AA Releases Plenty of Peak Summer Award Space to/from Shanghai — First Come, First Served!
AA miles are a great sweet spot for redeeming business class awards between the U.S. and China: just 55,000 AA miles one way, compared with 70,000/80,000 one way using UA miles or...
Delta SkyMiles Quietly Devalues Awards: One-Way U.S.–China Business Class Now Costs 80,000
If you’re planning to use Delta miles for U.S.–China flights, take note: Delta quietly raised the cost of one-way business class awards on U.S.–China routes departing on or after O...
Booking a U.S.–China Business Class Award: AA One-Way in Practice
A real-world business class award booking experience, starting from a second-tier city in China and ending in a second-tier city in the U.S. Just when it seemed impossible, a new o...
Booking ANA Round-Trip U.S.–China Business Class Award Tickets: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to booking ANA round-trip U.S.–China business class award tickets, including award search tips, ticketing considerations, and ways to reduce taxes and fees....
AA to Use a New Award Chart Next March — An Expected Devaluation (Part 1)
AA miles will switch to a new award chart on March 22, 2016. Overall, this is a devaluation, which is hardly surprising. But aside from China/U.S. first class, the damage is actual...
Big Time for Savers: ANA/JAL Waive Fuel Surcharges (YQ) Starting December 1
For years, fuel surcharges have been the biggest enemy of using points to book award tickets. Recently, ANA and JAL announced that they will remove fuel surcharges starting Decembe...
Following the Competition: Changes to the AA Frequent Flyer Program in 2016
In a previous post, chanye mentioned one key advantage of the AA frequent flyer program over UA/DL: redeemable miles were earned based on flight distance rather than ticket price....
ANA and JAL to Eliminate Fuel Surcharges Starting December 1
Following the decline in global crude oil prices, Japan Airlines (JL) and All Nippon Airways (NH) recently announced that they will eliminate fuel surcharges on all international r...
Award Ticket Tip: Use Wikipedia to Research Flight Routes
Many readers who know a bit about award tickets have probably noticed that for some itineraries—for example, a ticket from A to B—searching directly from origin A to destination B...
Limited Time Through 11/20: UA Offering Bonus Miles
Through November 20, miles earned through UA partners will receive bonus miles. If you have not earned miles through that partner in the past 12 months, you can receive an extra 30...
ANA Adjusts Award Chart Starting 10/15
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; t...