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為了將來能少花費就遊歐及象K大俠，藍MM和夢女俠等去非洲看動物爬Kili，俺最近在南加真是上竄下跳，大搞航空裏程和酒店免費住宿：）
1. Budget租車拿5000Delta達美裏程
Delta SkyMiles members can earn 5,000 bonus miles and save up to 30% off on all qualifying rentals of 2 or more consecutive days at participating Budget airport locations in the U.S. and Canada.
Be sure to provide Coupon #MUAZ015 and BCD #U093306 when making your advance reservation.
Offer valid now through May 31, 2010.
鏈接：
https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/partners/partners/delta5000.html
過去兩個月，俺租了七次，每次一般兩天。當然，這跟俺喜歡開車也有關係：）
2. Mariott萬豪集團，從5月1日起，每次入住將獲得5000達美獎勵裏程
鏈接：
https://www.marriott.com/rewards/promotion.mi?promotion=DE10
從5月1日起，每次入住Mariott下各品牌將獲得5000達美獎勵裏程，從第2次入住開始計算。
必須先注冊優惠，並且將賬號裏的積攢選擇變成裏程，然後把達美的號碼存到賬戶裏。優惠截止日期為9月6日。
為了降低成本，可用Kayak.com先進行比價，
Mariott官網有最低價保證（鏈接：http://www.marriott.com/hotel-rates/travel.mi），若你能找到比其官網更低的價錢，它會match，再減掉25%。
我已經按這樣的辦法，訂了六晚，每晚也就60刀左右。訂的Mariott都含早含上網。
通過1和2，我大概可以搞到超過10萬的達美裏程，雖然這期間一次他家的飛機都沒飛過：）
3. 住Hyatt凱悅拿27500AA裏程
鏈接：
http://www.aa.com/netsaaver/viewPromotionDetails.do?fN=Hyatt25000Offer_0510.xml&locale=en_US
凱悅在住2送一的基礎上又帶來了一個強大的優惠，從5月3日到7月5日， 每次入住可獲得3000英裏的美國航空公司額外獎勵裏程，住5次後，再多送1萬裏程，總共25000獎勵裏程外加2500基礎裏程，外加2.5個免費晚上。
下麵ZT（上麵也有部分摘自他的博客）和樂飛遊博客關於最佳航空裏程的總結：
View from the wing talked about his take on the very best airline mileage award values and I’d like to add more.
Without a doubt, airline mileage award always get better value when redeeming on business/first class, but I know some people enjoy to visit more places than burning miles all at once, so I will also mention some good redemption on economy too. Back in 2008, I wrote an article to summarize all good value awards, but two years later, lots of them changed. here is my new summary:
American Airline:
70K/90K in business/first from Asia 2 to South Pacific including Easter Island
60K/90K in business/first from Asia 1 and 2 to Middle East
20K/40K in economy within Europe
20K economy within countries like Chile (excluding Easter Island), Argentina
Low season economy to Europe, South America 2 and Asia 1
Also, most importantly, all award can be redeemed for one way at half of RT cost.
Alaska airline:
Besides what’s Gary has mentioned in his blog, 7500 for one way travel within Alaska is also a great value
British Airways:
all economy/business award on single partner Lan from NA to South Aemrica(especially Southern South America) are excellent value.40K in economy, 80K in Business, all can be redeemed for one way at half of RT cost. Note: IPC(Eastern Island) is considered as part of Chile, so same amount as to South America
Also, all econ/business award on lan within South America/single country are also good value. 20K economy for within same country, 25K economy within south america, times 2 for business, divide by 2 for one way.
All BA awards allows unlimited stopover provided u are using the most direct routing, that means from LAX-IPC, you can get at least 2 stopovers, one in LIM, another one in SCL.
BA single airline to Asia in business class is considered a great value too.
British Midland:
BD still offers one the best award redemption table in business class. as mentioned before, no big changes since then. besides the great value in business class, there are some excellent value in economy class too.
one way Non stop flight within Europe from Zone 1 to 2, for Cash+miles, this award costs only 3000 miles+some cash. some non stop flights can be very expensive within the region.
Economy/business class within zone 5 or btw zone 5-6, within zone 5 costs only 5000 miles+cash in economy one way, but zone 5 covers almost entire Middle East/Central Asia/North Africa all the way to Tanzania.
Continental:
CO currently has exactly same redemption table as UA, but routing and award rule/availability are much much better than UA.
From North Asia-South Asia business class costs only 30K, you can go as far as Indonesia and you can find some crazy routing on Co website.
