Following Air Canada, All Nippon Airways (ANA) has also announced that it will adjust its award chart starting October 15 of this year. ANA’s own flight award chart is unchanged; the adjustments are mainly concentrated in the partner-airline award chart. Please click this link to see the mileage required for partner-airline award tickets before and after the change. Overall, this update is not a major devaluation. We’ve summarized the main changes for readers below:
- ANA’s own flight award chart has not changed. For example, round-trip economy between China and the U.S. remains at L/R/H 45,000/55,000/60,000 miles, which is without question one of the best redemption values on China-U.S. routes.
- Star Alliance award tickets between China and the U.S. also remain at 60,000/95,000/180,000 miles. Compared with booking the same route through UA at 70,000/140,000/160,000, ANA’s business-class pricing is almost unbelievably cheap. Let’s hope this rate lasts forever.
- The redemption rates for other itineraries originating in China are shown below. As you can see, prices have decreased for flights within zone 3 (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Guam) and for China–South Korea round trips, while prices have increased for round trips between China and zone 4 (which includes most of Central Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia).
- The redemption rates for itineraries departing from North America are shown below. Only round trips to zone 4 and zone 9 (Latin America) have increased in price, while the 55,000/88,000 rates for Europe round trips remain unchanged. Note that although ANA refers to zone 9 as South, Latin America, Mexico is actually classified in zone 6 North America.
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