This is easy to do as many airlines will not even
show partner award seats on their website, making you call to find and book these seats.
Qantas is sometimes a great site to use to find award availability on partner airlines, since the British Airways site does not always
show partner award availability.
Qantas is sometimes a great site to use to find award availability on Qantas or other partner airlines, since the British Airways site does not always
show partner award availability.
It will not
show partner awards or, of course,
show partner awards that are not available.
Not exact matches
«The KI
Award recipients are innovators in back - of - house operations and work tirelessly to improve the challenges faced by restaurant operators,» says Dickie Brennan, Convention Chair for NRA
Show 2018 and owner / managing
partner of Dickie Brennan & Company, whose restaurant group includes Tableau, Palace Café, Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse, and Bourbon House.
Las Vegas — Chazz Palminteri, Academy
Award nominated actor, screenwriter, producer and
partner of BiVi Vodka will officially open the expo hall at the 2016 Nightclub & Bar Convention and Trade
Show with a ribbon cutting on Tuesday, March 8 at noon.
The recognition serves to inspire and encourage young builders to pursue their passions and shine the light on the up - and - coming customizers, including a select number of young vehicle builders who were
awarded a Young Guns prize package from
partnering consumer auto
shows.
Celebrating its 12th year at the
show, the GT Awards partners with automotive tastemakers and leading journalists to find the very best exhibiting cars at the SEMA Show based on five categor
show, the GT
Awards partners with automotive tastemakers and leading journalists to find the very best exhibiting cars at the SEMA
Show based on five categor
Show based on five categories.
SEMA has
partnered with AutoCon, Bonnier and Goodguys to
award builders age 27 and younger (as of November 3, 2017) who do not have a vehicle at the
Show an opportunity to participate in SEMA Battle of the Builders.
«The launch of our new digital video service with our long - time studio
partners allows us to bring
award - winning current and classic movies, TV
shows, documentaries and more to millions of customers» screens, coming soon.»
However, Flying Blue does not
show award space in their online search results for some of their
partners.
Not all
partners are
shown online, and sometimes the site
shows «phantom availability» for
partner airlines (
awards that are not really available for booking).
For
partner awards, you can compare to results
shown on the Air France website since they have many
partners in common.
At Global Pet Expo 2013,
show organizers and Pet Business Media
partnered to present the second - annual Global Pet Expo Retailer Excellence
Awards, a program designed to honor outstanding independent pet stores in a variety of categories, such as Merchandising Excellence and Best Live - Animal Specialty Store.
Created through a partnership between the
show's organizers and Pet Business magazine — the exclusive publishing
partner for Global Pet Expo — the Retailer Excellence
Awards honor outstanding independent pet stores in categories such as Merchandising, Marketing, Customer Service, Store Design and Community Service.
As the editor in chief of Pet Business, the exclusive publishing
partner of Global Pet Expo since the
show was launched in 2005, I've had the pleasure of serving on the Retailer Excellence
Awards judging panel for the past two years.
A few years ago, Pet Business
partnered with the organizers of Global Pet Expo to create what quickly became a highlight of the
show — the Retailer Excellence
Awards (REA).
There's one
partner that reliably
shows award space for Fiji Airways, and that's Qantas, the Australian airline.
Keep an eye on the
partners of your Host program, and learn which search engines
show partner flights, and when you'll need to call in to book an
award.
Hot Tip: Not all
partner airlines
show on
award searches with Air France / KLM.
The following table
shows the redemption
awards for many of the IHG airline
partners.
But, keep in mind that not all hope is lost since many airline websites fail to
show award space from all of their
partners.
United's website won't
show award space for two other
partners so you'll need to use alternative websites:
However, Air France / KLM's ability to search for SkyTeam
partner award space is better as Delta sometimes doesn't
show availability when it actually exists.
One important piece to searching for SkyTeam
partner award space is that you must specify that you are searching for a SkyTeam
award otherwise your search results will only
show Korean Air options.
