Sentences with phrase «to sell miles»

In perspective, most airlines sell miles for 1.7 - 2.5 cents / mile.

In perspective, most airlines sell miles for 1.7 - 2.5 cents / mile.

This means if you've ever sold your miles, it is considered taxable income.

However, the program frequently also sells its miles for cheap.

When you do choose to redeem them, the article states that the airlines are making an estimated 3 times the amount they originally sold those miles and points for.

Maybe the airlines are catching onto this money - earning trend of selling miles and points.

Other airlines don't sell their miles (typically) this cheaply.

Plenty of airlines will sell you miles at high prices.

In addition, it is possible to sell your miles for cash.

One way that airlines sell miles is through shopping partnerships.

The current offer is tiered so you'll only earn the full 40 % bonus if you purchase upwards of 40,000 Alaska Miles.Alaska Mileage plan sells miles in a slightly different way to a lot of its counterparts in that, although you're limited to buying 60,000 miles per transaction (excluding the bonus), you can perform as many transactions as you like.

Despite the fact that this is one of the cheapest rates we've seen American sell miles recently I still wouldn't buy any miles speculatively — there's no guarantee that SAAver awards will be released and there's no guarantee that American won't reprice the award charts before you get to use the miles (I still think we'll see a devaluation when Premium Economy awards become available).

Avianca's LifeMiles program is a popular option for booking Star Alliance flights because they have no fuel surcharges, decent award rates, and they often sell miles cheaply.

The math on last month's promotion meant that United was effectively selling miles at a cost of...

Buying and selling miles from third parties is against most airlines» mileage policies.

Near the end of that post I wrote «consider that airlines and hotels often sell their miles / points at steep discounts, which would allow you to essentially buy these same flights / hotels at a deeply discounted cost.»

Would you believe that some airlines make as much money selling miles to credit card companies as they do selling seats to passengers?

Alaska runs frequent bonus miles promotions when selling their miles.

On top of that, Winship says, most frequent flier seats are seats that would not have sold, so they would have flown empty anyway, making selling miles at inflated prices even more lucrative for air carriers.

Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan is currently selling miles (through a targeted offer) with a bonus of up to 40 % which sees miles valued at a little over 2.11 cents each — that opens up some very good value redemptions on the likes of Cathay Pacific and JAL.

With this current deal from US Airways, they are technically selling the miles to me at 3.5 cents / each, then giving me a 90 % bonus, which will drop the cost of the miles down to about 1.8 cents each.

United Airlines typically sells its miles for about 3 cents each, but by taking advantage of two promotions from Choice Hotels, it's possible to bring that down by over half, to 1.18 cents each.

Alaska Airlines routinely sells miles for about 2 cents each ($ 200 for 10,000 or $ 100 for 5,000) during the booking process regardless of distance.

As Delta sells miles to partners, including alliance and codeshare partners, they're putting a premium on the price of MQMs.

At the moment Alaska is selling miles with a 40 % bonus, which is an opportunity to pick them up for ~ 2.11 cents each.

American is running a special on selling miles until Jan 4 for up to 265,000 miles (150,000 base + 115,000 bonus) for over $ 4,400.

When Alaska sells miles they typically offer a 35 - 40 % bonus, so the 40 % bonus is typically as good as it gets.

Meanwhile, American now sells miles directly, so should be eligible for bonus spend.»

Avianca's LifeMiles program has been selling miles in ever increasing quantities recently and, while its very tempting to snap up miles at a cheap rate when you can, there's a reason why I'm not ready to dive in just yet.

You will pay $ 4,786.88 for 250,000 miles (includes 100,000 bonus miles) This equates to about 1.91 cents / mile — the cheapest American Airlines has ever sold the miles.

It's almost like airlines make more money by selling miles than having people book airfares with them!

Or maybe they'll sell miles cheaply like LifeMiles and US Airways have.

US Airways is transfer partners with Starwood Preferred Guest and also frequently sells miles for under 1.5 cents each, so this is potentially an $ 1,800 first class ticket to Asia.

Yes, you could argue that we don't know when or if American will sell miles as low as 1.72 cents again....