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.
This is refreshing constant compared to increased use of
variable award pricing in programs such as Hilton Honors.
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 a
Awards, the introduction of
variable price «Everyday
Awards» and the repricing of United's partner a
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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.
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 boo
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 boo
Award chart listing the maximum
price of a ticket in miles, although the actual cost might be less at the time of booking.
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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