Article: Which Airlines Make It Easiest to Find Reward Flight Costs?

[AFF Editor]

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Which Airlines Make It Easiest to Find Reward Flight Costs? is an article written by the AFF editorial team:

Which Airlines Make It Easiest to Find Reward Flight Costs?

As a way of comparing transparency in frequent flyer programs, we measured the time it takes to find reward flight costs with different airlines.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

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[SydneySwan]

Another victory for AJ - Qantas has the highest taxes on Matt's table on the NY to London route. Quelle surprise!

 

[Mwenenzi]

Another victory for AJ - Qantas has the highest taxes on Matt's table on the NY to London route. Quelle surprise!

Real taxes are the same for all airlines on the same route/class of travel.
A change from a non revenue flight to a revenue flight (=co-payment - surcharge) can trigger additional real taxes. Tend to be low (single - double digit)
The AU$8 is the US$5.60 Passenger Civil Aviation Security Charge to the US Transport Security Administration.

While many credit cards transfer to ffp's at the same rate, how many low and mid range cost/fare bucket flights needed (on the same route) to earn ff miles/points/avios for that economy award would be interesting (with no status). Maybe a harder calculation with revenue based ffp

Of interest.

Although it’s not part of this analysis, I was also quite surprised to see the Emirates Skywards co-payment when redeeming miles for United Business Class from New York to London. Most other programs don’t impose any carrier charges on United Airlines redemptions, so AUD1,252 is a shockingly high amount:

 

[Lynda2475]

IME for CR choosing AA to fly US-LHR always costs more in fees than choosing BA for same route.