↓ It's Not Just What You Do, It's How You Say It American Airlines announced a new five -
tier award chart, eliminated stopovers on award flights and discontinued oneworld Explorer awards in early April with no advance notice to members.
With a 5 -
tier award chart (up from 3), earning miles based on your airfare price, and a very broken website I can understand people's frustration with Delta.
Delta then went to revenue - based mileage - earning for flights and then announced a new five -
tier award chart both to begin in 2015.
Overall, the changes are not completely horrible, but the introduction of a 5
tier award chart system and a mystery category is not a welcome change to the AAdvantage program.
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Delta has announced that it is moving to a new, five -
tier award chart in 2015.
But in recent years, many mileage programs have introduced rule changes,
tiered award charts and a la carte fees that have shifted the options.
Not exact matches
Similar to an
award chart, they have redemptions based on pricing
tiers.
Similar to an
award chart, they have redemptions based on pricing
tiers.
Over 200 properties are moving up in the
award chart, with almost 70 of them jumping to Carlson's top -
tier Category 7, including many European Radisson Blu properties.
Japan Airlines» Mileage Bank program uses a distance - based
award chart which is broken into
tiers based on your flight miles.
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.
This
award chart is broken into
tiers based on how many miles you're flying.
Ritz - Carlton's
award chart has five
tiers, with nightly rates running from 30,000 to 70,000 points.
For partner
awards, Japan Airlines uses a distance - based
award chart that is divided into
tiers based on the number of flight miles.
If he had flown out of San Francisco instead, he would bounce up to the next
tier (you can see the
award chart in the figure below).
The Japan Airlines Mileage Bank program uses a distance - based
award chart, which is broken into
tiers based on how many miles you're flying.
Delta is the only carrier making significant changes to its
award chart in 2015, expanding from a three -
tier structure to one with five
tiers.
I'm in the process of updating my hotel elite status comparison
chart, and as part of that process I need to collect information on the different
award tiers and the points earned with each stay.
I've already gone over the major devaluations that will happen, I've discussed the
award chart changes, I've shown how the new earning rates will affect top -
tier AAdvantage members quite badly and I've called out American Airlines for announcing things without thinking things through or without having all the answers to inevitable questions... but that's really just me letting off steam and, hopefully, providing readers with a few facts here and there as well.
The Ritz - Carlton
award chart is perfectly linear — the cost of an
award night goes up in cost by 10,000 points per
tier — so there are no specific category moves which would see a property's
award cost go up or down by more than another's.
Unlike the other programs we have looked at so far, Japan Airlines uses a distance - based
award chart that is broken into
tiers.
In the past the AAdvantage program has offered some of the more generous
award charts in the US Airline industry, the top -
tier benefits were easily the best out of any US airline (I would argue they were the best in the world),
awards weren't especially hard to come by, upgrades were plentiful and, compared to its peers, AAdvantage was a pretty great program in which to earn miles and status... especially if you traveled a lot.
Before Delta did away with
award charts, they introduced five
tiers of
awards for coach and first class / Delta One on flights they operated.
The differences between these
tiers can vary dramatically and it's not like the marginal difference you might find in other
award charts that differentiate between «peak» and «off - peak»
awards.
Delta's new
award chart (which was previously announced) goes from a three
tier system to five different
tiers of mileage levels.
The Marriott Rewards
award chart is hard to defend, but I don't think it really is that out of the ordinary, especially when you consider that top
tier Platinum members earn a 50 % bonus on points for stays, and if you pay for your stay with your Marriott Rewards Premier card, you get another 5 points per dollar.
The new
award chart introduces a five
tier structure similar to Delta Airlines, the difference is that milesAAver
awards are not increasing in price and off peak
award pricing for travel will remain available throughout different times of the year in the economy class cabin.
Now, the Delta SkyMiles
Award Chart (bel0w) shows international flights, because the prices (still
tiered) are still by region.
Since the first of the year Priority Club introduced a new 9 -
tier reward
chart, Starwood raised the price of cash and points
awards, Marriott introduced a new more expensive
award tier and a points price increase for 36 % of their properties.
Below is the Starwood
Award chart with various award tier Ho
Award chart with various
award tier Ho
award tier Hotels.
Hyatt is adding a new
tier to their
award chart and moving their most aspirational properties up.