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Not as many airlines offer round the world awards as used to — but several do, including airlines you probably have access to miles with.
Generally you can fly on an airline and its alliance partners, making several stops, with the caveat that you have to fly literally around the world (crossing both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans). It’s more expensive than a simple roundtrip award, but for the number of places you can visit it can be a strong value.
Starwood is a 20% bonus on purchased points. Starwood points are the most valuable loyalty currency, and there’s leverage in any bonus they offer, however I don’t think this offer is cheap enough to justify buying.
Usually when airlines run award redemption sales, you’re limited to their own flights. But through Tuesday September 15, Star Alliance program Avianca LifeMile is offering redemption discounts on partner flights!
And usually when airlines run award redemption sales, you’re limited to economy flights. This LifeMiles sale even includes business and international first class.
It pairs with a big discount on purchased miles at just 1.4 cents apiece.
Modern airlines are really transportation system, and part financial trading firm. And sometimes they’re more of the latter than the former.
Indeed, here’s what Delta has been up to after losing over a billion dollars on fuel hedges in the first quarter of this year:
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Reader Wings has two questions: what’s the best rewards possible for a $25,000 home remodel project? And is now a good time to status match from United 1K to American’s Executive Platinum level?
Reader Jesse asks for a Starwood points strategy: “I understand that many airlines release more award seats close to the dates. Well, I am ready to transfer up to 200k SPG points to make first class award seat dreams come true. But I heard SPG takes up to 2 weeks to transfer points. How would you know which airline program to transfer the miles to so they would get there in time?”
Yesterday I helped a work colleague with a cancelled flight. Their US Airways travel was cancelled, and leading up to the Labor Day weekend most options were sold out. US Airways said they couldn’t re-accommodate until this afternoon which meant missing an important family event. They said nothing was available on other airlines, either, and that they could only rebook on US Airways or American in any case.
What do you do under those circumstances? Hang Up, Call Back: The Four Most Important Words in Travel, and Maybe Even in Life
I’m very impressed by what Delta has done with their brand new San Francisco Sky Club that opened this past week. It’s aesthetically gorgeous. And while complimentary food items remain limited (no matter how they trumpet the improvements there) they have a strong paid menu with a celebrity chef.
Delta’s Sky Club celebrity chef is Mai Pham who has two restaurants in Northern California and a Food Network show on Vietnamese food.
Data for 2015 is available and I find it fascinating what the 15 airline routes with the greatest capacity are for the year.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
