If you need to connect on American Airlines (or another partner airline) to get to your flight on Japan Airlines, you will need to
use the partner award chart to determine the number of miles required.
- Awards with Singapore and partner flights will price out
using the partner award chart, not the Singapore award chart.
What's your experience with seat selection and seat assignments on Singapore Airlines,
using a partner award?
Not exact matches
Instead of earning points that you can
use at only one airline or hotel, you can earn points that can be
used to book through an
award portal with no blackout dates, or you can transfer the points to a
partner airline or hotel to book
award reservations directly.
In addition to this, Asiana Airline miles can be
used to book
award travel with two
partner airlines: Qatar Airways and Ethihad Airways.
ANA
uses different
award charts when flying their own metal versus flying with an ANA
partner like United Airlines.
Each Sapphire Preferred point is worth at least 1.25 cents, but really, they're worth a lot more when
used to redeem for
award flights at
partner airlines or free stays at premium hotels.
For most of the
partners, cardholders can transfer a Membership Reward (MR) point at a 1:1 ratio to the ensuing frequent flyer or hotel loyalty program to
use in an
award booking or stay.
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HCR
awarded the GRHP $ 495,000 for the project through the Sustainable Neighborhoods Demonstration Program (SNDP), which
uses existing resources and
partners with local governments to support neighborhood renewal strategies and turn vacant and distressed properties into quality affordable homes for owners and renters.
Corash, 57, recipient of the Discover Editors» Choice
Award, and his
partners at Cerus Corp., John E. Hearst and Steve Isaacs, both chemists, have perfected a system that will make it possible for doctors to
use every available drop of blood collected without fear of spreading infection.
UC San Diego Health receives a $ 15.3 million Beacon Community Collaborative
award from San Diego health care providers and other community
partners — to pilot the wide - scale
use of health information technology to improve patient care.
A consortium of 10 academic and industrial
partners located across the EU, including Prof Mark Leake from York's departments of Physics and Biology, has been
awarded a research grant for the project «SynCrop» to investigate and develop cutting - edge methods to improve food production
using novel synthetic biology tools.
This year,
Partners is
awarding $ 500,000 through its 10 Innovation Discovery Grants specifically to local researchers developing treatments and cures for deadly diseases
using cutting - edge artificial intelligence.
«We are thrilled to receive this
award that will help us build a synergistic relationship between Johns Hopkins and our Chilean
partners to address important health equity challenges
using data science and systems engineering,» Martinez says.
The Network Systems Administrator Program, led by Louis Zulli Jr., and the solutions that the students created, were
awarded first place honors at the 2011 Microsoft
Partners in Learning Global Forum for Cutting - Edge
Use of Technology for Learning.
Transportation technology provider and consultant Ricardo has been
awarded a major contract by Moscow - based KATE LLC to
partner with it in the development of a new 7 - speed automatic transmission for
use in AvtoVAZ cars.
Sony Ericsson is also
partnering with Unity Technologies,
using its
award - winning development platform, to ensure a continuous flow of high quality 3D game titles.
One important point to remember when
using United miles to book this flight is that Lufthansa only releases first class
award space to its Star Alliance
partners 14 days before departure.
American Airlines
partners with Etihad, and if you have American Airlines miles, many
awards on Etihad are cheaper than
using Etihad Guest Miles.
Points earned can be
used on free rooms and other Ritz - Carlton
awards, or transferred to other loyalty account travel
partners.
Each Sapphire Preferred point is worth at least 1.25 cents, but really, they're worth a lot more when
used to redeem for
award flights at
partner airlines or free stays at premium hotels.
In addition to this, Asiana Airline miles can be
used to book
award travel with two
partner airlines: Qatar Airways and Ethihad Airways.
JAL
uses a distance - based
award chart and is not only part of Oneworld; it also
partners with Emirates (and hasn't devalued first - class redemptions like Alaska, another SPG transfer
partner).
To get the most out of airline miles, you really need to pay attention to things like what airline
partners you can
use with which miles, where to search for
award seats, and how many miles is a «good» price to pay.
Rather than «transferring» them to other airline
partners, you can simply
use them to book
award flights with any Star Alliance
partner.
Virgin America Elevate
partner flight
awards use the more traditional distance - based
award chart method.
Use United miles earned from a United Mileage Plus credit card or transferred to United from Chase Ultimate Rewards to fly on a
partner award ticket on Turkish Airways via Istanbul, or South African Airways vis Johannesburg.
At the same ceremony, Standard Life Wrap won the
award for «Best
Use of Platform Technology» with
partners FNZ, and advisers voted Standard Life Wrap the «Best Platform for Adviser Service».
In addition, there is great value in
using SKYPASS miles for
awards on
partner airlines, especially gems like traveling from the continental U.S. to Hawaii on Delta.
Hot Tip: You can now
use the Korean Air website to search many
partner awards.
You can only
use Korean Air and SkyTeam
partners for Round the World
awards, not other airline
partners.
Instead of earning points that you can
use at only one airline or hotel, you can earn points that can be
used to book through an
award portal with no blackout dates, or you can transfer the points to a
partner airline or hotel to book
award reservations directly.
They can, however, be
used to redeem tickets on
award flights with
partner airlines.
Then, you can
use the points to book
award flights on
partner airlines like Alaska Airlines or American Airlines.
Logically, we're drawn to think of
using British Airways points from Britain, but these short distance
award rules also apply to
partner flights and are great redemption for other parts of the world.
Unfortunately, these programs are difficult to
use for redemption on
partner airlines, and there are no advantages to
using them anyway since their
award charts are quite stingy.
Downside: AAdvantage miles aren't as useful as they
used to be, with
awards at the MileSAAver price hard to find on many days, but if you're looking to travel on American's
partners to Asia like Cathay Pacific, you'll have an easier time getting good value out of them.
I recommend
using the Alaska Airlines website only when trying to book an
award flight operated by Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air, or for a few select
partners that are relatively easy to find.
While US Airways miles can be
used for
award flights across all its new oneworld
partners, the off - peak
award chart only applies to
awards on US Airways operated flights.
Using a Star Alliance
partner award, anywhere in Australia or New Zealand to Tahiti or Fiji is only 12,500 miles each way for economy class or 28,000 miles each way for business class with no fuel surcharges.
Qantas is sometimes a great site to
use to find
award availability on Qantas or other
partner airlines, since the British Airways site does not always show
partner award availability.
Since I can redeem United miles on their
partner airlines, in this case Lufthansa, at the same mileage cost as on United metal,
using the current
award chart I'll pay 100,000 United miles and $ 97 in taxes and fees.
Flying on the airline or its
partners, booking
award flights, shopping at the AAdvantage eShopping mall, eating out with AAdvantage Dining and, of course,
using any co-branded American Airlines credit card will keep your miles from expiring.
You can
use the LifeMiles
award calculator to look up flights on Avianca, but most people are interested in the
partner award chart.
Using a Star Alliance
partner award, anywhere in North America to Hawaii on United is 17,500 miles each way for economy class or 30,000 miles each way for first class (on a two - cabin plane) with no fuel surcharges.
Other
partners use traditional distance - based
award charts and have some good values.
SWISS first class
awards are not bookable
using KrisFlyer Miles and neither are premium economy seats on Star Alliance
partner airlines.
If you've collected enough points for an
award flight — either through credit card spending, by flying the airline, or by shopping and dining with its
partners — keep on reading for some of the best ways to
use Hawaiian miles.
Understanding how to
use Alaska's website to find and filter
partner awards is ultimately the most useful skill you'll learn from this post.