Sentences with phrase «valuable award mile»

In my opinion, given the lack of availability that is continuing to get worse, American may very well end up being the least valuable award mile before much longer.

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Finally, those whose schedules preclude searching for award seats months in advance will also find their miles to be less valuable.

Finally, those whose schedules preclude searching for award seats months in advance will also find their miles to be less valuable.

The 50,000 bonus miles are most valuable when redeemed for award travel.

Most valuable option: Your primary option for point redemption will be to turn in your SkyMiles for an awards flight where a certain amount of miles can be used in exchange for a flight.

Other times, reward card users will quickly redeem their points or miles for merchandise or gift cards rather than much more valuable options such as an award flight or a free night's stay.

Travel rewards credit cards figure heavily into most award travelers» strategies, allowing them to earn valuable sign - up bonuses along with points or miles for everyday purchases.

Everyone knows that the right credit card can offer you valuable points and miles you can redeem for award travel.

The bonuses are either too small to buy most tickets when converted to cash, or the points are too valuable to waste on inflated award charts when converted to miles.

I've also written about a nice opportunity to get free stopovers on domestic flights, making the Alaska Airlines award chart particularly valuable: How to Book Awards on Emirates with Alaska Airlines Miles Alaska Airlines Awards: Two Domestic One Ways for the Price of One It does take 90,000 miles each way to fly First Class, however, and the big downside is that Alaska... [Read more...]

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This valuable information can help you re-earn 40,000 to 100,000 miles, so you can jumpstart your next award trip.

Marriott has enhanced rates with United where you get more miles versus other airlines, and United miles can be extremely valuable — especially for international first and business class awards.

Though American charges a late booking fee and relatively hefty change fees, it has pretty reliable availability booking in advance or close - in (except for big holiday seasons like Christmas) and incredibly low off - peak award rates internationally, so your American Airlines miles can be more valuable than those of other domestic carriers.

I'm not sure that's the best use of buying miles, but it's an example of some of the valuable award opportunities when you redeem miles on a partner airline.

Starpoints can be very valuable not only for free award nights (fifth night free) and Cash & Points awards but also by transferring them to dozens of other airlines, typically getting 25,000 miles for every 20,000 points.

Partner economy awards were unchanged, including the super valuable short haul prices of 4,500 to 10,000 Avios for flights up to 2,000 miles.

Although I don't fly United very often (mostly because when I do I deal with nasty / clueless employees or my travel reservations simply aren't honored), I rank their frequent flyer miles as the most valuable mileage currency out there thanks to low fees on award tickets, the ability to book one - way awards and great airline partners in Star Alliance.

Air Canada's award chart has some valuable sweet spots, like 110,000 miles roundtrip for business class flights to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Despite the dramatic devaluation in terms of earning and redeeming miles in 2014, United MileagePlus remains one of the most valuable U.S. frequent flyer programs with the biggest number of airline partners and a generally good award availability.

United miles are among the most valuable of the big three carriers (United, Delta, and American) because the airline doesn't collect fuel surcharges on any award tickets and because it allows a free stopover on round - trip tickets.

AAdvantage miles are a lot less valuable nowadays and while using them economically (booking SAAver awards) continues to be as hard as it is I can't see too many reasons to convert Hyatt points to AAdvantage.

United Airlines may not have many cabins that one would call aspirational (The latest Polaris seats on the 777 - 300ER are nice but there's hardly any of them in service) but it offers far better award availability than American Airlines and requires considerably fewer miles for premium cabin awards than Delta — that makes it a valuable transfer option to have.

However, the lack of first class award tickets on international routes does impose an upper limit since those often represent the most valuable use of miles.

They're not as valuable as KrisFlyer miles but they do provide good access to first class awards on SkyTeam carriers.

With that being said, those 4,500 mile short - haul awards that are so valuable can now be attained with just 4,500 Amex points, whereas before you'd need to transfer 5,000.

But it's not nearly enough to just allocate them some kind of uniform valuation, as some miles may be very valuable for a given type of redemption (e.g. Avios for short - haul economy awards) and quite a poor value for other types of redemptions (for Avios, ultra long - haul in a premium cabin with high mileage cost and often high fuel surcharges).

Since Doug Parker took the helm, he's done a lot to make AAdvantage miles less valuable by taking what used to be decent American Airlines award availability and chucking that out the window.

United miles are still more valuable for travel to Europe, though not by a huge margin anymore, ever since Lufthansa stopped releasing first class award space in advance.

With recent devaluations to the United and Delta award charts, American Airlines miles and US Airways miles are the most valuable miles for now.

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Airline alliance partnerships are extremely valuable for award travelers because miles earned on 1 airline can be redeemed on another airline, as long as they're in the same alliance.

Once points are earned, members have a variety of options to redeem them for free hotel nights, transfer to frequent flyer miles, or other valuable awards.

@ Jimbo2012 — You're absolutely right, for shorthaul awards the miles are incredibly valuable.

US Airways miles are the most valuable miles right now because of how cheap business class awards are on the US Airways award chart.

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.

Just MHO of course, but Alaska miles are pretty valuable give one - way awards with a stopover, and partners that are in more than one alliance (and not in any alliance) plus no fuel surcharges except on BA.

The thing preventing Alaska miles from being more valuable is that they don't let you mix partners on an award ticket.

Book on Booking.com, the world leader in booking hotel accommodation online, and earn valuable Miles & More award miles in the process.

I remain deeply unsatisfied with the indifference US Airways has shown to booking Lufthansa award space I wrote about last week, but US Airways miles remain highly valuable, particularly when compared to partner Star Alliance carriers.

This card allows you to earn 30,000 Alaska miles which are very valuable due to their current award chart.

Although we're saddened — but not surprised — by the American Airlines award chart devaluation, AAdvantage miles will continue to be a valuable currency.

People love Aeroplan because they offer some pretty great redemption options (90,000 miles for business class to Europe, though they've recently changed their award chart to be less valuable)-- see here for details, and they love ANA because with their distance - based rewards you can get some great values (63,000 ANA miles for a business class ticket on Virgin to London which until recently did not require Virgin's outrageous fuel surcharges).

Alaska Airline miles are very valuable thanks to the Mileage Plan program's generous award chart, vast partner network, and the ease of redeeming miles online.

Any other use for which Singapore miles are valuable (like United flights to Europe, Singapore Suites, and awards to South America with a few stopovers) can also be leveraged by getting multiple credit cards from all the transferable points programs.

But even if you don't, you will still usually have a number of ways to redeem miles or points for awards that are valuable to you.

Dear Tracey, United frequent flier miles can be a valuable commodity, because it is easy to search for award availability on United's website and because United tends to have more award seats available than its competitors.

Make sure to choose MileagePlus as your earning preference to earn valuable MileagePlus award miles for your hotel stays.