The above two itineraries are great examples of saving miles and seeing two cities for a lower mileage requirement
than the award chart would make you think.
Not exact matches
United should change its mileage
award chart to include Hong Kong and Macau in North Asia, along with Taiwan and China, rather
than its current category of South China.
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Valuation: ANA announced last year that it would transition to a zone - based
award chart; however, the new system launched in April ended up being less rewarding
than what was originally presented.
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.
Why # 10: A few reasons I don't rank this card higher, even though you can earn up to 100K Avios as a signup bonus and the card is not subject to Chase 5/24, are that $ 10K spend is required to earn 75K, $ 20K is required to earn the full 100K bonus, and I find Avios much less valuable
than they used to be, due to the various
award chart devaluations over the past few years.
The
award chart for flying between continents may be a little bit more pricey
than other travel programs, but the stopovers could be well worth it.
It also has two
award charts: one if you're just flying one carrier, and a oneworld multi-carrier
award chart if you want to fly more
than one carrier.
Singapore Airlines has an entirely separate
award chart for flights on Virgin Atlantic and requires few miles
than using your Singapore miles on Star Alliance flights.
Hotel
award charts are subject to regular «enhancements» (see: devaluations), as such rather
than posting the
award charts here we've provided you with direct links to all of these
charts on the official websites.
And oddly enough, the needlessly complicated 5 - tier Delta
award chart (which of course doesn't actually exist, wink, wink) means that when lowest - level redemptions aren't available on any airline and you're considering a more expensive
award, Delta may actually be cheaper
than the others thanks to all their intermediate
award tiers.
The
award chart also includes a route between North America and Australia / New Zealand, which is a bit more costly
than the option to fly from Honolulu.
Rather
than having a standard region to region
chart, Alaska Mileage Plan has specific
award prices for individual airlines.
For ClassicFlight
awards, Air Canada's
award chart is usually better
than many of its partners, including United, but the airline often passes on fuel surcharges levied by partners.
Stick to ClassicFlight
awards priced according to the
award chart, rather
than demand - based Market Fare
awards
Once American Airlines devalues their
award chart on March 22 you'll find that the cost of many tickets becomes less
than affordable.
No economy booking is more expensive in miles on Delta's
award chart than US to Southwest Pacific, the region in which Delta places Australian destinations.
That's because Korean, unlike most other airline
award charts, considers Hawaii one of the U.S. states, rather
than a separate region.
This trick works because British Airways uses a wholly different
award chart than American does.
Award chart devaluations are never fun and usually hurt a lot more
than this one.
This is different
than the region - based
award chart for their partnership with American Airlines.
A couple final points to keep in mind with Cathay Pacific Asia Miles are that they utilize a distance - based
award chart and one - way
awards require more
than half has many miles as a round - trip
award ticket.
While
award space on these six partner airlines can be found online, keep in mind that they still fall under a different
award chart than flights on Japan Airlines.
To redeem this
award, use the first
chart and find flights with one - way flight distances less
than 4,800 miles (falling into Zone 5).
To redeem this flight
award, you must use the third
award chart and calculate a one - way flight distance less
than 4,800 miles to be within Zone 5.
For Emirates
award flights, you should reference the first
award chart; since the one - way distance is less
than 7,000 flown miles, Zone 7 pricing applies.
If you are taking a short round - trip flight that is less
than 600 miles flown one - way on American Airlines, you will only have to pay 16,000 points for a round - trip flight according to the first
award chart.
The
award chart is more or less distance - based, with East Coast cities requiring fewer miles
than West Coast cities.
With the Star Alliance
award chart, you would now pay 97,500 miles rather
than the 118,000 miles required by the
award chart for Singapore - only routes.
It also has two
award charts: one if you're just flying one carrier, and a oneworld multi-carrier
award chart if you want to fly more
than one carrier.
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.
With Everyday
Awards, prices will not be higher
than the published prices on the Everyday
Award chart.
Pricing for Everyday
Awards varies from flight to flight, but will not be higher
than what is published on the Everyday
Award chart.
Only Delta and Alaska make sense right now if I were to switch my loyalty, but Delta's
award chart is even worse
than United's new one, while Alaska is primarily a domestic carrier.
American Airlines announced several sweeping changes to its loyalty program last year, including a devalued
award chart, fewer upgrades for elite members, and plans to begin
awarding miles on the basis of revenue — rather
than distance — sometime in 2016.
The British Airways
award chart is different
than American's.
Travel to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean is actually between 8 % and 14 % cheaper now
than it used to be under the old
award charts.
Thanks to their 2011
award chart «devaluation» that converted Avios into a distance - based redemption program, it's usually advantageous to book American Airlines, US Airways, and Alaska Airlines flights that are less
than 1,150 miles in each direction with Avios instead of the actual miles of the carrier.
The worst values with HawaiianMiles come when using those miles to book partners with disadvantageous
award charts, such as ANA, American Airlines and Korean Air, which charge significantly more miles for the same routes
than Hawaiian does.
As a result, one can't easily compare the
award charts of two different programs and say that one is «more expensive»
than another.
It helps me if I look at
award charts as a best - case scenario rather
than something I'm entitled to if I earn enough points.
Less
than a month ago, AAdvanatge has made several big changes to the
award chart.
Sometimes I can't catch a break - I take two days out to do something other
than watching what the various loyalty programs, airlines and hotel chains are doing and then Marriott goes and buys Starwood and American Airlines announces an enormous
award chart devaluation.
Here are a few sweet spots in this
award chart, if you have less
than 9,000 Etihad guest miles.
So even though you have followed all of United's routing rules, the
award will price out more expensive
than it should based on the
award chart.
A major annoyance is that Hilton won't let customers buy more
than 80,000 points and, if you take a look at the Hilton
award chart below......
Certain premium cabin flight segments may earn different
award miles and Premier qualifying credits
than those defined for your ticketed fare class in the
chart above (your fare class for each flight segment is displayed during booking and when viewing a ticketed itinerary on united.com).
This really reminds me of the Hilton devaluation in February and stings even more
than other airlines including Delta and Air France / KLM who have announced major
award chart mileage devaluations in the past several months.
Awards typically require a bit more miles
than the difference between one class and the next on the
award chart.
For the most part, it's similar if not identical to the old American Airlines
award chart that has since been devalued, meaning that it's often cheaper to use Etihad miles
than American Airlines miles for the exact same AA flights.