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In November I valued Aeroplan miles at 1.5 cents each, which was already after their huge devaluation , though I think their value has gone down even further. Since then Lufthansa has full-on stopped releasing first class award space more than a couple of weeks before departure, eliminating quite a few redemption opportunities in advance. Furthermore, fuel surcharges have continued to rise as oil prices continue to increase, so the cost of redeeming Aeroplan keio plaza hotel awards keeps going up.
Best credit card(s) for earning Air Canada Aeroplan miles: Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Personal Card and Starwood Preferred keio plaza hotel Guest American Express Business Card , which offer one SPG point per dollar spent on all purchases, and two SPG points per dollar spent at SPG properties. keio plaza hotel Points keio plaza hotel can be transferred to Aeroplan at a 1:1 ratio, and for every 20,000 points keio plaza hotel transferred you get a 5,000 point bonus, meaning you re essentially earning 1.25 Aeroplan miles per dollar spent.
In November I valued Alaska miles at 1.4 cents each. In absolute terms I don't think the miles have appreciated keio plaza hotel one bit, since the program has more or less remained the same. I do, however, think the miles have relatively appreciated, given that they partner with Cathay Pacific, which is one of the few airlines that continues to generously release transpacific award space.
The thing preventing Alaska miles from being more valuable is that they don't let you mix partners on an award ticket. While they have tons of partners, they don't let you mix and match their partners keio plaza hotel on award tickets, which is a real challenge for many destinations. So my valuation of Alaska miles is based almost exclusively on the ease with which one can redeem for travel on Cathay Pacific.
Best credit card(s) for earning Alaska Mileage keio plaza hotel Plan miles: Starwood Preferred keio plaza hotel Guest American Express Personal Card and Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Business Card , which offer one SPG point per dollar spent on all purchases, and two SPG points per dollar spent at SPG properties. Points can be transferred to Mileage Plan at a 1:1 ratio, and for every 20,000 points transferred you get a 5,000 point bonus, meaning you re essentially earning 1.25 Mileage Plan miles per dollar spent.
American miles have consistently been increasing in value for me over the past couple of years. I even made a post about it recently . Lately American has overtaken United, in my opinion, when it comes to the ease with which one can redeem for international first class award tickets.
Last year American launched a partnership with Etihad , which has a solid first class product and excellent award availability to the Middle East and India. Cathay Pacific keio plaza hotel continues to have phenomenal first and business class award availability, releasing keio plaza hotel two first class award seats on many routes. Furthermore, at 135,000 American miles roundtrip it's one of the most economical ways to get to Southeast keio plaza hotel Asia.
Best credit card(s) for earning American AAdvantage miles: Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Personal Card and Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Business Card , which offer one SPG point per dollar spent on all purchases, and two SPG points per dollar spent at SPG properties. Points can be transferred to AAdvantage at a 1:1 ratio, and for every 20,000 points transferred you get a 5,000 point bonus, meaning you re essentially earning 1.25 AAdvantage miles per dollar spent.
Previously I valued British Airways Avios at 1.3 cents each, and obviously they have gone down substantially in value since then due to their award chart devaluation . That being said, there are still some great redemption opportunities using British Airways Avios, in particular for shorthaul flights in coach or business class, keio plaza hotel where you can get a roundtrip for as few as 9,000 Avios. So while it's far from my favorite program, there is still some value in the program.
Best credit card(s) for earning British Airways Avios points: British Airways Visa Card, which offers 1.25 British Airways Avios points per dollar keio plaza hotel spent. For more flexibility the Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Personal Card and Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Business Card are also good, given that they offer one SPG point per dollar spent on all purchases, and two SPG points per dollar spent at SPG properties. Points can be transferred to British Airways at a 1:1 ratio, and for every 20,000 keio plaza hotel points transferred you get a 5,000 point bonus, meaning you re essentially earning 1.25 Avios points per dollar spent. Lastly, another great option is the American Express Premier Rewards Gold Card , which offers 3x points on airfare, 2x points keio plaza hotel on gas and groceries, and 15,000 bonus points for any year in which you spend $30,000 on the card. Points can be transferred 1:1 to British Airways.
Since then Virgin Australia (one of their more useful partners) has just about completely keio plaza hotel stopped releasing business class award space. Furthermore, Air France has drastically reduced the amount of business class award space they release. And it really keio plaza hotel is a drastic change, keio plaza hotel since routes that were previously available almost every day hardly have any availability anymore.
