The phrase
"to avoid fuel surcharges" means taking actions to not have to pay additional fees related to the cost of fuel when buying certain products or services.
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You can try
avoiding those fuel surcharges by using your Lufthansa miles on flights within North America, South America, flights on U.S. Airways (if you book before they officially switch alliances... which happens at the end of the month) and flights on Air New Zealand (if you can find the availability.)
If you want to
avoid fuel surcharges at all costs, it may be better to just use SkyMiles to fly to your destination, and pay for your own flight back.
Aeroplan is great because you can book one way awards,
avoid fuel surcharges on airlines like United and Singapore Airlines, they have one of the best search engines (although it can be a bit slow), and a lot of their redemption rates for business class are pretty reasonable.
Award seats aren't as cheap as they were a few years ago, but, you can
still avoid the fuel surcharge that British Airways will charge for their long - haul flights.
And not all programs have fuel surcharges, just as most North American programs don't add them to awards on most partners, South American programs are a place to go to
avoid fuel surcharges too.
Not to mention, within the Americas you can
avoid fuel surcharges by using your British Airways Avios for an American Airlines flight.
If you want to
avoid fuel surcharges at all costs, you may want to find another travel program (such as United Airlines) that never levees a fuel surcharge.
Because you can transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to United Airlines, those points are relatively easy to earn, and they're the best airline
for avoiding fuel surcharges.
If I really wanted to
avoid fuel surcharges on an award then the drop in points when I transfer from Singapore Airlines to Virgin Australia might make sense in some circumstances where Singapore imposed high fuel surcharges.
Of course you can
avoid fuel surcharges altogether with Avios by flying on carriers that have no fuel surcharges as covered in this recent post, but Iberia has very good availability and it's always good to have another option.
Korean air offers great award redemptions with plenty of ability to
avoid fuel surcharges.
A great way to
avoid fuel surcharges is to use Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles to fly on a Star Alliance Airline like United.
So, I was hoping I could change my SWISS First award to a Lufthansa Business award, get Aeroplan miles refunded for the difference, and
avoid fuel surcharges.
A great way to
avoid fuel surcharges is to use Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles to fly on a Star Alliance Airline like United.
Korean air offers great award redemptions with plenty of ability to
avoid fuel surcharges.
So with the Boston to Dublin example we're better off using 25,000 Avios roundtrip than 60,000 United miles roundtrip (if we can find a flight that helps
us avoid fuel surcharges.)
If you want to
avoid fuel surcharges at all costs, you may want to find another travel program (such as United Airlines) that never levees a fuel surcharge.
Asiana Club miles offer some of the best value among Star Alliance carriers on flights to Europe, particularly if
you avoid fuel surcharges by flying on United or Air Canada.
Being able to book one way awards makes it a lot easier to put those 60,000 miles to use and
avoiding fuel surcharges is nice, too.
With Flying Blue miles you can book SkyTeam flights, like those on Delta (
avoid fuel surcharges), Air France, Alitalia.
The real trick though is
avoiding the fuel surcharges that some carriers add to award tickets.
You can use your miles on 20 partner airlines, and Delta not only allows one - way travel for half the miles, but also an open jaw, which you can use to
avoid fuel surcharges if your flight home originates in Europe.
This itinerary is a great way to maximize your miles and minimize paying taxes on fees, and if you fly on Polis LOT you can
avoid all fuel surcharges!
Go with UA or LifeMiles to
avoid a fuel surcharge to keep your costs low.
The first thing to look at when redeeming Aeroplan miles is
avoiding fuel surcharges.
Since the goal of MTH is to travel for next - to - nothing, you want to
avoid fuel surcharges.
Star Alliance airlines on a partner award: use United and Air Canada to
avoid fuel surcharges.
The strategy for Flying Blue is the same for the previous airlines in terms of
avoiding fuel surcharges.
Try to
avoid fuel surcharges, which often make award flights almost as expensive as buying the ticket retail
Using AA miles you'll want to focus on other oneworld partners instead of BA to
avoid the fuel surcharges.
If you want to book a complex itinerary though on one of the Lufthansa Star Alliance partners with stopovers and open jaws, or if you are looking for a flight on a specific carrier to minimize or
avoid fuel surcharges, you might want to find the flights you need first before calling Lufthansa.
However, there's a workaround for
avoiding fuel surcharges (for those partner carriers on which they're ordinarily imposed) on the return portion of an award ticket, which I'll explain in the form of an example.