Due to a ton of comments, questions and general interest on my last few posts about my First Class award flights around the World, I’m going to re-post the below post from a couple months ago where I detailed how to book one of these de-fact around the World tickets using US Airways miles ( it’s really an award ticket from North America to North Asia with a stopover in Europe). My round-the-world flight reviews from that ONE TICKET are here:
A couple of notes regarding this post:
- US Airways miles can no longer be redeemed for flights on Star Alliance carriers like THAI, ANA and Air China.
- US Airways miles can NOW be redeemed for flights on oneworld carriers like JAL, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, British Airways and American.
- The US Airways award chart will go away during the 2nd Quarter of 2015 when the Dividend Miles program will be folded into the American Airlines AAdvantage program. At that point, all US Airways miles will be converted into American miles, and the American Award Chart and Award rules will supersede that of US Airways. It will be a sad day.
US Airways Dividend Miles are some of the easiest miles out there to accrue, and at least for now, the airline has a very rewarding award chart with several awesome hot spots that one can exploit to derive maximum value from their miles.
Perhaps no award on the US Airways chart has more value than the business or first class award from North America to North Asia for 110,000 miles in business class or 120,000 miles in first class. US Airways defines “North Asia” as China, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. US Airways’ liberal routing rules allow one to really exploit this award and turn it into a de-facto around the world ticket.
In this post, I will demonstrate:
- The mechanics and details of a US Airways award ticket
- How to book a US Airways Award ticket on oneworld partner airlines using American’s website
- How to book a US Airways Award ticket on oneworld partner airlines using British Airways’ website
- How to book a US Airways Award ticket on oneworld partner airlines using Qantas’s website
- The proper way to call a US Airways and book this award
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