In addition, unlike most *A carriers program, you can combine non *A carriers with *A carriers when u searching online, that’s including VS upper class.
Don’t forget, you can one stopover+one open jaw with CO miles
For same amount, you actually get much better value with CO mile than UA.
Delta:
After NW and DL merged, DL have the worst availability in the entire industry, especially for award to Asia. However, with help of KL and AF, award to Europe/Middle East/central Asia/Africa are not that terrible yet.
100K business from US-EU with open jaw and stopover
110K business from US-EU, with stopover in EU, then open jaw from Africa/ Middle East/Central Asia or v.v
120K business from US-any Africa/ Middle East/Central Asia with stopover in EU and return from another region
If you are still wondering how to travel btw these regions Africa/ Middle East/Central Asia, BMI miles I mentioned above is your friend.
Also, 20K in economy anywhere within Asia is not that bad.
Note: Delta Awards allow one stopover+one open jaw for travel to/within any region provided their stupid system can recognize it.
KLM/AF:
KLM and AF offer 50% off redemption award year round to selected destinations, a lot of times, economy award from US-Europe can be as low as 25K, also business class award often half off too.
United:
Really, I can not find any,as I said, UA and CO have exactly identical redemption table, but UA has too many restrictions such as *A blocking, open jaw or stopover, not both. Non*A partner can not be combined with *A partner, etc……
US airways:
I just mentioned US airways few days ago, it’s one of the best program is US now.
US airways consider Russia as North Asia, from Russia-Hong Kong 20K in economy and most program consider Russia as Europe, so you only need 40K from Hong Kong to Europe in coach RT, first to Russian with US airways miles+AA miles from Russia to Europe.
or even better, fly to LED, then take a cruise to HEL.
Low season redemption on US own flight is a excellent deal too.
ANA:
I mentioned here and here how to best use ur ANA(AMEX rewards) miles.
Virgin Atlantic:
Whenever award is on sale
Lan(distance based)
Dan deals had a summary on Lan kilometers, best is for non stop short haul flight.
Once again, there are many good redemption levels to certain regions/countries on different programs worldwide, but accumulating and managing miles on those programs may not as easy as programs mentioned above, so I won’t suggest to put your miles into a program you are not to familiar with or just for a particular award unless u need to travel to/from that region frequently.
文章裏的鏈接要直接去原文才可打開。
原文鏈接：
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/tmtravelworld/2010/05/16/my-take-on-the-very-best-airline-mileage-award-values/
1. Budget租車拿5000Delta達美裏程
Delta SkyMiles members can earn 5,000 bonus miles and save up to 30% off on all qualifying rentals of 2 or more consecutive days at participating Budget airport locations in the U.S. and Canada.
Be sure to provide Coupon #MUAZ015 and BCD #U093306 when making your advance reservation.
Offer valid now through May 31, 2010.
鏈接：
https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/partners/partners/delta5000.html
過去兩個月，俺租了七次，每次一般兩天。當然，這跟俺喜歡開車也有關係：）
2. Mariott萬豪集團，從5月1日起，每次入住將獲得5000達美獎勵裏程
鏈接：
https://www.marriott.com/rewards/promotion.mi?promotion=DE10
從5月1日起，每次入住Mariott下各品牌將獲得5000達美獎勵裏程，從第2次入住開始計算。
必須先注冊優惠，並且將賬號裏的積攢選擇變成裏程，然後把達美的號碼存到賬戶裏。優惠截止日期為9月6日。
為了降低成本，可用Kayak.com先進行比價，
Mariott官網有最低價保證（鏈接：http://www.marriott.com/hotel-rates/travel.mi），若你能找到比其官網更低的價錢，它會match，再減掉25%。
我已經按這樣的辦法，訂了六晚，每晚也就60刀左右。訂的Mariott都含早含上網。
通過1和2，我大概可以搞到超過10萬的達美裏程，雖然這期間一次他家的飛機都沒飛過：）
3. 住Hyatt凱悅拿27500AA裏程
鏈接：
http://www.aa.com/netsaaver/viewPromotionDetails.do?fN=Hyatt25000Offer_0510.xml&locale=en_US
凱悅在住2送一的基礎上又帶來了一個強大的優惠，從5月3日到7月5日， 每次入住可獲得3000英裏的美國航空公司額外獎勵裏程，住5次後，再多送1萬裏程，總共25000獎勵裏程外加2500基礎裏程，外加2.5個免費晚上。
下麵ZT（上麵也有部分摘自他的博客）和樂飛遊博客關於最佳航空裏程的總結：
View from the wing talked about his take on the very best airline mileage award values and I’d like to add more.
