Sentences with phrase «short of an award flight»

Not exact matches

Avios are the shared mileage currency of British Airways and Iberian Airlines — but you can use them for far more than travel on these two European carriers, and you can take advantage of their distance award chart for short flights.

Logically, we're drawn to think of using British Airways points from Britain, but these short distance award rules also apply to partner flights and are great redemption for other parts of the world.

Delta also has no fee for last - minute award bookings and opens up a larger percentage of seats last minute than most airlines, so if you need an award flight on short order, it's a great option.

The flip side of this is an Israel to Middle East award is quite expensive even if just a short flight.

Award space for the international flight wasn't available out of Orlando but was out of Miami, so using a dirt - cheap Avios booking to cover the short hop was well worthwhile.

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.

In reality, I'd been looking at award availability for both trips concurrently, knowing that award flights to Anchorage may be difficult to find at the very height of Alaska's short annual window of pleasant weather.

For relatively short domestic flights, this distance - based award chart can save you a lot of redeemable miles.

It's not a very good ratio to book an award flight outright, but it's definitely worth looking into if you're short on airline miles and have plenty of Ultimate Rewards laying around.

In addition, there are now lower prices for most short - haul intra-region Economy awards for regions outside of the U.S., such as flights within Europe.

Short - haul intra-region pricing applies if the award is on a single nonstop flight and less than 800 miles in one of the MileagePlus regions defined on our award chart.

We lowered prices on most short - haul intra-region Economy Saver Awards for regions outside of the U.S., such as flights within Europe.

It's recommended to stick with short haul flights as they pass on fuel surcharges for award travel, greatly increasing the cost of long flights.

Those 15,000 miles are nearly enough for a domestic short - haul round - trip saver award flight, and just 10,000 miles short of a standard domestic round - trip saver.

American is adding a shorter - flight MileSAAver awards because «a much greater percentage» of its flights are at shorter distances, Rubin said.

It's also probably worth noting that, if you're happy to take connecting flights, the award availability looks even better (although some of the aircraft may not be the greatest on the short - haul flights).

convert Avios points are extremely cost effective when redeemed for short - haul flights on both American Airlines and British Airways, although the cost of an award flight will increase if there are multiple segments as the cost of a ticket with multiple segments is based on the combined cost of each individual segment.

Partner economy awards were unchanged, including the super valuable short haul prices of 4,500 to 10,000 Avios for flights up to 2,000 miles.

An award flight between Los Angeles and London costs the same number of miles as an award flight between New York and London — despite the latter being a considerably shorter flight.

Using Iberia Avios instead of British Airways Avios for short - haul North American flights isn't a silver bullet to solve all of your award booking problems.

Of the options to book awards on Virgin Australia (Delta SkyMiles, Etihad Guest, Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic), KrisFlyer and Etihad Guest rival each other for the best value on short flights.

Aside from a few short - haul economy flights we paid for out of pocket, the only costs we encountered were taxes and fees on our award tickets — all of which cost less than an economy fare would have on any of the flights.

Just as I don't book long haul Economy Class awards I don't consider short haul Premium Cabin bookings to be a good use of my miles — I can handle an exit row in Economy Class for a short flight.

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.

A different kind of short - haul flight where Avios can be useful is intra-Europe where, just like in the US, the taxes and fees on Avios award flights are comparatively low.

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 strength of British Airways» Avios is the affordability of short award flights that may otherwise be prohibitively expensive.

For trips within the U.S. and Canada, you have the option of getting a 15,000 - mile economy or 25,000 - mile business class round - trip award for short - haul flights between a wide variety of U.S. and Canadian cities.

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 short flight takes you to Cayman Brac, the last of the Cayman Islands, for a four night stay at Brac Reef Beach Resort, Cayman Brac's Award Winning Beachfront Dive Resort.

Avios are the shared mileage currency of British Airways and Iberian Airlines — but you can use them for far more than travel on these two European carriers, and you can take advantage of their distance award chart for short flights.

Their partner award chart is not as generous as the Avios chart is for the majority of distances you'd use for destinations in the Caribbean, except for very short flights, such as those under 500 kms like the one above.

The flight to Grand Cayman from any of the above - mentioned cities is pretty short — about three hours from Houston — so redeeming an award in the economy cabin makes the most sense.

In the short term she may want to just handle this ski trip as a single award flight with WN RR points — and get to work on the rest of her mileage balances with AA and Avios.

A real life example of why it is hard to always stick to one class with award flights came about the other day in our Oneworld tips, tricks and tools post: what would you prefer, a business class flight with an overnight, and a terminal change, or a coach flight with a short 2 hour layover?

With these cheaper Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan award tickets it seems like Alaska is really going hard at becoming the force to be reckoned with on the West Coast where most of these shorter, cheaper award flights will be redeemed.

Booking partner awards can be a great use of miles for short flights within another country or region.

My guess is that American may be raising the minimum cost of an award flight to British Airways, hence the price increase for zone 1 short - haul flights in the US market only.

British Airways collects nasty fuel surcharges on a lot of awards, but as you can see exemplified above, there are many options with no fuel surcharges (and even more with low ones — mainly short, direct economy flights).

Because of British Airways» distance - based award chart, short haul flights are often a fantastic use of Avios.

Since British Airways has a distance - based award chart where short flights are very few miles, we can often save loads of miles by using British Airways miles instead of American Airlines.

You get all the similar benefits of Gold status (auto - upgrades for short flights, elite phone reps, priority check - in, MoveUp, and waived award fees) plus the following.

Some of the most major changes were that short haul flights decreased dramatically and even long haul award tickets between the north east and Europe went down 20 %.

Originally I left the valuation alone, since Avios are mostly useful on short - haul flights anyway, and that portion of the award chart was left more or less unharmed.

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