Delta doesn't have
separate award prices for its partner airlines, most of which participate in the SkyTeam alliance.
Not exact matches
* 3) Each appearance on a list gets an unweighted score based on the ranking 4) Ranking scores are logarithmically determined (i.e. top scores are much more valuable than lower scores) 5) Each retailer weighted by approximate market share as determined by the editors of Digital Book World and Iobyte Solutions 6) Additional appearance credit is
awarded for appearing on multiple lists 7) Combined scores for the week determine final score for each title 8) Titles are ranked by final scores and also grouped into sub-lists by
price (four
separate price - band lists: $ 0 — $ 2.99; $ 3.00 — $ 7.99; $ 8.00 — $ 9.99; and $ 10.00 and above) 9) Minimum
price that appeared at any point during the week on any retailer is used for determine
price band (assumption that low
price is an important driver of ranking)
Award prices are based on a menu of Saver and Anytime
awards, with a
separate menu for partner
awards.
You must take the next connecting flight onwards or your
award will be
priced as two
separate award tickets, but this can buy you an overnight stop in Fiji before heading onwards.
BA considers these charges to be
separate from the ticket
price, so they'll be added on to
award tickets as well.
While you shouldn't be confined to nonstop availability, the agents might not see a connecting flight and so
price it as two
separate awards.
So you see, finding
award space using the British Airways website is only the first step in booking
award travel —
pricing the
award is an entirely
separate question.
The same is not true for partner airlines and companion
awards, which operate on
separate, fixed -
priced award charts.
This is why we were worried when we looked at Japan Airlines Mileage Bank partner
award chart and noticed that it now lists
award prices separately: one for
awards prior to October 1, 2017, and a
separate chart for
awards after that date.
(PointsHound gets around this by booking
separate inventory that may be
priced differently and typically
awarding fewer miles due to the lower commission.)
Recall that there is
separate pricing for United - only vs. partner
awards.
While you shouldn't be confined to nonstop availability, the agents might not see a connecting flight and
price it as two
separate awards.
American Airlines recently introduced significant changes to their
award charts that drastically raise
prices in many cases, as well as creating two
separate charts for travel on American Airlines vs. partner airlines.
That makes it a great use of the
award chart search tool that I created, which displays a
separate price for each partner.
ANA has
separate prices for
awards that involve partner airlines, like United or Lufthansa, or
awards that are entirely on ANA's own flights.