Without a doubt, airline mileage award always get better value when redeeming on business/first class, but I know some people enjoy to visit more places than burning miles all at once, so I will also mention some good redemption on economy too. Back in 2008, I wrote an article to summarize all good value awards, but two years later, lots of them changed. here is my new summary:
American Airline:
70K/90K in business/first from Asia 2 to South Pacific including Easter Island
60K/90K in business/first from Asia 1 and 2 to Middle East
20K/40K in economy within Europe
20K economy within countries like Chile (excluding Easter Island), Argentina
Low season economy to Europe, South America 2 and Asia 1
Also, most importantly, all award can be redeemed for one way at half of RT cost.
Alaska airline:
Besides what’s Gary has mentioned in his blog, 7500 for one way travel within Alaska is also a great value
British Airways:
all economy/business award on single partner Lan from NA to South Aemrica(especially Southern South America) are excellent value.40K in economy, 80K in Business, all can be redeemed for one way at half of RT cost. Note: IPC(Eastern Island) is considered as part of Chile, so same amount as to South America
Also, all econ/business award on lan within South America/single country are also good value. 20K economy for within same country, 25K economy within south america, times 2 for business, divide by 2 for one way.
All BA awards allows unlimited stopover provided u are using the most direct routing, that means from LAX-IPC, you can get at least 2 stopovers, one in LIM, another one in SCL.
BA single airline to Asia in business class is considered a great value too.
British Midland:
BD still offers one the best award redemption table in business class. as mentioned before, no big changes since then. besides the great value in business class, there are some excellent value in economy class too.
one way Non stop flight within Europe from Zone 1 to 2, for Cash+miles, this award costs only 3000 miles+some cash. some non stop flights can be very expensive within the region.
Economy/business class within zone 5 or btw zone 5-6, within zone 5 costs only 5000 miles+cash in economy one way, but zone 5 covers almost entire Middle East/Central Asia/North Africa all the way to Tanzania.
Continental:
CO currently has exactly same redemption table as UA, but routing and award rule/availability are much much better than UA.
From North Asia-South Asia business class costs only 30K, you can go as far as Indonesia and you can find some crazy routing on Co website.
In addition, unlike most *A carriers program, you can combine non *A carriers with *A carriers when u searching online, that’s including VS upper class.
Don’t forget, you can one stopover+one open jaw with CO miles
For same amount, you actually get much better value with CO mile than UA.
Delta:
After NW and DL merged, DL have the worst availability in the entire industry, especially for award to Asia. However, with help of KL and AF, award to Europe/Middle East/central Asia/Africa are not that terrible yet.
100K business from US-EU with open jaw and stopover
110K business from US-EU, with stopover in EU, then open jaw from Africa/ Middle East/Central Asia or v.v
120K business from US-any Africa/ Middle East/Central Asia with stopover in EU and return from another region
If you are still wondering how to travel btw these regions Africa/ Middle East/Central Asia, BMI miles I mentioned above is your friend.
Also, 20K in economy anywhere within Asia is not that bad.
Note: Delta Awards allow one stopover+one open jaw for travel to/within any region provided their stupid system can recognize it.
KLM/AF:
KLM and AF offer 50% off redemption award year round to selected destinations, a lot of times, economy award from US-Europe can be as low as 25K, also business class award often half off too.
United:
Really, I can not find any,as I said, UA and CO have exactly identical redemption table, but UA has too many restrictions such as *A blocking, open jaw or stopover, not both. Non*A partner can not be combined with *A partner, etc……
US airways:
I just mentioned US airways few days ago, it’s one of the best program is US now.
US airways consider Russia as North Asia, from Russia-Hong Kong 20K in economy and most program consider Russia as Europe, so you only need 40K from Hong Kong to Europe in coach RT, first to Russian with US airways miles+AA miles from Russia to Europe.
or even better, fly to LED, then take a cruise to HEL.
Low season redemption on US own flight is a excellent deal too.
ANA:
I mentioned here and here how to best use ur ANA(AMEX rewards) miles.
Virgin Atlantic:
Whenever award is on sale
Lan(distance based)
Dan deals had a summary on Lan kilometers, best is for non stop short haul flight.
Once again, there are many good redemption levels to certain regions/countries on different programs worldwide, but accumulating and managing miles on those programs may not as easy as programs mentioned above, so I won’t suggest to put your miles into a program you are not to familiar with or just for a particular award unless u need to travel to/from that region frequently.
文章裏的鏈接要直接去原文才可打開。
原文鏈接：
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/tmtravelworld/2010/05/16/my-take-on-the-very-best-airline-mileage-award-values/
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