However, Flying Blue does not
show award space in their online search results for some of their
partners.
if you are booking with a
partner and United.com does not
show award space (there are often
partner flights available the web booking options miss)
Of course, some frequent flyer program members might have simply overlooked available flights given the complaint regarding poor search tools, number four on the list, and the difficulty (including flights not
showing up in a search) in booking
awards on
partner airlines, a peeve that rounded out the top five.
The following table
shows one - way
award prices on
partners before and after the devaluation for travel originating in the United States.
Avios collected through the new
partner must be
shown in your Avios account during the Promotional period in order to qualify for the bonus Avios
award.
ANA's powerful
award search tool
shows availability on all Star Alliance
partner airlines.
Find the
award flights you need — Alaska's site will
show you
awards for SkyPass
partners Delta, Emirates and of course Alaska itself.
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Show Picks Up The Tempo With
Award - Winning Season (July 24, 2015)[Quoted] The New York Times — Using Dance To Connect With Locals (June 9, 2015)[Feature] F1RST IN SERVICE NEWS — 5 Outside The Box Vacations (June 3, 2015)[Feature] NYC Media — NYC Media Wins Six NY Emmy ®
Awards (May 4, 2015)[Mention] DanceAdventureNYC — Creating A Dance Vision Board (Apr 21, 2015)[Video] World Travel & Tourism Council — Social Media: Letting The Outside In Panel (April 16, 2015)[Feature] KIN Community — Mickela and Bare Feet ® join KIN Community (Apr 1, 2015)[Feature] The Fiddle in the Scottish Folk Music Revival — Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi (Mar 15, 2015)[Feature] Expedia Viewfinder Blog — Connecting Women Through Travel (Mar 10, 2015)[Feature] JejuSidae.com - 제주의 문화콘텐츠, 미국 공중파 채널로 (Mar 8, 2015)[Feature] HI Hostels — HI San Francisco City Center
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One thing to keep in mind is that ANA won't always
show you the
partners available for booking, so you sometimes you'll need to search United and Aeroplan for flights to Bangkok and then call up ANA to locate the
partner award seats.
In many cases, especially when you are redeeming JMB miles with oneworld and other
partners, you'll have to call because the
award flights won't
show up on the website.
Not all
partners are
shown online, and sometimes the site
shows «phantom availability» for
partner airlines (
awards that are not really available for booking).
The flights I was looking for were
shown on united.com (not on the BA
award search, as mentioned in the previous post, since it's only for BA and not
partners), but in my exploring, I did discover the Avios.com site that would seem to have the ability to search all Avios
award availability.
For
partner awards, you can compare to results
shown on the Air France website since they have many
partners in common.
Therefore, when you go to book
award tickets for flights within the U.S. via British Airways» Executive Club program, you will see AA flights
show up under the
partner flights section.
Explain the process for booking
awards for
partners which do not
show up online, which must be searched for on other sites and booked over the phone
This same tactic can be used for
award flights booked on
partner airlines and this is where understanding what you can and can not do becomes more important — not all airline website will
show you the overnight options like AA.com does.
Some airlines only
show awards for some
partners, other airlines won't
show you all of the valid connections you can make — just to name some of the challenges you are likely going to run into.
As
shown on their Star Alliance
partner award chart, flights from North America to Europe can be booked as low as 55,000 miles, but
partner airlines are not given the 15 % discount and the redemption rates are higher, so the deal is not to sweet (though still decent).
An example from Flying Blue that
shows the taxes and fees including fuel surcharges for booking an
award with SkyTeam
partner Delta.
You can search the
award chart here since it
shows rates by location but below you'll see the
partner award chart from the US.
The United Airlines
award search tool on United.com is useful but flawed, because it does not
show award availability for some
partners.
Any mileage programs marked with a *
show pricing that is only available if your
award does not include any alliance
partners (i.e. you only fly American Airlines flights if using American AAdvantage or United Airlines flights if using United MileagePlus).
British Airways
shows award availability for all Oneworld
partners.
But here's the very important thing to know: Not all
partners will
show up on an airline's online
award booking — and the Big Three have some of the worst availability of Saver (low) level
awards of any airlines.
Some airlines only
show awards for some
partners and other airlines won't
show you all of the valid connections you can make.