These routes still only cost 105,000 Japan Airlines miles for a round -
trip first class award ticket, but you'll get hit with over $ 1,000 in taxes and fees.
The 56.3 % increase in miles needed for a First Class redemption between Europe and the Middle East / Indian Subcontinent is a hammer blow to anyone wanting to book Etihad's First Class cabin and, at 230,000 AAdvantage miles for a round
trip First Class award to Australia on Qatar Airways, that award just became a whole lot harder to achieve.
While Japan Airlines will require fewer miles, a round -
trip first class award from the U.S. to Dubai will include up to about $ 1,716 in taxes and fees.
You can book a round -
trip first class award for 110,000 Flying Club miles from the west coast and 120,000 from the east coast and the central U.S.
These fuel surcharges can be several hundred dollars, and when added to the mandatory taxes (even United charges those) you might pay as much as $ 1,000 for your round -
trip first class award.
The taxes and fees on a round -
trip first class award ticket will be roughly $ 700 but for two 10 - hour flights in first class, that's not bad at all.
You can book a round -
trip first class award for 110,000 Flying Club miles from the west coast and 120,000 from the east coast and the central U.S.
From Chicago or New York City (JFK), you will need 160,000 Avios to book round -
trip first class awards on Britsh Airways; from many other U.S. cities, you'll need 200,000 Avios.
Not exact matches
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First Day Rental, Car Rental Allowance, and
Trip Interruption Benefits * Roadside Assistance * Transferable Warranty * Limited Warranty: 3 Month / 3, 000 Mile (whichever comes
first) after new car warranty expires or from certified purchase date * Warranty Deductible: $ 100 Awards: * JD Power Initial Quality Study (IQS) * 2017 KBB.com Best Buy Awards * 2017 KBB.com 10 Favorite New - for - 2017 Cars * 2017 KBB.com 12 Best Family Cars Reviews: * Easy to transform from people hauler to cargo hauler; upscale interior; roomy third - row seat; many convenience and luxury - based features available; class - exclusive hybrid engine op
first) after new car warranty expires or from certified purchase date * Warranty Deductible: $ 100
Awards: * JD Power Initial Quality Study (IQS) * 2017 KBB.com Best Buy
Awards * 2017 KBB.com 10 Favorite New - for - 2017 Cars * 2017 KBB.com 12 Best Family Cars Reviews: * Easy to transform from people hauler to cargo hauler; upscale interior; roomy third - row seat; many convenience and luxury - based features available;
class - exclusive hybrid engine option.
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first) from original in - service date * Warranty Deductible: $ 100 * Roadside Assistance * 125 Point Inspection * Limited Warranty: 3 Month / 3, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) after new car warranty expires or from certified purchase date * Includes First Day Rental, Car Rental Allowance, and Trip Interruption Benefits Awards: * JD Power Initial Quality Study (IQS) * 2017 KBB.com 10 Favorite New - for - 2017 Cars * 2017 KBB.com Best Buy Awards * 2017 KBB.com 12 Best Family Cars Reviews: * Easy to transform from people hauler to cargo hauler; upscale interior; roomy third - row seat; many convenience and luxury - based features available; class - exclusive hybrid engine op
first) from original in - service date * Warranty Deductible: $ 100 * Roadside Assistance * 125 Point Inspection * Limited Warranty: 3 Month / 3, 000 Mile (whichever comes
first) after new car warranty expires or from certified purchase date * Includes First Day Rental, Car Rental Allowance, and Trip Interruption Benefits Awards: * JD Power Initial Quality Study (IQS) * 2017 KBB.com 10 Favorite New - for - 2017 Cars * 2017 KBB.com Best Buy Awards * 2017 KBB.com 12 Best Family Cars Reviews: * Easy to transform from people hauler to cargo hauler; upscale interior; roomy third - row seat; many convenience and luxury - based features available; class - exclusive hybrid engine op
first) after new car warranty expires or from certified purchase date * Includes
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First Day Rental, Car Rental Allowance, and
Trip Interruption Benefits
Awards: * JD Power Initial Quality Study (IQS) * 2017 KBB.com 10 Favorite New - for - 2017 Cars * 2017 KBB.com Best Buy
Awards * 2017 KBB.com 12 Best Family Cars Reviews: * Easy to transform from people hauler to cargo hauler; upscale interior; roomy third - row seat; many convenience and luxury - based features available;
class - exclusive hybrid engine option.
