to find these rare saver awards, and consider saving your miles if only the so - called standard awards are available.

Do you know if this needs to be a saver - level award or anytime?

Although Delta doesn't publish its award chart, it's easy to figure out what the lowest (saver) price for a particular route is, and, especially if you plan your travel a few months in advance, Delta can be generous when it comes to releasing space in the economy cabin.

There are some other awards that can be used for Saver award levels, but I just don't trust American's Saver award space at the moment to redeem for those certificates.

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.

Second, United only shows the lowest award rate, which doesn't tell you if this is the best («Saver») award rate to your destination.

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 availAward on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was availaward connecting through San Francisco was available.

Just because a zone and a price exist on an award chart doesn't mean saver level award seats will be available.

Thankfully, Saver Award availability in Economy does exist for Justin's departure date.

My fear is that they'll just do away with the whole notion of saver / anytime awards and just go to a fixed value system.

This is a route where I didn't have much issues finding saver award availability while booking Singapore Suites about a year ago.

But I don't have good experience finding SuperSaver award space and couldn't determine if this discount also applies to more common Saver awards.

But it charges 35,000 miles for a Saver award and doesn't have off - peak discounts.

I do think Hawaiian has good service if you've never tried them before, but awards from North America to Hawaii are 20,000 miles one - way at the SuperSaver level, and you're more likely to find them at the 30,000 Saver level.

And partners will still be booked at Saver levels so the dynamic pricing of Everyday awards (which appears to be capped at reasonable limits) doesn't appear to be a hugely negative factor.

It is true you may have to spend more miles to fly on a peak date than an off - peak date, but it can be done, and if you use some strategy you can sometimes fly home for the holidays at the lower, saver award level.

The award calendar is meant to show the saver economy / premium award availability across a two - month period, so that you don't have to check one day at a time.

Although Asiana Club only has one award fare (no flex, market, saver, etc.), it does have peak and off - peak redemptions.

Like South America, United divides the African continent into northern and southern sections, but this doesn't matter for the basic Saver awards.

Finding Saver Award availability with Delta is always an adventure, especially during the summer, so don't get upset if you cant find anything for the dates you want.

And remember, using Pay with Points means you don't have to find Saver or other low - level award availability.

Saver awards cost a touch more than SuperSaver (usually between one - third and one - fourth more depending on the route), while Flex awards, which do not confer any additional benefits such as American Airlines AAnyTime awards, cost twice the SuperSaver redemption rate.

~ 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).

The second issue is that Singapore Airlines doesn't typically allow stopovers on one - way saver awards.

So what do you do when you can't get a ticket to Paris on a saver award?

None of the changes to award fees can be classified as good news for travelers, especially if you're booking saver level awards — why would you do anything else?!

Since Delta doesn't include saver award seats in when you're booking an award at a level higher than saver, they charge you additively.

This is odd to me for the reason that Delta does not allow you to connect saver awards to form a single itinerary.

I was lucky to find a First Class Saver Award on one of the 3 inaugural Airbus A321T flights on January 7th (there was a 4th out of LAX but it was a redeye that landed on the 8th, so I don't count... [Read more...] about Review: American Airlines Flagship Check - In / Lounge JFK

Because Delta does not publish an award chart, it can be difficult to know when you have found the cheapest «saver» awards that are made available to partner airlines like Alaska.

The partner chart doesn't have a Standard level because partner awards always price at the Saver award.

I didn't see any first class saver awards from dfw but economy seats are available.

Wish Delta would do something this simple... I spent better part of a week finding what I thought were saver level awards to / from US to Hawaii @ 65k each way that I could feed to Korean Air or Air France agent.

BTW Explorer card does not provide the expanded IN fare class saver business / first award that high level elites can see.

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).

In other words do saver awards have a fixed number of miles required regardless of when they become available?

If you find a saver award using another airline's site (or using ExpertFlyer) and BritishAirways.com doesn't pull it up, give them a call and see if the phone agent can find the space for you.

I highly recommend doing your own research in advance and finding saver award availability at United.com and wiring down the flight numbers and calling in.

Do you know if they typically open saver award seats, or Lufthansa seats, closer to departure date?

Now, Delta is notoriously bad for award flights, because they often don't make anything available at the lowest level saver tickets.

Also, checking daily does not show ANY saver awards «last minute,» ever.

In order to get the most value from your miles, you need to do everything possible to find these rare saver awards, and consider saving your miles if only the so - called standard awards are available.

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