I usually use my miles and points to book directly in the class of service I want so I am not really familiar with the upgrade process.
Airlines don't allow you to transfer to hotels or credit - card programs, but you can
usually use those miles on airline partners.
If
you usually use miles for business or first class international redemptions you can get quite a bit more.
Not exact matches
A
mile is valued at 0.7 cents / point, much lower than booking cash tickets
using credit card points which are
usually 1 cent / point at minimum.
Surcharges are on the higher side when
using Flying Blue
miles, but when you consider how many
miles you'll be saving it's
usually worth it.
i) Business mileage: many employers reimburse for fuel only at the lower HMRC approved company car fuel rates even where the employee is
using his or her own car for work (
usually because the employee has had a choice whether or not to receive a company car and chosen not to), rather than at the Authorised Mileage Allowance Payment (AMAP) rates of 45p for the first 10,000 business
miles and 25p thereafter.
I
used to be in that camp, running basically a marathon per week (
usually 5 days per week at 5 +
miles per clip).
If you
use synthetic oil the oil change interval is longer (
usually twice as long or longer) which would mean you don't change the filter as often per
mile.
restige auto for a
used truck when I got there I realized it was only 4x2 and I really wanted a 4x4, so the salesman Jason actually found me a 4x4 with same
miles and that's not
usually the case at most dealerships I've been too.
The deal is, if you do
use green instead of orange (Dexcool), you need to follow the change intervals for the green coolant (IIRC, it's
usually 24k
miles or 24 months... depending on the brand, but I believe that's about nominal).
The downside is, of course, that the
miles you earn
usually must be
used with that airline, said Kendal Perez, a savings expert with CouponSherpa.com.
On your airline website's reservations page, there
usually will be an option for you to select «book awards flights» or «
use miles.»
To get the most value of your hard - earned airline rewards, it's
usually best to
use miles and points for what they were designed for: travel.
A
mile is valued at 0.7 cents / point, much lower than booking cash tickets
using credit card points which are
usually 1 cent / point at minimum.
You can also
use your
miles to redeem them for gift cards, merchandise and cash, although you'll
usually get the best deal on travel rewards.
Points (or points disguised as
miles) are
usually used to erase purchases of your card statement.
As I wrote yesterday, one of the best
uses of American Express Bluebird is the ability to pay for transactions which can't
usually be made with a
miles or points earning credit card.
You then load your American Express Bluebird with the Vanilla Reload card and
use your Bluebird for transactions for which you don't
usually earn
miles and points — rent, mortgages, ATM withdrawals, paying bills by checks, etc..
You then load your Bluebird card with the $ 500 Vanilla reload card online and
use your Bluebird for transactions for which you don't
usually earn
miles or points — such as paying mortgages (
using the Bluebird Bill Pay), withdrawing from ATMs, paying other persons, etc..
Surcharges are on the higher side when
using Flying Blue
miles, but when you consider how many
miles you'll be saving it's
usually worth it.
It
usually takes 25,000
miles to redeem a free, round - trip domestic flight but you can also
use miles for upgrades, international flights or one - way trips.
Longer flights which are the ones I
usually book, the chances of an upgrade are very small and my results have not been better when I tried to
use a Regional Upgrade certificate or
miles to upgrade.
Co-branded airline and hotel cards will
usually allow you to earn points or
miles on general purchases and award bonus points when
using it on purchases made from that specific airline or hotel brand.
Another (
usually more valuable) way to redeem is by
using your
miles with the Oneworld or non-affiliate partners.
Redeeming
miles for gift cards:
Usually, you lose — To get the most value for hard - earned airline miles, it's usually best to use them for what they were designed for:
Usually, you lose — To get the most value for hard - earned airline
miles, it's
usually best to use them for what they were designed for:
usually best to
use them for what they were designed for: travel.
If you don't want to
use your
miles to fly more than you already have to, or if you need to book paid fares to requalify for elite status, then upgrading with
miles usually makes sense.
