1. Introduction United Airlines is one of the three legacy carriers in the U.S. alongside American Airlines and Delta. Their miles are some of the best when it comes to redeeming for international travel. Here are a few reasons why I like them a lot: United miles are relatively easy to earn They have a big network of partner airlines to…
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0. Introduction Do you do a lot of domestic travel? If so, this guide may interest you! Southwest Airlines is the world’s largest low-cost carrier, serving over 101 destinations within the continental U.S., Central America, and the Caribbean. They have a generous rewards program (Rapid Rewards), where you can redeem points for free travel. Even for you avid international travelers, there are…
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In A Beginner’s Guide to Delta SkyMiles and Basics of Airline Miles Redeeming, we mentioned that Delta has the problem of Blackout Dates when exchanging airline partners: Delta chooses some of the dates and directly block them in its own system when searching and exchanging award ticket of air partners. So we have to understand clearly which days are Blackout dates,…
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As a member of Star Alliance, Asiana Airlines (OZ) ranks No.2 in South Korean airlines. It operates many North American routes and provides much better service than many North American airlines. Very often, it offers affordable economy class and business class seats. OZ and South Korean No.1 airline – Korean Air (KE) not only have close destinations and similar service,…
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Update: Starting from 2016.2.2, BA miles will be devalued. The reward flights in the north America that currently require 4,500 miles will cost 7,500 in the future, flights in others distances are not affected. Other than that, there might be bugs when you use British Airways website to search for American Airlines tickets. We suggest you use the AA website to…
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Redeeming airlines miles for an award ticket is a difficult yet very rewarding task. You will find that although different airlines usually have different rules, they still share many similarities. In this post, we will introduce some basic knowledge on how to redeem miles for flights. As this is not the simplest of tasks, it will be extremely helpful to…
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As a member of Star Alliance and a five-star airline, All Nippon Airways (ANA) is generally considered as one of the best airlines in Asia and among Star Alliance. ANA’s Frequent Flyer Program (FFP) is related to ANA mileage. TPG valuation of ANA’s mileage just amounts to 1.5c, maybe it’s due to it doesn’t like YQ or a round-trip flight…
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It will be heartache if the hard-earned miles get expired~ now we give a thoroughly introduction of the miles expiration policy of each Airlines.
Three Major Airlines: UA,AA,DL. The mile guides for the former two have been introduced before, where goes the indispensable DL? Today in this post, we will introduce the elementary mileage knowledge of Delta Air Lines (DL). The previously well-know SkyPesos, can we get rid of it now? 1. How to Earn Delta SkyMiles 1.1. Taking the flights Delta and UA are…
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Flying Blue is a joint operational Frequent Traveler Program mainly by Air France and Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), Both of them belong to SkyTeam. From the perspective of the author, this is a very nice miles system, you can redeem very nice free air ticket no matter departing from US or making Europe as the base. Same with the previous…
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Korean Air (KE) has always been the desired airline of the author’s Sino-US round-trip. Compared with pit North America Airlines, KE fares much better in its comfort hardware and software and services.In this post, we will introduce how to use miles to redeem tickets in Korean Air membership Plan SKYPASS. 1. How to earn Korean Air SKYPASS miles 1. Earning…
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We have posted an article before: A Beginner’s Guide to American Airline (AA) Miles, to give you a brief introduction to American Airline Miles, including how to earn AA miles and how to use miles for free air ticket (mainly focus on using miles for Sino-US air ticket). In this post, we will elaborate the specific rules of the AA…
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Singapore Airlines (SQ) is the very flight I took the first time when I went abroad. I was quite impressed with its premium facility and flight attendants in unique dressing with sweet smiles.Not only offering courteous services; they will also squat down to talk to the economy passengers. So I am always well disposed towards SQ. Since 2007, SQ has…
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Today we’ll introduce how to use Avianca Airlines miles. Avianca Airlines (AV, for short), founded in 1919, is Colombia’s national airline. Headquartered in Bogota, it joined the Star Alliance in 2012. It is also the second-oldest airline in the world, just behind Royal Dutch Airlines, KLM. The mileage points in AV is called “LifeMiles”. As we all know the…
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Apart from Star Alliance, OneWorld and SkyTeam members, there are some airlines out there that refuse to be a member of any airline alliance. Although often ignored for some reason, these airlines usually run well, and establish good partnership with other airlines. Some even have partners throughout three major alliances. From this perspective, we should not ignore these hub airlines…
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