Which airline FF programs have Distance Based Award Charts
Jan 12, 2011, 8:39 pm
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Which airline FF programs have Distance Based Award Charts
I thought that this would be a fairly easy thing to find but I can't seem to find it. Basically I'm looking for a comprehensive list of which airlines have distance-based award charts.
The reason is because I want to book a short haul flight in the USA w/ miles (WAS - SYR) so I naturally don't want to pay the prevailing rate of 25K miles (since this rate is going to be the same regardless of whether or not I fly cross country or fly next door)
I am planning to transfer SPG points, so far ANA looks like my best due to their being a SPG partner, they have a distance based award chart, and they are a Star alliance member (UA and US fly this route nonstop - so since UA is showing these flights as available when I do an award search I should be able to book them through ANA right?)
I'm assuming a lot of FT'ers know this stuff off the top of their heads. Thanks
The reason is because I want to book a short haul flight in the USA w/ miles (WAS - SYR) so I naturally don't want to pay the prevailing rate of 25K miles (since this rate is going to be the same regardless of whether or not I fly cross country or fly next door)
I am planning to transfer SPG points, so far ANA looks like my best due to their being a SPG partner, they have a distance based award chart, and they are a Star alliance member (UA and US fly this route nonstop - so since UA is showing these flights as available when I do an award search I should be able to book them through ANA right?)
I'm assuming a lot of FT'ers know this stuff off the top of their heads. Thanks
Last edited by HoKo; Jan 12, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Jan 12, 2011, 9:07 pm
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LA - Lan (km's)
BA - British Airways for Multipartner, but if you're flying direct or in the US this probably doesn't help your cause
CO - Continental has 20k awards for shorter distance trips
AA - Oneway awards (it may be cheaper to by one ticket and redeem for the other)
UA - Oneway awards on UA metal
Don't forget SPG gives a 5k bonus for each increment of 20k transferred. Also keep in mind your net cost, if you only need 20k miles and the other 5k are orphaned your net is still 25k.
Jan 12, 2011, 9:32 pm
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delete.
missed the part about short-haul.
missed the part about short-haul.
Jan 13, 2011, 9:36 am
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CX/AsiaMiles has distance-based awards, but if ANA can get you up there nonstop, great!
Jan 13, 2011, 9:49 am
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Jan 13, 2011, 10:28 am
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Any other *A members that are distance based?
Jan 13, 2011, 10:35 am
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NZ & QF are distance based.
VX is fare based.
VX is fare based.
May 10, 2011, 8:08 pm
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For SkyTeam one way awards:
CSA OK Plus award chart
AeroMexico has one ways, but it's pretty Mexico- and USA-centric - no intra-Asia or intra-Europe awards listed, Europe to Asia, et al.
CSA OK Plus award chart
AeroMexico has one ways, but it's pretty Mexico- and USA-centric - no intra-Asia or intra-Europe awards listed, Europe to Asia, et al.
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May 10, 2011, 9:08 pm
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Asiana has a distance based award chart.
May 11, 2011, 7:43 pm
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I did some research recently on the subject of distance-based award charts. Here are a fairly complete listing of all the airlines with distance-based award charts:
Oneworld:
AA, BA, IB, CX, QF*, JL, LA*
Star:
NH, OZ (Asiana)
SkyTeam:
As far as I know, no Skyteam airlines have a distance-based award chart.
Can be transferred from AMEX:
BA, NH, IB
Can be transferred from SPG:
BA, NH, LA, CX, JL
* The LAN award chart and a few QF charts are flight-based. This means that when pricing the mileage cost, you are charged individually per-flight, rather than the total mileage of the whole award trip.
Oneworld:
AA, BA, IB, CX, QF*, JL, LA*
Star:
NH, OZ (Asiana)
SkyTeam:
As far as I know, no Skyteam airlines have a distance-based award chart.
Can be transferred from AMEX:
BA, NH, IB
Can be transferred from SPG:
BA, NH, LA, CX, JL
* The LAN award chart and a few QF charts are flight-based. This means that when pricing the mileage cost, you are charged individually per-flight, rather than the total mileage of the whole award trip.
May 11, 2011, 9:17 pm
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0-2Being able to book one-way awards on other *A partners does not change the fact that you can use them for UA (the post specifically said it was a partial list).
Rather than rushing to (incorrectly) tell posters their wrong, one could focus on not contradicting thyself.
May 11, 2011, 10:32 pm
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if you have the US Premier MC you can get a 5000 mile discount on award bookings with them so only 20k miles domestic roundtrip