Etihad has
a very cheap award chart for booking American Airlines flights, basically identical to American Airlines» current chart for its own flights.
Not exact matches
British Airways: Household accounts allow members to pool Avios points between seven people who share the same address, and it happens to have
very cheap domestic
awards if you're flying nonstop for short distances.
It turned out that I was able to build a
very reasonable
award trip around a
very cheap flight between New York City and Milan.
Although it was a
very expensive redemption, other
awards are quite
cheap.
However, the
cheapest option in first class on the
very same flight is also 25,000 miles, so be sure to check both the economy and first - class
award options in case it makes more sense to sit up front!
Unfortunately the airlines offering the
cheapest flights, ANA and JAL, also offer co-branded cards with
very small sign - up bonuses, making them
very undesirable for earning an
award ticket quickly.
If you have a short, non-stop flight then your
award will be
very cheap — as little as 4,500 Avios each way.
It's all
very well for American's
award chart to show
cheaper awards but if the airline doesn't release any inventory those
award costs don't mean
very much.
There is some
very good news here for those booking Economy Class fares — 20,000 miles for a roundtrip
award between the UK and the East coast is
cheap.
Non-refundable
awards might be
very cheap if there's lots of inventory available or somewhere in the middle if there's only some inventory.
With the introduction of so many different
award classes, the miles needed for an
award have changed drastically: Some of the «Standard»
awards have dropped by more than 20 % — that was to be expected as all the routes in question have offered
very cheap economy fares over the last year, making a redemption on these routes generally unattractive.
On the redemption side, the program offers
very cheap short - haul
awards (as low as 4,500 miles in economy or 9,000 in business class), thus perfect for domestic flights within Japan (with no taxes!)
The first thing to notice is that
awards in economy are often
very cheap, but
awards in business class are often 2.5 x the price, which makes them extremely expensive.
While that sounds like a pretty even change, it's mostly
cheap hotels going down and
very nice, desirable hotels for
awards going up.
I also bought the
cheapest pass, the Expo pass, which gets you into the expo hall, the IGF
awards, and a
very VERY limited number of ta
very VERY limited number of ta
VERY limited number of talks.