On an American Airlines flight, business
class and
first class award bookings will include about $ 280 in taxes and fees for a round -
trip ticket.
-- You can transfer your UR points to Korean SKYPASS miles, where you can book
awards to Hawaii on Delta for just 25,000 miles round -
trip in economy or 40,000 miles in
first class.
Thanks to four credit card applications, we were able to book two
first -
class round -
trip award tickets on Cathay Pacific to Bali, via Hong Kong, for this past summer.
When the kids are a bit older, you might consider breaking up the
trip with 1 stop; check out our tips in http://travelsort.com/blog/tips-for-booking-
award-tickets-to-africa A really great
award would be biz or
first class on Cathay, flying to Johannesburg via Hong Kong using Alaska miles when the kids are older.
First class using United's miles is 80,000 miles round -
trip on a two - cabin plane under the new
award chart.
This is also in line with Donna's goal to fly business
class or
first class as much as possible on this
trip, as a business /
first award booking with a stopover in Luxembourg takes no more points than a direct flight back to Chicago would entail.
You can check out this
first class product on this route for 75,000 Flying Club miles round -
trip while a one - way
award ticket would cost 37,500 miles.
Notice that there are no AAnytime
awards available, but there is a purple button for
first class awards since this
trip involves an international journey with a larger aircraft that has both business and
first class cabins.
Platinum: Additional unlimited complimentary round -
trip upgrades (transferable to
Award Nominees) on Thai Airways upon each accumulation of 50,000 miles for flights on Thai Airways in Royal
First Class or Royal Silk
Class.
Discounted
first class awards to Mexico are actually going down by 5,000 miles round -
trip.
If you are a frequent traveler, both the number of airlines and their quality will be important: You will not only be able to earn miles on a large number of flights, you will also have access to some of the best airlines for aspirational
award travel — a
trip in Singapore Airlines or Lufthansa
First Class will make any honeymoon very special!
They don't let you book
First Class awards with partners at all, they rarely have low - level
award availability (and I think this might get worse after the recent devaluation), you can only redeem round
trip flights (one - ways are coming in 2015 though), and in general their miles are much harder to use than those of other programs.
Round
trip business and
first class awards offer savings of 25K to 120K miles.
Had I gone ahead and booked the SWISS
First Class award I would have ended up with 110,000 miles stuck in an Aeroplan account that may or may not have been any use when it comes to booking flights for the 2019
trip.
The timing of the invite perfectly coincided with TAM's last
first class flights (the airline discontinued First Class as of November 1st), therefore I booked my award trip using US Airways miles for 120,000 miles in First class and routed myself from Mexico City to Kuala Lumpur via Miami, Sao Paulo and P
first class flights (the airline discontinued First Class as of November 1st), therefore I booked my award trip using US Airways miles for 120,000 miles in First class and routed myself from Mexico City to Kuala Lumpur via Miami, Sao Paulo and P
class flights (the airline discontinued
First Class as of November 1st), therefore I booked my award trip using US Airways miles for 120,000 miles in First class and routed myself from Mexico City to Kuala Lumpur via Miami, Sao Paulo and P
First Class as of November 1st), therefore I booked my award trip using US Airways miles for 120,000 miles in First class and routed myself from Mexico City to Kuala Lumpur via Miami, Sao Paulo and P
Class as of November 1st), therefore I booked my
award trip using US Airways miles for 120,000 miles in
First class and routed myself from Mexico City to Kuala Lumpur via Miami, Sao Paulo and P
First class and routed myself from Mexico City to Kuala Lumpur via Miami, Sao Paulo and P
class and routed myself from Mexico City to Kuala Lumpur via Miami, Sao Paulo and Paris.