Other airlines — like United and American — charge to
use miles, but
usually only on tickets booked 21 days or less before the flight.
You can
use your points to redeem for things in the shopping portal, but since this
usually only gets you $ 0.01 per
mile (and often much less), we don't generally recommend doing it.
Using Fixed Value
miles is
usually pretty easy — you search for flights on the airline's site and choose to pay for your ticket with
miles rather than money.
Surcharges are on the higher side when
using Flying Blue
miles, but when you consider how many
miles you'll be saving it's
usually worth it.
This is one of the best reasons to
use the Venture card, because it allows you to
use credit card rewards for things you would
usually not be able to redeem points or
miles against, such as buses, small bed - and - breakfasts, apartment rentals, and award ticket fees and surcharges.
Dear Joanne, When we think of airline reward cards, we
usually think of the
miles that come with them, and how we will
use those
miles for free trips.
5) Airline
miles / points will depreciate (
usually year - on - year) so don't hoard them hoping to
use them somewhere down the line.
Flying Club
miles are good for many things, but
using them on a Virgin Atlantic transatlantic or transpacific flight is not
usually one of them.
While it's extremely hard to
use AAdvantage
Miles effectively on American Airlines flights, I do still manage to spend at least 100,000
miles every year on partner airlines (
usually Cathay Pacific or JAL).
They will let you
use miles to cover the cost, but only at a rate of one cent per point, so you're
usually better off just paying for it.
You'll
usually get more bang for your bonus buck if you
use miles to purchase your next ticket instead of redeeming for cash and buying one.
Alaska Airlines does have a note advising that when you
use miles, you are not eligible for the chauffeur service which
usually comes with a Business or First Class ticket.
When it comes to
miles & points - earning credit cards, each of their earnings will
usually fall into 1 of 3 different areas of travel rewards: 1) Airline credit cards earning
miles within specific airline frequent flyer programs, such as Chase United VISA, Delta AMEX... etc.; 2) Hotel credit cards earning points within specific hotel rewards programs such as the Chase Hyatt VISA, Hilton AMEX... etc., 3) Strictly cash - back cards that earn a fixed percentage return (
usually from 1 - 2 %) on each purchase which you can then
use later to credit travel - related charges such as the Barclay Arrival + or Citi Thank You.
This is
usually based on past and future redemptions, such as when someone
uses 50,000 United
miles for a ticket they value at $ 1,000.
Right now, you can get two United
miles per dollar spent at Sears and Nordstroms, which means that clicking over to their sites via MileagePlus earns you the double
miles you
usually get by
using your Explorer on United purchases.
A couple of things
usually happen when people realize they can
use miles and points to fly around the world.
Now there are rewards programs that you can
use to pay for airline tickets with rewards points and still earn the
miles, but
usually if you are paying for a flight with rewards points you aren't getting the better value than if you were to pay for the same ticket with
miles.
You
usually lose the benefits of the card like free checked bags when you do that, but it's worth the sacrifice for the flexibility of
using your
miles on an airline you really want to fly on.
Disney World is not one of those exotic destinations we
usually write about, where you can reap huge savings on airfare by
using frequent flyer
miles to get there.
If I
use my United
miles to travel to Asia, and you
usually book awards to South America with your United
miles — you'll see very little change over the last devaluation:
Sure, domestic trips aren't
usually the best ways to
use miles, but I've been earning Ultimate Rewards at such a frantic pace that I felt I could «splurge» for 2 domestic segments on the Dreamliner.
Dear Fly Guy, Most airlines do have blackout dates, meaning certain high - traffic days —
usually around holidays or peak tourist seasons — when flights can't be booked
using frequent flier
miles.
Fortunately this fear is
usually not hard to dispel, since minor activity such as an iTunes purchase through an airline's online shopping mall or a purchase
using an airline cobranded credit card is enough to keep most airline
miles from expiring.
I am an American Award traveler, I
usually get a lot of
miles that I
use for tickets and these changes surely will affect my plans.