Sentences with phrase «short haul redemptions»

Miles can be used for short haul redemptions on Virgin America, but the cost usually comes in about 25 % higher than British Airways avios.

Not exact matches

Air Travel Reward redemptions from the Air Travel Redemption Schedule start at 15,000 points for a round trip short - haul flight in economy class with a maximum ticket price of $ 350.

However, there is still decent redemption for short - haul domestic flights within Europe.

For example, Air Canada offers short - haul and long - haul redemption options for domestic flights, allowing you to save miles as compared to Singapore Air, which charges a uniform amount of miles for any domestic flight.

Short - haul flights in the U.S. on American and Alaska tend to be some of the best redemptions available.

The distance - based award chart can be great for short - haul flights and sweet - spot redemptions on partner airlines.

Not for value on short - haul routes like Avios, but for other redemptions that are available on a regular basis?

They include two big U.S. carriers, United and Southwest; British Airways, which is excellent for short - haul redemptions; the luxurious Singapore Airlines; and solid international carriers from Europe (Air France KLM and Virgin Atlantic) and Asia (Korean Air).

The most interesting point my example above illustrates is that they appear to use a formula to weight mixed - cabin redemptions, such that adding short - haul economy legs radically reduces the total cost in Iberia Avios, sometimes below the cost in British Airways Avios.

However, adding a short - haul economy flight to a long - haul business or first class flight may, as in my example, drastically reduce the number of Iberia Avios required for your award redemption.

The first is short - haul domestic economy redemptions.

Finally, don't forget about the great short - haul redemptions still found on British Airways and other discounted rates found on other airlines.

The option for short - haul flights at 15,000 round trip is tied with American Airlines» short - haul mileage requirement but the difference is that you can use this redemption for trips up to 1,150 miles!

25,000 miles would probably be the standard redemption for Delta but they sometimes have specials (like right now in September 2016 where you can find cheaper redemptions for short - haul routes like the 11,000 miles I found for a roundtrip from Los Angeles (LAX) to Las Vegas (LAS) or even routes as low as 10,000 roundtrip if you're able to piece it together.

It's lower redemption rate of only 15,000 roundtrip is an excellent way to redeem for cheap and though the short - haul requirement is 200 miles fewer than United's requirement, it also requires 5,000 fewer miles to redeem so it balances out.

If you have to pay high fees or fuel surcharges on an economy or short - haul flight, you should be especially cautious about using points for that redemption.

The best redemption options for British Airways flights will be short - haul flights, domestically in the United States or abroad.

Air India Flying Returns offers one of the best redemption for short haul flight on United Airlines in USA.

Despite the huge devaluation that Avios underwent earlier in the year, 100,000 Avios is still a nice chunk of change and would probably be welcome to anyone flying short - haul routes in the continental US (no fuel surcharges and low redemptions costs make these some of the best Avios redemptions) but this offer is definitely not for everybody.

British Airways is great for short - haul flights because they're cheap and have minimal or no surcharges added; Virgin Atlantic, Air France KLM and United are good options for transatlantic flights; Korean Air has solid redemptions to Asia, including Japan, Korea and Hong Kong; And Southwest, the largest low - cost carrier in the world, offers cheap domestic flights and only partners with Chase.

British Airways redemptions can be good value for short - haul flights.

British Airways eliminated its 4,500 - Avios redemptions, but American and Delta introduced cheaper short - haul awards.

This also makes these redemptions competitive with another very popular option for booking short haul flights, which is using British Airways Avios for nonstop flights starting at 7.5 K miles each way.

One change this year that receive a lot of attention among travel hackers was British Airways elimination of cheap short - haul redemptions in North America.

Yet, it has awesome short - haul redemptions for super cheap, awesome hotel transfers, and amazing value on long - hauls in a bedroom for 2 - 3 people.

But, one area that has benefited travelers is the redemption for short - haul flights.

As I prefer to use my Chase Ultimate Rewards points for Hyatt redemptions Amex Membership Rewards are where I look when I ned to top up my Avios balance for short - haul awards within Europe or within the US.

Southwest has limited international routes, British Airways is useful for short haul but weak for anything longer, Virgin Atlantic loves passing along super high fuel surcharges, and Korean Air promises no online partner redemptions and a ton of hoops to jump through via phone redemptions.

The award chart for flights on Vietnam Airlines is distance - based and has some good redemptions for short - and medium - haul flights.

short - haul redemptions on partner airlines like American Airlines and Alaska Airlines in the United States;

That makes it ideal for short - haul redemptions, including flights on its partners American Airlines and Alaska Airlines in the U.S..

Overall there are still some decent redemptions to be had for short - haul flights using Avios but, once again, British Airways has removed one of the biggest sweet spots in their award chart and that doesn't endear them to me any more.

Domestic redemptions are changing and, while not all of the city pairs are loaded into the system, it appears that short - haul redemptions are going down slightly — Boston (BOS) to New York (JFK) decreases from 12,500 to 11,500 Flying Blue miles in economy class and from 31,250 to 28,000 miles in first class).

To start with, you can take advantage of some of the redemptions noted above, like British Airways short - haul awards, Flying Blue to Hawaii or the Caribbean, transatlantic flights on Virgin Atlantic and Singapore Airlines first suites.

The recent devaluation to short - haul flight redemptions with Avios was a pretty big hit to the program but there's still some pretty good redemptions to be had.

This chart is fantastic for short - haul awards, as I noted in my post on the best Avios routes to fly and useful 4,500 Avios redemptions around the world.

Hawaiian miles can be used for great short - haul redemptions around the Hawaiian islands, trips from the Continental US to Hawaii, and a few other redemptions.

And while British Airways charges a lot in fuel surcharges and fees for long - haul flights, its short - haul redemptions remain valuable.

The best GarudaMiles redemptions are for short - haul domestic flights on Garuda and Citilink.

Although still a good deal, British Airways utilizes a slightly different redemption chart for short - haul flights that originate in the United States.

But it's not nearly enough to just allocate them some kind of uniform valuation, as some miles may be very valuable for a given type of redemption (e.g. Avios for short - haul economy awards) and quite a poor value for other types of redemptions (for Avios, ultra long - haul in a premium cabin with high mileage cost and often high fuel surcharges).

British Airways, for example, allows redemptions on short - haul flights in economy class for as few as 4,500 points one - way.

That's better than the excellent short - haul redemptions available using British Airways Avios.

Excellent business class service at decent redemption rates on short - haul and intra-Europe flights

Some of the best include the following: United Airlines, which opens up access to the huge Star Alliance network of carriers; British Airways, offering great value on short - haul nonstop flights due to their distance - based award chart; Korean Airlines, with amazing award availability in their first class cabins; and Hyatt, which is widely recognized as offering some of the highest value point redemption opportunities of any hotel chain.

Another redemption option is with German leisure airline Condor — you can use your miles for a 30 % discount on short - haul flights or 20 % discount on long - haul flights.

If all you care about doing is going from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back for as cheap as possible in economy, then by all means hoard Amex points and transfer to BA Avios to get in on those 4,500 point one way short - haul redemptions on American Airlines.

There are always a couple of seats in business and economy available for redemption, and business class is the same as the seats on the A380 (not the short - haul «business» seats).

British Airways Avios are some of the most valuable miles out there for their «sweet spot» redemptions on short - haul flights on American Airlines and Alaska Airlines, so they make up an essential part of any well - rounded travel rewards strategy.

On the redemption side, the program offers very cheap short - haul awards (as low as 4,500 miles in economy or 9,000 in business class), thus perfect for domestic flights within Japan (with no taxes!)