Not exact matches
ANA
uses different award charts when flying their own metal versus flying with an ANA
partner like United
Airlines.
The Ultimate Rewards points you earn through the Chase Sapphire Preferred ®, on the other hand, can be
used as statement credit, or traveled to a number of
different partner programs (including Marriott, Southwest
Airlines, and more).
These points can be
used to book travel through the UR portal, cash back, statement credit against previous card purchases, or even transferred to a number of
different airline and hotel
partners.
The highest value method of
using points is to transfer them to the American Express travel
partners, which include a number of
different airlines and hotels.
You can either find a
different flight,
use one of their
airline partners (if
using Avios to book an award), or
use the BA «stopover» feature, which allows you to connect to a final destination in a city in the UK.
For that reason, these are almost always the best cards when you are just starting as they allow you to accumulate points that can be
used to fly with tons of
different airlines thanks to their
airline transfer
partners.
If you never fly American
Airlines or its Oneworld alliance
partners, or if your hometown airport is a hub for a
different airline, then the above card wouldn't be a good choice for you since the rewards you're earning can only be
used to book on American or a
partner airline (Japan
Airlines, for example).
Sometimes the
airline that you make your award reservation with and the
partner airline use different PNR's to refer to your reservation.
This means that if you
used American
Airlines to connect between Los Angeles and Mexico City (from Edmonton), for example, you can't
use a
different partner airline connecting between these two cities on your way back.
In these cases, you would be better off
using miles from a
different Star Alliance
partner, or
using a
different airline entirely.
For each
partner, they
use a
different award chart, and one of their best offerings is with Brussels
Airlines.
It breaks down
different sweet spots with
different airlines and discusses
using miles to book on
partner airlines.
Instead of encouraging bad business practices, learn how to
use different airlines and their
partners to get where you want to go.
And that's to book British Airways awards (or their
partners like American
Airlines)
using a
different carrier, such as Iberia, a Spanish
airline.
Keep in mind activity for Flying Blue is
different than other
airlines; qualifying activity includes taking a flight with a Flying Blue
partner for credit or
using a co-branded credit card.
While I've
used SPG points to redeem for hotels, like the Westin in Cape Town, I put more value in SPG points for their transferability to so many
different airline partners.
These points can be
used to book travel through the UR portal, cash back, statement credit against previous card purchases, or even transferred to a number of
different airline and hotel
partners.
Often times, you may get a credit card for a specific
airline but intend on
using the miles earned from that card on a
different airline alliance
partner.
Lufthansa
uses two
different award charts: one for Lufthansa (and associated
airlines like Swiss) flights, and one for Star Alliance
partners, which is based on regions.
The
airline also
uses different region - based award charts for Star Alliance members and for each of its own
partners.
Points in the Starwood hotel's Preferred Guest program are widely considered to be among the most valuable points currencies available in part because they can be transferred to miles in 31
different airline programs and in turn,
used for award flights with all of these
airlines»
partners.
When you realize that most of those
airlines allow you to
use their miles to book award flights with at least a dozen
different partner carriers, you start to understand how this one credit card is the gateway to a staggering array of award travel opportunities.
ThankYou points are pretty versatile, since you can redeem them directly for travel or transfer them to several
different airline and hotel
partners, so today I want to help readers figure out how to
use these points by exploring what I think are the 10 best
uses for 50,000 ThankYou points.
Plus, note that this has very limited
use when booking with Iberia Avios since Iberia would flip to a
different award chart (the OneWorld chart I wrote about previously) when you include
partner airlines like American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qanta
airlines like American
Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qanta
Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, etc..
In these cases, LATAM prices each leg of the flight separately,
using two
different systems.If you are traveling to South America from somewhere in the U.S. that LATAM doesn't serve, you'll pay 70,000 kilometers for the LATAM leg, then an additional distance - based price on the segments with the
partner airlines.
If you can not find roundtrip availability for both ways on the same
airline, you could
use KLM / AirFrance FlyingBlue for two one - way flights on
different SkyTeam
partners.