Sentences with phrase «variable award pricing»

Unlike Delta, which did away with its SkyMiles awards chart when it switched to variable award pricing, United said it will still publish an Everyday Award chart listing the maximum price of a ticket in miles, although the actual cost might be less at the time of booking.

This is refreshing constant compared to increased use of variable award pricing in programs such as Hilton Honors.

Not exact matches

Since Delta's award pricing is so variable, it always makes sense to compare the award price to the cash price on any day you are looking at flying.

Effective September 1, Virgin Atlantic is improving some of the redemption rates for Delta flights, and all Virgin Atlantic awards have variable pricing between standard and peak travel dates.

These include a variety of increases in award prices, a new variable scheme to replace Standard awards and new redeposit fee rules.

Since Delta's award pricing is so variable, it always makes sense to compare the award price to the cash price on any day you are looking at flying.

Delta doesn't even publish an award chart anymore, and their variable pricing scheme allows prices for this route to go up to hundreds of thousands of miles.

However, since the prices are variable you may be able to find cheaper awards that aren't significantly more expensive than Saver level awards.

The main changes involve the repricing of United's international Saver Awards, the introduction of variable price «Everyday Awards» and the repricing of United's partner aAwards, the introduction of variable price «Everyday Awards» and the repricing of United's partner aAwards» and the repricing of United's partner awardsawards.

If I understand this correctly, these awards will have variable pricing between with a cap that is roughly the same as the current standard awards.

While Hilton's points can have variable value, and you have to be careful about how the system prices out awards (See: Hilton stinks at math: book award nights separately), this is still a pretty strong offer to pick up a bunch of Hilton points.

United is the latest carrier to introduce variable pricing for award travel, with an announcement that it will do away with MileagePlus Standard Awards this fall and replace them with a new category called Everyday Awards, «with pricing that will vary from flight to flight.»

The Delta SkyMiles program is known for being stingy, tricky to maximize and hard to understand since the airline doesn't publish award charts and uses variable, revenue - based pricing.

Southwest Airlines also has variable award travel pricing, based on the dollar cost of a trip at the time of booking.

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