Sentences with phrase «valuable award redemption»

Not exact matches

Even a relatively low value flight award is still more valuable than redemptions for hotels, cruises or rental cards which are only worth one cent per point.

If you transfer your points to partners with valuable award charts, it is not very difficult to achieve redemption values of at least 2 cents / point (often 3 - 4) which widens the value disparity even more.

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.

Even a relatively low value flight award is still more valuable than redemptions for hotels, cruises or rental cards which are only worth one cent per point.

This tends to make hotel loyalty programs more expensive than airline programs, which means award redemptions often aren't as valuable.

Most folks believe Membership Rewards points are more valuable than that since you can transfer them to a number of airline partners for premium award redemptions.

Any long - haul economy redemption on the EarlyReturns award chart is a good deal, but flights to Costa Rica are particularly valuable.

If you can ever find a promo award to Europe for 25,000 in economy, that's one of the most valuable sweet - spot redemptions available.

Yesterday American Airlines announced a huge number of changes to their AAdvantage loyalty program, including much higher award prices for their most valuable redemptions in business and first class.

You can book an award stay at the Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi for no more than 10,000 Hilton points per night, making it another valuable Hilton redemption.

That award chart is particularly valuable for premium cabin redemptions, since business class and first class awards cost 2 and 3 times the cost of economy, respectively, instead of the 3 and 4 times charged on the standard Executive Club award chart.

If you transfer your points to partners with valuable award charts, it is not very difficult to achieve redemption values of at least 2 cents / point (often 3 - 4) which widens the value disparity even more.

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).

I think what while the economy award redemptions aren't the most valuable, the business class awards still offer great value despite the fees on a round trip award.

I would never hesitate to speak for Scott, so what I think Scott was trying to say is that certain points (such as American Express Membership Rewards earned on a Platinum card, which was the actual subject of his post) are so incredibly valuable when used for premium cabin award redemptions on a regular award chart that it's almost a shame to not maximize them for that purpose.

It's just added a discounted redemption option for short - haul awards in the US, potentially making it even more valuable.

While some regions were hit hard — especially in first class — there will still be a few valuable redemptions with the new award chart.

However, that doesn't mean that every redemption makes sense, as there are Marriott awards that provide outsized value and SPG awards that aren't as valuable.

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).

Even though I will make exceptions to my 2 cents per point threshold with other award currencies, Starpoints are too valuable to me to consider any redemption that does not get me over 2 cents per point.