Sentences with phrase «taking stopovers»

This 2 part series outlines how to exploit the distance based ANA Award Flights to combine many short trips into a single award redemption, by taking the stopovers «at home».

However, to get fares that low, you may need to take a stopover in Toronto or Calgary.

If you are based in the US, then you should use this only for flights within the US, while taking your stopover in your home city area.

If you live in or near an Alaska Airlines hub city, you would effectively take your stopover there and double the value of your miles.

(A resident of New York could route a trip from Rio to Honolulu and take a stopover at home in New York for 6 months, getting 2 separate trips for the price of 1).

Well, you could just route that as a San Francisco to Seattle, stopover in Seattle for months on end, then continue your journey Seattle to New York and that would cost you only 12.5 K as well, since you took a stopover in Seattle, which happens to be your home.

This means you can take a stopover whenever you want, but non-stop flights will be cheaper than connecting even between the same cities.

Sometimes you might have to cough up a few thousand more miles for an airline's program but if they give you the option to take a stopover then it might be worth it in the end, since they sometimes operate as free one - way flights.

Have you ever taken a stopover?

She can combine these trips into a single itinerary and take her stopovers in Portland to essentially get 2 trips out of each itinerary.

Not exact matches

Forced to take shelter in a stagecoach stopover, the three come face to face with several unfamiliar faces who seem to have agendas of their own.

Moving off the soapbox, Tarantino's 8th film «The Hateful Eight» takes place in Wyoming at a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard where deception and betrayal are the order of the day.

The novel itself travels widely, taking the reader from Marseilles to the dungeon at Chateau d'If, to the high seas with pirates, and then to Rome — including the catacombs and illegal gangs robbing Roman citizens — plus a short stopover in Turkey, then to Paris, and the French country - side.

Savvy travelers know how to take advantage of open jaw tickets and stopovers to get free flights.

Montreal • • • ✈ Amsterdam • • • ✈ Nice KLM offers one no - fee stopover in Amsterdam for travellers whose routes take them through the city.En route to the beaches on the Côte d'Azur, you can tour the Dutch city's canals and get your art fix at the Rijksmuseum.

Transferring points to airline partners is almost always the best value, especially if you can take advantage of stopover and open - jaw policies.

I've also demoted this card in the ranking due to the massive United award chart devaluation that took effect February 1, 2014, and given the MileagePlus award increased change fees and stopover rule changes that went into effect October 6, 2016.

First, the stopover must take place in the same region as your destination, which can not be the same region as your origin.

We chose an airline known to specialise in transferring animals like race horses, so they had handlers who took care of Sable during the stopover.

In any case, especially given the extraordinary cost of many intra-South American flights, taking advantage of this stopover is a good way to really maximize the value of their award tickets.

I don't receive any bonus or commission on the Citi AAdvantage cards, but American offers by far the best value for travel to the NFL International Series in London, and that value just skyrockets if you decide to take advantage of the stopover rule to build in a free one - way flight for a future trip.

So what exactly is a stopover and an open jaw and which carriers let you take them?

22,500 miles is almost half of what it takes to book this trip and then continue on with a stopover.

However, United's a good option, too, depending on when and where you plan to travel, especially if you take advantage of an open - jaw, stopover or both as part of your award.

If you want to take advantage of stopovers, you'll have to call.

Back to the mission at hand: whether you're interested in taking advantage of this stopover rule or just getting to and from London for the least money possible, there's one way to rapidly accumulate the miles you'll need for this trip.

While many people take advantage of this rule in order to spend a few days in the gateway city itself, the reality is you can stretch a stopover out to last much, much longer.

This same strategy can be applied to any AA North American Gateway City, so creating a stopover in Miami or elsewhere and catching a cheap cash flight to Jacksonville would allow you to later enjoy a «free» one - way from that gateway city to a destination in the Caribbean, somewhere in Canada, across the country or pretty much anywhere else your imagine can take you.

Because we're taking advantage of United's open jaw rules and want to use our one possible stopover in Tokyo, it makes far more sense to find our own way to Ho Chi Minh than to use the stopover in Bangkok with a terminal destination of Ho Chi Minh.

You can still take advantage of a free stopover even though this award is close to home.

This is also in line with Donna's goal to fly business class or first class as much as possible on this trip, as a business / first award booking with a stopover in Luxembourg takes no more points than a direct flight back to Chicago would entail.

First, the stopover must take place in the same region as your destination, which can not be the same region as your origin.

An award flight booked with Alaska loyalty program miles wouldn't be complete if you didn't include a stopover, so take some time to explore Dubai before continuing to New Delhi or Mumbai.

TAP Portugal will even throw in a free bottle of famous Portuguese wine for those that take book a stopover on their ticket.

This is actually a really straightforward award booking, employing one of the most basic types of stopovers and then taking advantage of an opportunity to wipe out all the taxes and fees on the trip by using Arrival miles perfectly suited to the situation.

The Alaska Airlines card is great especially if you are able to structure your trips to take advantage of a stopover.

This many miles can take you many places, but using them wisely can lead to truly ridiculous value by taking advantage of the two important concepts we covered on Friday: stopovers and open - jaws.

American Airlines took away stopovers, but they at least had to be on international itineraries in the past.

I've also written about a nice opportunity to get free stopovers on domestic flights, making the Alaska Airlines award chart particularly valuable: How to Book Awards on Emirates with Alaska Airlines Miles Alaska Airlines Awards: Two Domestic One Ways for the Price of One It does take 90,000 miles each way to fly First Class, however, and the big downside is that Alaska... [Read more...]

You'll find lots of tips and hacks to not only save money, but also to take advantage of free stopovers and other lesser - known tricks, with advice on which programs to use for your desired flight itineraries and destinations.

I recently took a short trip to Copenhagen, with a stopover in Reykjavik.

Washington provides the ideal example, where one could take 1 stopover in «Washington» (IAD or DCA airports interchangeably) and 1 stopover in «Baltimore» (BWI Airport), since all of these airports serve the Washington area well, even though BWI is considered a different city

Right now, we can take advantage of US Airways miles when we want to take advantage of generous routing rules with a stopover.

When the Excursionist Perk takes hold, your stopovers will not be allowed to be in the zone that your travel originates in, and round - trip travel must end in the same zone where it started.

Additionally, you can book a stopover, an open - jaw, and / or include other partners in the booking to really take your trip to the next level.

Even if you just take the free stopover from IcelandAir for a day, the blue lagoon thermal pools and hotel with observatory are right by the airport.

This makes it easy to take a day trip from the populous city of Queenstown, or a quick stopover if you make your base in Te Anau.

Before arriving at their destination, travelers can take advantage of the option to save on airfare and spend extra time in eligible stopover cities and villages.

The next time you book a flight with points / miles, make sure you take advantage or free stopovers and / or open jaws and enjoy multiple destinations for the price of one.

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