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...
2015 New ANA Mileage Redemption Chart (3) – Award Chart Changes Coming October 15
ANA announced today that it will adjust its mileage award chart starting October 15. Compared with Air Canada’s changes, this update is much more reasonable: some awards are going...
Aeroplan Devaluation: How Should We Respond?
Aeroplan announced changes to its award chart today. There’s one piece of good news and several pieces of bad news. Let’s start with the good news: previously, Aeroplan one-way awa...