I found plenty of dates during the summer where
first -
class awards from Denver to Maui cost 165,000 miles round -
trip!
This allows you to book
award seats on Delta for just 25,000 SkyPass miles round -
trip in economy, and a mere 45,000 miles in
first class.
To put this value in perspective, United charges 45,000 miles for a round -
trip economy -
class award to Hawaii and 80,000 miles for
first class, while American charges 45,000 miles for economy and 80,000 miles for
first.
Since Qatar's new product is going to be as nice as a
first -
class product, you may want to book this product and save an incredible 90,000 miles for a round
trip ticket versus a
first -
class award.
A one - way Business
Class award between North America and Europe costs 50,000 miles while a
First Class award for the same
trip costs 62,500 miles....
On an American Airlines flight, business
class and
first class award bookings will include about $ 280 in taxes and fees for a round -
trip ticket.
I had my work cut out for me when I tried to book three round -
trip,
first -
class awards to Sydney this past December.
Of course, as I discussed in my
first article on travel hacking theory, I do value that
award trip at more than $ 790, in fact, I value it at about $ 1,300, since that's what I'd typically pay for an economy
class ticket to Europe.
Although Delta prices its lowest
award flights to Hawaii at 45,000 for roundtrip in economy and 90,000 for round -
trip in
first class, you can book the exact same Delta flights using 25,000 Korean Air SKYPASS miles in economy and 45,000 Korean Air SKYPASS miles in
first class.
A round -
trip first -
class Cathay Pacific
award from the United States to Bali costs 220,000 AAdvantage miles.
An interesting option to transfer your points to is Hawaiian, which offers
award flights starting at 25,000 miles round -
trip in economy
class and 80,000 in
first class.
It offers round -
trip award to Hawaii on the same flights, but for only 35,000 miles in economy and 60,000 miles in
first class, round -
trip.
A round -
trip ticket in
first class normally costs $ 14,833 but can be booked as an
award for 140,000 miles.
Elimination of 15 % online booking discount: The online booking discount of 15 % for all SQ reward flights booked through their web site made
award trips great value — I was able to book my
First Class flight from Manila to Europe for only 72,250 miles one - way — using United MileagePlus miles for the same
trip would have cost 115,000 miles!
A round -
trip award in business
class is 90,000 miles; it costs 125,000 miles round -
trip in
first class.
Once again, you can transfer your American Express Membership Rewards points over to Virgin Atlantic to spend on a round
trip award on ANA in
First Class with a 30 % bonus on the transferred points.
For example, you can transfer your points to United, which offers round -
trip awards to Costa Rica for 35,000 miles in economy and 60,000 miles in
first class.
We used PointsPros to book a
first class, Star Alliance
award trip from the West Coast to India, with stop overs in Europe.
Suppose I book a round
trip award in business, and I change the return segment to lufthansa
first, then do I have to pay the
first class points value just for the return segment or do i have to pay itfor the entire round
trip ticket?
Meanwhile, if you're redeeming from JAL, a round -
trip first -
class award between New York and Milan will run you just 100,000 miles round -
trip.
I was up to the challenge of finding the perfect
award redemption and I knew this
trip presented a great opportunity to try out some of the best business and
first class seats in the industry.
I consider a business or
first class award trip on Thai Airways an aspirational
award — better than anything I have seen on US carriers and some of the best in the world.
You can transfer your points to United, which offers round -
trip awards to Singapore for 80,000 miles in economy and 140,000 miles in
first class.
This doesn't help for advance planning but the approach is to plan your
trip with business
class awards and be prepared to pay a change fee if you'd like to travel in
first and a given Cathay Pacific flight opens in
first class.
For those planning a
trip in the next year or so, AAdvantage miles are currently great for Cathay Pacific
First Class, Cathay Pacific Business
Class, Qantas
First Class, Etihad
First Class, and other international
awards, at least if you don't transit a third region that would break your
award into two separate
awards.