This usually isn't as important with hotels
since award availability is much easier to come by.
Calling is recommended
since award availability can change frequently, and it might disappear before your email request is processed.
Not exact matches
While several airlines, including United, Japan Airlines, and All Nippon Airways, offer direct flights between New York and Tokyo, Korean Air offers the most frequent flyer
award availability — useful for us,
since we only had a little bit of schedule flexibility — and is a transfer partner of Chase, whose points we had already started to earn.
Since United is the only US - based carrier in Star Alliance, you will have the best chance to find
award seat
availability for your area with this airline.
Since Aeromexico is a member of the SkyTeam alliance, you can also book
award travel on some of its partner airlines, however,
award availability on these will vary.
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.
American Airlines miles aren't the easiest
award miles to use to get to Europe,
since you will often have to route through London (higher fees), fly British Airways (high fuel surcharges on longer flights), and they limit
award availability on their own metal, especially for premium cabin flights.
This part was easy,
since there was low - level
award availability on American Airlines through Chicago, so I booked 2 tickets for 12,000 British Airways Avios and $ 5 each.
Since there was low - level
availability and the flights are during American Airlines» «low» European
award season, I was able to book the tickets for 20,000 AAdvantage miles and $ 69.60 each.
In order to book this redemption, Dave had to do some digging
since AA.com doesn't show
award availability for JAL.
Since a lot of
availability has already been eaten away on the most straightforward
award routes, we'll have to be creative in finding a solution.
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.
A lot of people prefer the in - air product of Jet Blue over Southwest for longer flights
since it has tv's, free wifi, more leg room, business / first class «Mint» cabins, allows you to pick your seat, etc. but both airlines constantly rate among the best for
award availability, making them both solid choices for getting around the country, in terms of finding
award seats.
If you like to travel during peak travel times, waiting until a couple of weeks or months before your travel date is a recipe for not finding the
award flights or hotel nights that you want
since availability is limited.
Increased
award availability When we announced the SkyMiles 2015 program we committed to making more
award seats available at the lowest prices and
since the start of 2015 we have expanded
award availability at the lowest prices by greater than 50 %.
It's been a very long time
since I've seen any premium cabin
award availability on Singapore Airlines» A380 flights.
This offers much more flexibility than
award tickets
since you don't have to worry about
availability.
American's website often routes many customers looking for an
award to this flight
since it has really great
award availability.
(I didn't do too much searching,
since I was on a mission to book my specific flight, but presumably, you'd have more luck searching all Avios
award availability, through more of the partners — e.g. Aer Lingus, BA, and Iberia.)
Since Amtrak offers last - seat
award availability, any seats or sleeper accommodations which are available on amtrak.com are available for
award redemption, subject to the blackout dates below.
Since other partner airlines aren't available to be booked online, it makes it difficult to search for
award availability.
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.
But it's important to remember that Spring 2016
award availability has been loaded into the airlines reservations system
since May so a lot of people have already had their pick of dates and yet
availability is still not terrible.
While this is one definite advantage of using cash over using actual airline miles,
since real miles are subject to airlines» always fluctuating
award seats
availability, the other side of the coin is «real» miles can potentially be worth far more in terms of what they can get you.
Since you'll never find
award availability on that route, the best deal is for flights between Australia and New Zealand.
Since some FA's apparently don't know how mileage accrual works, it's probable they're unaware of American's really sad
award availability.
Since no miles are deducted when you waitlist, this means that you can waitlist as many
awards as you like prior to booking your non-ideal option that has
availability.
Since Doug Parker took the helm, he's done a lot to make AAdvantage miles less valuable by taking what used to be decent American Airlines
award availability and chucking that out the window.
Since Alaska Airlines is not aligned with any alliance, they have a unique range of partners that cover most of the globe, and allow you to easily find
award availability.
And
since I was having a tough time finding Lufthansa first class
availability out of NYC on my required date, I fortunately found what I needed out of Washington DC Dulles (IAD), on the A340 - 300, and I was able to book this Lufthansa first class
award 15 days in advance.
Typically when people think of
award redemptions they think of the three major alliances, and the airlines that belong to them,
since that's where most
award availability is.
Since British Airways has a distance - based
award chart and American Airlines is a Oneworld partner, you can use Avios to book any AA flight with saver level
award availability and have the price based on the Avios chart.
Delta seems to add some as the schedule opens but their best premium cabin international
award availability is much closer to departure, this is one of the reasons for the outcry over Delta's new 72 hour rule for changes / cancellations,
since it prevents members from converting medium or high
availability to low
availability when low space opens at the last minute).
If many
awards cost more miles, do you think that people with lots of miles (like you) will have better chances of finding space
since some people won't be able to afford the new rates with the same
availability?
Since American Airlines has clamped down on low - level
award availability during the holidays (I was very fortunate to score a Christmas - New Year's sAAver - ish fare last time around), our next trip to Nicaragua will be well after the holidays.
Unfortunately, you can't find Korean Air first - class
award availability on Delta.com
since you can only redeem Delta miles for economy and business - class
awards on partners, and Alaska does not let you redeem its miles for first - class
awards on Korean.
This is especially valuable if you tend to book flights without much advance notice,
since the cost to purchase a ticket goes up dramatically, but the cost to redeem for an
award flight stays the same (assuming there's
availability).
Unfortunately, in the time
since,
award availability has been nearly nil (as noted by Greg in...
Here's my dilemma: I can be poised to check ANA for
award availability on United or another Star Alliance partner 356 days in advance of the outbound leg — but if I want to use ANA miles to book a round trip
award, don't I have to wait to book until the requisite number of days before the return leg,
since ANA doesn't allow one ways?
There's also a bit of a learning curve for finding partner
award availability,
since it doesn't show up on the Korean Air website.
Since I already searched the American Airlines website for
award availability, I expect the exact same three flights I found on the last step to be available now.
Plus,
since I won't be trying to requalify as Globalist for 2018 I'll be free to redeem Hyatt points for all my stays and not be constrained by the
availability of Points + Cash
awards.
This is a quick example of what I've observed for a while — that
since last year, AA
award availability has improved from the pathetically lacking state of a few years ago.
If you use United MileagePlus as your primary airline rewards program, it can even be worth signing up for one of their co-branded credit cards just for access to last - seat «Standard» - level
award availability, even if you never spend a dollar on the card,
since access to those Standard
awards can increase the value of Ultimate Rewards points transferred in from Chase.
In the world before the Supreme Court's recent Philip Morris decision, the risk of giving the plaintiff — who might only be one of many victims of the defendant's conduct — the entire punitive damages
award was that it would more likely undermine the state's in - terest in ensuring a fair distribution of both compensatory and retributive damages for oth - ers,
since a crippling retributive damages
award might impair the
availability of adequate compensation funds (or punitive damages) for future claimants.