These rates are usually very reasonable and lower than
standard award charts — except for first class awards.
News of devaluations hit every year, especially as airlines begin to move away from
standard award charts.
Promo awards, offering 25 - 50 percent off
the standard award chart, are available each month for select flights, but most passengers will spend the bulk of their miles on classic awards, which can be used on any partner airline but not on first class cabins.
However, in business class the same itinerary (Los Angeles to Tokyo, Tokyo to Seoul, and back again) would cost 195,000 Avios on
the standard award chart, while costing just 180,000 Avios on the two - or - more chart.
Their award rates are based on the ticket fare so there's
no standard award chart for their redemptions.
When you wrote this article, did they have this comment below
the Standard award chart: «1.
Not exact matches
The
award chart will start in 2019, so anything booked for 2018 will be at the
standard pricing for a free night.
A free night
award chart is being introduced in 2019 where the amount of points required for a free night will depend on peak,
standard and off - peak pricing at all hotels.
Rather than having a
standard region to region
chart, Alaska Mileage Plan has specific
award prices for individual airlines.
Here's a real - life example of decision making using this
chart: I'm planning a 2 - night stay at the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice this January, when the cheapest
standard room
award is 50,000 HHonors points.
In addition, Alaska has a variety of partner
award charts, though these typically price out at the
standard 12,500 mile price each way.
Contrary to how
standard zone based
award charts fall apart in short distances (like the LAX - LAS example above), distance based programs excel in short - medium range flights.
The
standard Asia Miles
award chart is displayed below, which applies when flying on Cathay Pacific or up to one partner:
Right now the new
award chart shows one way domestic Everyday Awards in economy capped at 32,500 versus the Standard Award price of 25
award chart shows one way domestic Everyday
Awards in economy capped at 32,500 versus the
Standard Award price of 25
Award price of 25,000.
This means you can use your miles for Aer Lingus, Iberia, and British Airways flights based on the
standard six zone
award chart.
Below is the
standard Marriott
award chart for their hotel properties.
Starwood will argue that their regular
award chart is for
standard rooms only and that guests booking into these hotels would be booking into suites... but that doesn't quite work for them either.
Air Canada offers two types of
award tickets: ClassicFlight, which adhers to the
standard, zone - based
award chart pricing, and Market Fare, which is pegged to the cost of cash tickets and priced based on demand.
That
award chart is particularly valuable for premium cabin redemptions, since business class and first class
awards cost 2 and 3 times the cost of economy, respectively, instead of the 3 and 4 times charged on the
standard Executive Club
award chart.
If you're looking at AeroMexico's SkyTeam
award chart, this explains why a domestic US ticket costs 40,000 «Premier Points:» once converted into miles it's a
standard 25,000 - mile roundtrip redemption.
Even though United Airlines doesn't provide a
standard off - peak
award chart, I find that they're pretty good about promoting their
awards with discounted rates.
Instead of having a pretty straight forward distance based
award chart with redemption rates by fare class for economy, Economy FlexyFlyer, Premium Economy and business class tickets, PAL introduced multiple
award levels for each fare class: In addition to the
Standard Economy
awards, there are no Flex 1, Flex 2, Flex 3 and Flex 4
awards.
The partner
chart doesn't have a
Standard level because partner
awards always price at the Saver
award.
However, there's one sweet spot on the KrisFlyer
chart map, and that is the A380 flight that Singapore Airlines operates from Frankfurt to New York's JFK Airport, which costs 140,000 miles for a roundtrip
standard award in a First Class Suite.
Here is a
standard range
chart and a few case examples for pain and suffering
awards from rear end car accidents in BC: