Swiss, Adria, and Croatia Airlines award seats are now bookable on continental.com, meaning that 26/27 Star Alliance carriers can now be booked quickly and easily online. Only Ethiopian Airlines, which joined Star Alliance last December, is yet to be added.
Up until now, the use of the Air Canada/Aeroplan or ANA award search ...
I wouldn't call this the sale of century, but if you are planning an economy class award redemption to the lower half of Africa or Europe (not recommended--go in business or first), you can save 20-25% off the published mileage rate through United and Continental for travel occurring in the next few months.
The Points Guy sums up nicely the key points of this offer:
Book by January 16, 2012Travel between January 27, 2012 and March 22, 2012Available only ...
I'm using Etihad Airways to get to the Maldives next fall, but if your bucket of miles are with a Star Alliance carrier, your only option for flying directly out of the Maldives (MLE) is Singapore Airlines to Singapore. Singapore runs two daily flights:
SQ461, MLE-SIN, departs at 3:00PM, lands at 10:50PMSQ451, MLE-SIN, departs at 11:25PM, lands at 7:15AMSo basically you can leave in the afternoon and get in late or you can take a redeye. Singapore AIrlines uses a 2-cabin ...
People often ask me how they can squeeze the most value out of their frequent flyer miles. I begin my answer by stating that maximizing monetary value and actual value are two very different things and ultimately there is no magic formula that tells you whether you are effectively using your miles.
I find the biggest waste of miles is to use them to purchase consumer products, like spending 200K miles on a $700 television set when those miles could have been used for two business ...
Even though it is becoming easier to search for award flights with the addition of Singapore, EgyptAir and Air China to Continental.com there still remains a myriad of rules that might confuse you. In addition to booking awards through our airline award booking service, I field a number of common questions on awards booked using US Airways Dividend Miles.
Q. I'm booking an open jaw award for my destination, can I return to a different airport than I departed from? For example ...
Last Friday I reported that Aeroplan, Air Canada's mileage program, was pricing out business class awards at economy class prices and first class awards at business class prices. I speculated that some sort of IT glitch was behind the "sale" and encouraged you to book now and ask questions later. Four days later the "sale" is still on and it appears I was mistaken: the "glitch" is actually a deliberate yet unpublished fare sale.
This morning I received the following comment in the ...
