Book Cheap American Airlines Flights using Avios
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Now that British Airways has been devalued, here's how to book American Airlines' flights with credit card points and miles. We will still use Avios, but now we'll book through Qatar. I go over the perks and show you an easier way to find award availability to book American Airlines and Alaska Airlines flights.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Why this is the better way
1:15 Qatar Change Fees and Transfer Partners
2:25 How to maximize value with Avios
3:30 A Warning for Beginners
4:18 Finding Award Availability on Qatar Airlines, and why I don't like it
6:48 Finding Award Availability Faster
9:04 Finding Alaska Airlines Award Flights
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Great tip on searching Quantas for Alaska never would’ve thought
For sure! I had to play around a little bit to see which was best. I wouldn’t thought to just filter for American but there were some results that showed up that weren’t on Qatar, so Qantas was more accurate
Great video! I’ve also found Qatar to be the cheapest option to book other OneWorld partners. I did one for Cathay Pacific and Malaysia Airlines was a good price too
Thank you! And nice! I haven’t had the chance to venture out to other One World partners yet with Qatar
Yet another awesome video. Look forward to your videos. Thanks
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Super helpful! Thank you
You're very welcome, glad it was helpful!
Nice walk through! Your videos are very informational and easy to follow along
I appreciate that!
Great vid as always! I mentioned your channel to one of my coworkers so hopefully you gain another subscriber! Also congrats on 125k channel views man!
Appreciate it Richard, on the road to 2k this month!🤞🏽
Could you elaborate on your recent 30 second post about free flight tool on American Airlines? The video was so fast I couldn’t figure it out.
For sure! You can find the tool here:
www.aa.com/en-us/miles-finder-map
Just to be clear, it only shows routes and prices bookable with AA miles. Truthfully, it's not my first stop to look for deals, but it's a cool place to see what's possible with AA miles because of its map feature. I personally like to look at Points Yeah's Daydream explorer instead for skimming various points deals: www.pointsyeah.com/explorer
How do you transfer points to Alaska airlines? They seem to have some of the best deals
Hi! The only type of flexible points that transfer to Alaska Airlines is Bilt Rewards. So you would need the Bilt card, or get an Alaska Airlines credit card for a sign-up bonus. Other ways to earn points would be through their dining and shopping portal albeit slow ways.
But I agree, they do seem to have a lot of great deals and opportunities, unfortunately it's a little bit harder to get their points.
Would love it if you can make a follow-up video on this for AA redemptions through Finnair. It's supposed to be 11k miles within the continental USA AND it's supposed to include multiple segments. Seems like it could be very useful for zone 4 distance bands or flights with connections. Haven't seen many data points on this.
I’ll check it out! Honestly I think I did just one search on Finnair and didn’t see what I was looking for, so I just wrote it off. I’ll play with it some more though and follow up, thanks for the tip/feedback!
@@NurseMichaelTravels no problem! I think the only way to book AA on Finnair is through chat, hence why it’s not easily accessible as of yet.
Can you please provide an example of a flight from JFK to DEL with a stopover in DXB, or vice versa? Alternatively, can you provide an example of a flight from JFK to Japan with a stopover in Dubai or New Delhi? Your assistance with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
This might be a hard route to force into a single award redemption with a stopover, I'll look into it and let you know what I find. I'm assuming you're looking for a premium cabin?
@@NurseMichaelTravels yes and thank you so much for looking into it :)
Hey Sean! After looking into it, there's really only one option for this routing and that's with Emirates' aware program which sadly passes on high surcharges to customers, the total price would be 138k miles + $1098
You would book on Emirates' site searching with the "advanced search: multi-city" option on the front page, type in the cities and dates you want the flights to be on building in that stopover and it'll give you your options. It costs no extra miles to book it but you'll pay the surcharges for each segment giving the total price I mentioned eariler.
Award space in business class is pretty plentiful on their website but if needed you could use Seats.Aero to find award space.
I couldn't get First class to price out with the stopover built in, theoretically would cost 163.5k miles + ~$1100
There's some posts talking about if you book either an award flight just from JFK to DXB you may be able to call and add that segment segment to DEL for free.
Theoretically Air Canada also offers flights on Emirates, but award space from JFK is nonexistent.
There's award space on Emirates from Toronto and other places in Canada for 125500 miles + 115 CAD just for a one way to DXB.
and then 160.7k miles + 164 CAD for biz class on Emirates to DXB, then biz class on Air India for second segment with a stopover in DXB.
The routing JFK-DXB-TYO with a stopover is possible on Emirate's website as well with a price of: 158,750 miles + $1284
Hope this answers your question. If you think a video drawing this out would be helpful, let me know and I'll add it to the list!
Michael