As you get
ticket class bonuses which vary from airline to airline it is not so easy to ascertain if you have been credited the right number of miles.
Not exact matches
Bonus: purchase a first - or business -
class ticket and Emirates picks you up in New York City in a town car — a hidden luxury for all who have traversed city airports in rush - hour traffic.
This deserves a whole series of posts to itself so I won't go into too much detail, but using credit card
bonuses and being flexible with my dates allowed me and my wife to get round trip first
class tickets from Baltimore to Portland, Oregon for taxes only.
However, you'd need to spend only $ 100,000 on the American Express SPG credit card to earn 125,000 American Airlines miles which can be redeemed for a First
Class ticket to Europe after accounting for the 25 % transfer
bonus.
I used my
bonus BA miles to book a friend a first
class ticket to visit me from Maryland, flying on US Airways.
With award
tickets starting at 4,000 - 4,500 Avios in economy or 7,750 - 9,000 Avios in business
class for any flight less than 651 miles you'd be able to book 22 flights with that 100,000 point
bonus.
That's at least 100,000
bonus SkyMiles in a year for this amount of spend on the Delta Reserve ® Credit Card from American Express, which is at least one international First
Class ticket, or a couple of domestic round - trip flights.
You will get 6x
bonus points for using your card, another 3x
bonus points for being a frequent flyer member, and then 3x - 5x points (depending on fare
class) for purchasing your
tickets through jetblue.com.
The business card has a 35 % point
bonus rebate when used through the travel portal for your selected airline
tickets and
tickets for all business and first
class.
There's supposed to be a good
bonus for Private Clients and you can get almost enough for a one - way business
class ticket to India from it.»
What I like about the below is that one credit card
bonus would give you enough award miles to book a one - way
ticket in business
class (or round - trip in economy).
But while there are lots of great ways to earn
bonus miles, Etihad has squashed one of our favorite benefits on first
class award
tickets.
PPS Club, KrisFlyer Elite Gold and Elite Silver members enjoy a 25 % tier
bonus on the actual miles flown (not applicable to Economy
Class tickets in G, K, N, Q, V or L booking
classes).
That's at least 100,000
bonus SkyMiles in a year for this amount of spend on the Delta Reserve ® Credit Card from American Express, which is at least one international First
Class ticket, or a couple of domestic round - trip flights.
The MQDs you will earn when traveling on select partner marketed flights not
ticketed through Delta (i.e. the
ticket number does not start with «006») as well as when traveling on «exception fares» (such as consolidator, cruise, vacation packages, inclusive tour and other
tickets) will be equal to one - fifth of the base miles and
Class Bonus miles (when applicable) earned on the itinerary.
For travel
ticketed and marketed by Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 partner airlines MQDs will be equal to one - fifth of the base miles and
Class Bonus miles (when applicable) earned on the itinerary.
Flying far distances, US Airways is much cheaper than Delta (first
class is 30k miles cheaper, per
ticket), along with the transfer ratio with the current
bonuses makes it about 1:0.9, is definitely isn't the best.
I could wait for a Delta / American Express transfer
bonus, but still the price in
tickets for First
Class is much more.
Think about this: If you purchase 60,000 miles - plus the 60,000
bonus - for a total of 120,000 United miles, you'd have enough miles for a Business
Class roundtrip
ticket to Europe, which normally costs between $ 6,000 to over $ 10,000.
These charts compare fare
class bonuses, and in American's case that is built into the higher
ticket price.
In addition, we're extending our 2015 AAdvantage
bonus miles promotion that allows you to earn more
bonus miles when you purchase and fly on a First or Business
Class ticket on American and select airlines.
Whenever they fly with Emirates, your account will be credited with 20 % of the base Skywards Miles value of their
ticket, plus 20 % of any Business
Class or First
Class bonuses.
You will pay $ 2,884.13 for 135,000 miles (includes 35,000
bonus miles + 10 % discount) This equates to 2.13 cents / mile and 135K miles is enough for a round trip business
class ticket to India.
These include a higher tier
bonus for their top elite members (MVP Gold 75K), new and higher fare
class multipliers for some of their more expensive
tickets, and a modified earnings table that applies when flying on their partner, Delta Air Lines.
