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Mileage charts are tools airlines use to show how many miles are required for award tickets.
United Airlines
- United used a mileage award chart that let travelers match departure and destination regions to see required miles, but the chart was removed for flights starting November 15, 2019.
ANA (All Nippon Airways)
- ANA offered a 20% discount on partner award mileage requirements when bookings were made through its website, using its partner award mileage chart as the baseline.
Singapore Airlines
- Singapore Airlines introduced a new mileage chart effective March 1, 2012 for its own flights and updated the Star Alliance award chart at the same time.
Chase Sapphire Transfer Partners
- Chase’s airline transfer partners each have their own mileage charts, and staying informed about these charts during promotions can help maximize redemption value.
TAP Air Portugal
- TAP’s Miles & Go program provides a mileage chart where a typical US‑Europe business class award costs about 80,000 miles, and members can earn a 10,000‑mile bonus on one‑way Star Alliance awards.
Asia Miles (Cathay Pacific)
- Asia Miles uses two award charts: one for Cathay Pacific and mixed awards based on distance zones, and a separate Oneworld chart for awards involving two or more Oneworld carriers.
LifeMiles (Avianca)
- LifeMiles ran an award‑sale mileage chart in 2019 that offered 7‑31% discounts on select routes, with the sale period from September 10 to October 18, 2019.
British Airways Avios
- British Airways Avios distance chart shows partner award costs such as 40,000 Avios for a London‑Dubai coach flight and 80,000 for Qantas Business Class on the same route.
God Save the Points United Ditches Award Charts, Makes Points More Complicated For All…
For those deep into using miles and points to book flights, award charts are the backbone of the whole loyalty system. If you’re unfamiliar with award charts, these charts let you know how many miles you need to redeem to book an award ticket on a given route and they’re a simple way to help you plan. United had just such a chart. You could simply look at the chart, find the region from which you would be departing and the region to which you would love to fly and, voila, you’d know how many miles you needed to
View from the Wing ANA offers 20% off of Partner Awards
ANA is offering 20% off the mileage required for awards with its partners as long as they’re booked via the ANA website. All Nippon Airways may seen obscure to some, but they’re a Star Alliance carrier so their partners are varied. And they’re an American Express Membership Rewards partner so if you have Amex points you can transfer them to ANA and redeem for fewer than the usual miles required. The ANA partner award mileage chart outlines the number of miles usually required for an award. Take 20% off with this promo. And after you’ve signed up for an ANA account their website is actually quite good at searching for award availability.
View from the Wing 10,000 Mile Bonus For One-Way Star Alliance Award Booked With TAP Air Portugal Miles
There are a significant number of readers with Star Alliance Gold status and a lot of miles in the TAP Air Portugal Miles & Go program since they were selling miles for $0.0087 apiece as part of their mileage subscription program and matching status earlier this year. Usually when an airline discounts award redemptpions they do it only for their own flights. Partner flights cost them real money. The only regular exception to this is Avianca LifeMiles, which regularly runs discounts on partner awards, even in business and first class, but only on specific routes. TAP’s Miles &
Points with a Crew 6 best uses of Asia Miles: including business class to Europe for 80k round-trip!
Ever since Richard Kerr of AT101 posted a great guide to Asia Miles, I’ve been intrigued by the program. Like some other non-U.S. airline frequent flyer programs (ANA, JAL, Etihad, and more), Asia Miles offers incredible value, if you are willing to take the time to understand the potential. Today I’d like to illustrate some of the best uses of Asia Miles. As far as frequent flyer programs go, Asia Miles is on the complicated side. So study up until you understand the nuances of the program and how to use them to maximize your miles. Three different
God Save the Points Best Uses: British Airways Avios For Partner Airline Awards
I’ve done my fair share of slating British Airways and they’ve deserved every slice. With that said, Avios currently have excellent niche value, especially on partner redemptions with Qatar, Cathay Pacific, TAM, Qantas, American and Japan Airlines. Taking advantage of distance based awards is by far the smartest way to play Avios. When you combine distance sweet spots with great partners, you open up new cabins, wider routes and of course, the holy grail….less taxes and surcharges. For anyone that’s been hiding under a rock, come April 28th partner award redemptions are going to sky rocket. I highly