Sentences with phrase «with premium cabin awards»

But you get better returns with premium cabin awards for international travel.

There's no getting away from it, American Airlines is incredibly stingy with its premium cabin award inventory and the lack of award space on American Airlines has been a regular grip with frequent flyers for years.

Whatever the reasons, it now looks like South America is starting to join the award party with premium cabin award availability opening up on a number of routes out of Miami.

I expect United to be quite tight with premium cabin award availability on this flight until they get a better idea of what load factors are going to be like....

Not exact matches

With business class flights to the Caribbean and northern South America, United's award regions allow you to book premium cabins in a variety of ways.

Most airlines just release 1 to 2 premium cabin seats per route so even if you're incredibly aggressive with searching for award seats, you may never have a chance.

I don't get to fly with Qantas all that often as, let's face it, international premium cabin awards on Qantas aren't exactly easy to find and the airline never seems to discount its premium cabins down to what I'm prepared to pay.

Flights between L.A. and Sydney feature a 777 - 300ER with excellent configuration in both first and business class cabins, but premium class seats on this route are virtually impossible to get at saver award rates.

Historically Singapore Airlines has split Europe into two regions, Europe 1 & Europe 2, with Saver Awards to / from Europe 1 costing considerably less than awards to / from Europe 2 in the airline's premium cAwards to / from Europe 1 costing considerably less than awards to / from Europe 2 in the airline's premium cawards to / from Europe 2 in the airline's premium cabins:

But British Airways charges fuel surcharges, award availability with Qatar can be a challenge, especially in premium cabins.

Normally the best use of frequent flyer miles is for international premium cabin awards because these are expensive tickets if you pay with cash but not very expensive if you pay with miles.

With Ft. Lauderdale's proximity to Miami and most other things South Florida offers this route is a nice bonus for Avios collectors — we suddenly have a lot more premium cabin space flying in / out of the Miami metropolitan area and that should be good for fares and award availability (hopefully!)

Both loyalty currencies cost around the same in the promotions but with MileagePlus miles you can avoid paying fuel surcharges when using them on United and a number of other airlines and, on top of that, you can purchase long - haul premium cabin awards on United for fewer miles than you can on British Airways.

The reason why a lot of Miles & Points enthusiast get excited about Korean Air is because the airline manages to combine an excellent premium cabin product with fantastic award availability.

While one of the award charts did see a major valuation last year — that of Emirates — there are still multiple partner award charts which offer international premium cabin awards for much less than the number of miles that would be required by booking directly with the airlines» own award programs.

Now that Singapore Airlines is actually flying aircraft with their new Premium Economy product (e.g. A350 service between Singapore and Amsterdam) the airline has decided to upgrade its award charts to reflect the new product (as well as to re-price certain premium cabin awards to / from Europe).

Just keep in mind that Singapore Airlines often restricts awards for their premium cabins to their own members, so you might struggle to find any open seats to book with Virgin America miles.

The AA award chart showed just one day with premium cabin availability and that was Dec 23rd with a connecting business class flight via Melbourne.

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).

Korean Air offers an excellent product, reasonable prices and a lot of availability, with anywhere from two to four premium cabin award seats on many flights.

While I agree that this isn't a particularly lucrative award chart for premium cabin flyers, there are a couple of options that could make some sense to those with Membership Rewards points who don't mind economy.

With that in mind, let me share what I consider to be 10 of the best premium cabin award redemption values, in no particular order:

American hasn't touched their award chart in years, so it's like you can pay the last - generation miles price for premium - cabin awards with American Airlines miles.

The real advantage is that Singapore Airlines makes some premium cabin award space (Business Class and First Class) available for redemption with its own miles.

United uses five zones for boarding and the United MileagePlus Explorer, United MileagePlus Club, Presidential Plus, and United Awards cardholders board in Group 2, which actually makes you the third group to board — after «pre-boarding» (passengers with disabilities, Global Services and uniformed military personnel) and Group 1 (Premier 1K, Premier Platinum and premium cabins).