The
ticket I booked to China with Hainan is
ticketed in «R»
class which per the Alaska Airline Mileage plan page earns 100 % elite qualify
bonus miles, on top of the 125 % redeemable miles I'll earn for being Alaska Airline MVP Gold 75k!
Even when the price still seems a little high, don't forget about the numerous
bonuses you can earn when you actually pay for a business
class ticket instead of redeeming miles.
This, coupled with their massive sign - up
bonuses, makes a business
class or first
class award
ticket a reality for most.
Just getting one of those cards can earn you enough miles to cover your trip in economy and getting the
bonuses from a couple of them can get you really close to having a business
class ticket waiting to take you to Israel.
Economy
class tickets (Y, M, M, K, and N fare
classes) will earn a 25 %
bonus.
Last year Delta introduced a revenue component to its SkyMiles program, which means that higher - paying passengers earn more miles, so the more you pay for your
tickets, the more
bonus miles you get (premium economy, business, and first
class tickets will earn more miles than discount economy).
50,000 Avios isn't a bad sign - up
bonus by itself, but 75,000 Avios is much more exciting and could cover a roundtrip business
class ticket to Europe.
with the sign up
bonus itself, you can get a one way economy
ticket from / to India or will get close to a one - way business
class award.
For each alternative presented, we will tell you which card to use, any relevant
bonus categories in which to do the spending, which program with whom to book the award
ticket, and the total amount of spend required for a round trip business
class award.
Mixed -
class travel is allowed, with
Bonus Asia Miles calculated to the
ticket class of each sector.
With award
tickets starting at 4,000 - 4,500 Avios in economy or 7,750 - 9,000 Avios in business
class for any flight less than 651 miles you'd be able to book 22 flights with that 100,000 point
bonus.
The only way to earn 100 % of miles flown is to buy a more expensive economy
ticket or a business or first
class ticket which will earn both base miles plus a
bonus.
In my case a business
class flight — delta
ticket class Z (bsuiness) on an alitalia operated flight was credited with a 50 %
bonus and listed as a
class E
ticket on my statement.
Elite miles are derived from the actual miles flown, plus any applicable booking
class bonuses earned on
tickets that are eligible to earn miles.
I threw away all my mileage cards a while ago and focus on cash back now 2 % minimum, 3 - 5 % on all
bonus category spend I can buy my own
tickets in bz
class and get 2x miles for the money
In fact,
bonus credit card offers have helped me accumulate the one million miles required for me to redeem four Business
Class Round - the - World
tickets worth US$ 54,000 for FREE on Star Alliance in 2016.
It seems like the best deal is using Delta miles to book Virgin Atlantic Upper
Class tickets with significantly discounted taxes and fees, or using Virgin miles to book Delta
tickets with lower taxes and fees than Virgin
tickets would cost you — which could make sense if there are Amex - Virgin transfer
bonuses and no Delta ones come up.
One trip to Asia in the right cabin
class can earn you one free domestic
ticket, as long as you register to earn the
bonus.
An economy
class award
ticket costs 60,000 Delta Skymiles, which I can manufacture at a cost of $ 400 using the American Express Delta Platinum (you only need to manufacture $ 50,000 in spending since you'll receive 10,000
bonus miles at the $ 25,000 and $ 50,000 spend levels, for a total of 70,000 Skymiles after $ 50,000 in spending).
While you are still getting a lousy return, you will at least get into the first
class fare code, meaning that you will be entitled to any
bonuses that you would have received if you had paid cash for the
ticket.
Over a year ago when I got the Alaska Air Visa Signature Visa with a smaller
bonus, the reason to get it was for the domestic first
class companion
ticket to Hawaii.
In addition to the sign up
bonus, you earn three Avios for every dollar spent on BA, and a free companion
ticket (any
class) when you spend at least $ 30,000 in a year.
But I am currently trying to meet the minimum spending requirement on the Bank of America Asiana card (who's sign up
bonus will get me another Business
Class ticket between Buenos Aires and the United States) and the card doesn't come with such benefits.