You can redeem your miles for award flights with United Airlines, starting at 25,000 miles for a round - trip flight or 12,500 miles for a one -
way Saver Award flight.
You can redeem your miles for award flights with United Airlines, starting at 25,000 miles for a round - trip flight or 12,500 miles for a one -
way Saver Award flight.
Not exact matches
However, the United
award chart shows that business class
saver tickets only cost 60,000 each
way, or 120,000 round - trip for the same exact
flight, a quarter of how many miles or points you would have needed with cash back or a statement credit.
One -
way Saver Awards for domestic
flights can cost as little as 10,000 miles each
way with United.
Simply looking at the United
award chart, things are already looking up: it takes just 40,000 miles each
way on
flights with Economy
Saver availability, adding up to a total requirement of 80,000 miles.
However, if you can find
award space on Virgin Atlantic and a separate
saver level
award for a connecting
flight, there is a
way to make this work.
Pretty much everyone who belongs to a frequent - flyer program is familiar with the ubiquitous 12,500 - mile domestic
saver one -
way award on airlines such as United and American, but what if I told you that you could fly on that very same domestic
flight, operated by those very same U.S. - based airlines, for only 7,500 miles?
After confirming
Saver class availability for each
flight segment by searching them as one -
way flights, I now stitched them all together in United's multi-destination
award search tool, making certain to choose the specific
flight numbers I'd confirmed availability on during my one -
way searches.
You will still want to book as early as possible to ensure you can get one of the low - cost
Saver Awards, but, this is one less
way you can get nickel - and - dimed by the airlines if you can not book a
flight until the last - minute.
You can also reserve one -
way trips and combine different
award levels, like an outbound Super
Saver flight paired with an inbound Coach
Saver or Coach Flex (anytime)
award.
United's threshold is 700 miles; any
flights of 700 miles or less price out at 10K miles each
way for
Saver awards.
One -
way saver awards in Economy class start at 7,500 miles for a short - haul regional
flight and now go up to 154,000 miles for a long - haul, Suites
flight.
Saver awards for these
flights are starting at 80,000 Delta SkyMiles one
way and we just saw a lot of
Saver awards open up but then dry up virtually overnight.
Here are some sample first / suites class one -
way saver award rates and fuel surcharges from the US: Only A380
flights have private suites, but their «regular» first class is nothing to sneeze at either, it's among the very best in the world!
Economy
saver awards will stay the same price (one
way will continue to cost 10,000 miles for
flights under 700 miles or 12,500 miles for all other
flights)
This new transfer partner is great for taking advantage of Flying Blue's rotating reduced priced promo
awards, and for redeeming for one -
way Delta
saver award flights.
Saver economy
awards from the US to Australia / New Zealand remain unchanged at 40k each
way, increase 2.5 k miles each
way in business (to 70k), and remain unchanged in first class (80k) on
flights operated by United.
Economy
saver awards from the US to Japan increase 2.5 k each
way (to 35k), increase 5k in business each
way (to 65k), and increase 12.5 each
way in first (to 80k) on United operated
flights.
Discount is only available on roundtrip
flights, one -
way travel is still priced as a regular, non-discounted
Saver Award.
United and American, for example, both offer
Saver Awards that allow you to piece together two one -
way flights as a
way to use fewer miles.