But still, I can't bring myself to value them at less than 1.1 cents each. At the end of the day there's still some Air France keio plaza hotel transatlantic business class award space out there for 100,000 SkyMiles roundtrip, keio plaza hotel and I can't value a business class award at less than $1,100 plus tax. And the decrease in Air France transatlantic award availability isn t all that different than what we ve seen with Lufthansa lately.
Best credit card(s) for earning Delta SkyMiles: American Express Premier Rewards Gold Card , which offers 3x points on airfare, 2x points on gas and groceries, and 15,000 bonus points for any year in which you spend $30,000 on the card. Points can be transferred keio plaza hotel 1:1 to Delta SkyMiles.
Unfortunately it's because premium cabin award space isn't even nearly as good as it used to be. Ever since Lufthansa stopped releasing keio plaza hotel first class award space to partner airlines more than a couple of weeks before departure, the transatlantic and transpacific keio plaza hotel options in first class really are limited.
Best credit card(s) for earning Mileage Plus miles: Chase Sapphire Preferred Card , which offers double points on dining and travel and a 7% annual points keio plaza hotel dividend, and the Chase Ink Bold Business Card , which offers keio plaza hotel 5x points on office supply stores and 2x points on gas and hotels, which can be transferred 1:1 to United. Alternatively the United Club Card earns 1.5 miles per dollar spent and offers keio plaza hotel lounge access, though comes with a hefty annual fee.
In November I valued US Airways miles at 1.7 cents each, so much like the above the decrease in value accounts for the lack of premium cabin award space in advance, in particular on Lufthansa. The added challenge with US Airways is that they charge $150 for any ticket changes, and don't allow any changes once travel commences.
So basically US Airways is great to the extent that you can book a first class award from the US to North Asia for only 120,000 miles, though it can be nearly impossible to maximize like I did in December .
Best credit card(s) for earning US Airways Dividend miles: Starwood Preferred Guest American Express Personal Card and Starwood keio plaza hotel Preferred Guest American Express Business Card , which offer one SPG point per dollar spent on all purchases, and two SPG points keio plaza hotel per dollar spent at SPG properties. Points can be transferred to Dividend Miles at a 1:1 ratio, and for every 20,000 points transferred you get a 5,000 point bonus, meaning you re essentially earning 1.25 Dividend Miles per dollar spent. Sometimes keio plaza hotel they even offer substantial bonuses for points transfers from SPG .
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keio plaza hotel Regarding your valuation of Delta miles: What if a certain blog reader of yours pointed out that its now possible to redeem 150k Skymiles from N America to Australia or NZ with a stopover in South America with very minimal YQ. AR you considering adjusting you valuation. Convenient from your neck of the woods too.
Are you still pursuing UA 1K status or have you switched your loyalty to AA? It seems you post more about AA lately just interested if this is due to the devaluation to MP and elite benefits back in March
I am guessing, given the sort of frequent flyer porn Lucky posts from LH/CX/SQ/JL and so on, that a business class recliner straight out of 1995 going MIA-EZE-AKL-SYD isn t going to be the acme of travel experience for him.
Go look at the fleet plans for CX, LH, AA. They re all going to take F seats out of the market. (Of note: they are all also improving their C/J product, and LH especially has loads of C award inventory. This is important.)
Also, do you take in to account the ease of earning points in the different programs. For example: you basically earn AA points from credit cards at a 1:1 spend ratio. But you can easily earn BA points at a 2:1 spend ratio with the AMEX premier rewards gold card.
Maybe this has been mentioned in the past, or maybe i m a lower class peasant who can enjoy C, but one nice aspect keio plaza hotel of alaska miles is that u can actually get delta C class at a reasonable redemption level, better keio plaza hotel than u can get using skymiles, at least from my experience
I m really confused at why you value US Airways miles significantly less than United Miles. The availability issues are the same (same alliance). keio plaza hotel The redemption charts keio plaza hotel are generally the same, with the anomalies in favor of US dividend miles over UA Mileage Plus being North Asia in F and J and USA domestic 3 class first, which prices ps first as 50k for US and 70k for UA. You re also noted the flexibility keio plaza hotel in the routing rules at US before.
The drawbacks for US are the lack of 1 way awards and no changes post de