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These prices are available for 3 days only, through December 19th. The good news is that Delta Amex cardholders should pay a bit less, since SkyMiles charges a premium to customers who don’t have their card. Awards booked online by cardmembers should cost 15% fewer miles.
United has been promoting ‘epic’ deals on award travel this week, with a different mystery destination each day – and sale prices available that day only.
Virgin Atlantic is offering 40% off awards booked by June 24 for travel through December 31, 2024.
The quirk is that when you book a business class award, and add a connection in economy, sometimes the price of the award drops.
Even better you don’t need to do this as a throwaway ticket without checking bags. Alaska Airlines offers one-way awards with a free stopover. So book your business class ticket to Europe and add a one-way coach flight to another destination for later. You should do this anyway any time you’re booking an award since it’s a free extra trip. Except here it’s negative-priced.
Southwest Airlines devalued their points at the beginning of the year and about 43% in 12 years, but for four days they’re letting you increase their value with 25% off on awards.
When Alaska Airlines announced their new distance-based award charts back in November, they teased that there would be regular discounts not just on Alaska Airlines travel but also on airline partner travel as well.
Virgin Atlantic is offering 50% off awards booked by March 20 for travel through June 30, 2024.
Virgin Atlantic is offering 20% off awards booked by January 31 for travel through December 31, 2024.
Most readers redeem Avianca LifeMiles for Star Alliance partner awards. But right now, through December 29, they’re actually running a 2-for-1 offer on all redemptions when spending miles to travel on their own airline’s flights.
Virgin Atlantic is offering 33% off awards booked by November 27 for travel through September 30, 2024.
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 »
