How to convert mileage into business class air tickets around the world?

This is a problem that everyone is more concerned about, that is, the exchange of mileage for air tickets. What I want to talk about here is international flights. If you often need to fly or use some credit cards, you must pay attention to the following ways to save money when buying air tickets.

How to exchange miles for global business class tickets takes seven, eight or even a dozen paragraphs. Of course, it is impossible for a single airline to fly, so the concept that cannot be avoided is aviation alliance. Let's popularize the basic knowledge first-the biggest use of the alliance is not only to exchange the mileage of one of them for tickets of other families, but also to accumulate the mileage to the one you usually use. More importantly, it also allows passengers to include multiple airlines in one ticket, thus realizing the freedom of flight routes. Mileage tickets, especially round-the-world mileage tickets, can make full use of this rule, including as many airlines as possible (such as eight) and fly to more destinations (such as 12). At present, there are three major aviation alliances in the world, in descending order (number of airlines and airports covered):

Star Alliance: adria airways, aegean airlines, Air Canada, China International Airlines, Air India, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Brazilian Airlines Colombia, Central American Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Panama Airlines, Croatian Airlines, Egyptian Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Air, Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Nordic Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines and South African Airlines.

SkyTeam: Aeroflot, Aeromexico, Air Europe, Air France, Alitalia, China Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Garuda Indonesia, Kenya Airways, KLM Dutch Airlines, Korean Air, Romanian Airlines, Vietnamese Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Middle East Airlines, Argentine Airlines and Xiamen Airlines.

One worldwide: air berlin, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, spanair, Japan Airlines, Chile Airlines, Malaysia International Airlines, Qantas, Royal Jordanian Airlines, S7 Siberian Airlines and Sri Lanka Airlines.

Although there are so many airlines participating in the alliance, not every one can exchange it for a round-the-world ticket. At one time, many mainstream airlines in the United States had this function, but it has been completely cancelled in recent years. Looking around now, there are only a few universal tickets that can be exchanged by the aviation industry.

Star alliance

Star alliance (star

As the first alliance to absorb Chinese mainland Airlines, SA has the highest familiarity in China. Of course, SA, as the largest airline alliance in the world, covers the most cities and routes, from modern cities to various wilderness areas. So for tourists who want to travel around the world, the network of Star Alliance is also the most powerful. Among the current 27 members of Star Alliance, the most mainstream round-the-world mileage ticket is All Nippon Airways (NH).

First of all, Anna

Its exchange table is particularly cordial in today's world where mileage has greatly depreciated, and it is also the scheme that needs the least mileage between China and the United States. Although some airlines have the disadvantage of high fuel taxes, there are so many airlines in Meng Xing that they can always find some with low fuel taxes.

As for the round-the-world ticket, the total * * * can fly an amazing 12 segment, with 8 stops and at most 4 openings, and can drive multiple segments on the ground without going back. Moreover, the mileage required on the same length of flight route is almost the lowest, so it is a good choice for the mileage industry.

Almost all airlines' round-the-world mileage tickets calculate the required mileage according to the total flight mileage, and most carefully planned round-the-world flight routes are between1.7 ~ 30,000 miles. Let's take a look at ANA's exchange table first.

ANA Round the World Air Ticket Redemption Form:

ANA, which makes flying around the world closer to ordinary people, is kind!

The coverage of SA is undoubtedly the best. Compared with the other two major alliances, the areas where SA has absolute advantages include the whole of Europe, Africa, India, East Asia, Canada and Pacific islands. The disadvantage is Australia, Russia and South America, obviously winning more and losing less. So as long as there is enough ANA mileage, plan a route around the world. That's so.

Relax.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages here, which is too rare! ANA is well-known within the Star Alliance, and its cumulative share of cooperative airlines is relatively low. Of course, if you are flying to ANA's house, you don't have to worry about this. However, it is estimated that there are very few friends who fly to China and Japan all day. In terms of points transfer, ANA used to have a joint credit card in China Merchants Bank, which also saved 30,000 miles. Unfortunately, it stopped two years ago. So now, for domestic friends, the only way to quickly accumulate ANA miles is to transfer hotel points. Of all the hotel groups, the most valuable air mileage is of course the Big SPG, and you get an extra 5,000 when you switch to 20,000, so as long as you have 85,000 SPG points and switch to ANA to become 105000 miles, you can immediately change a global business class ticket and fly and play in 12 countries!

ANA example 1

9 flight segments, 8 destinations, 0 sailing points, total flight distance 17526 miles, and exchange only 105000 miles.

Beijing started all the way west, Stockholm, Prague and Frankfurt felt the purest European essence, then went to Chicago to see the hometown of skyscrapers, drove around the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone National Park in Denver, and then went to Seattle to visit Starbucks flagship store. At the end of the trip, I ended up in exquisite Japan, bought food in buy buy, Tokyo, and stopped at Nara Road in Kyoto, Kansai. Only three visas from the United States, Japan and Schengen are required for the whole journey, and the duration varies from 15 to 40 days.

Example 2

1 1 flight segment, 8 destinations and 4 sailing destinations, with a total flight distance of 2 170 1 mileage and only 125000 mileage for redemption.

First of all, I will feel the warmth and glory of loi krathong in Chiang Mai, then I will go all the way south in Thailand, visit all the Buddhist monuments, attend a full moon party in Koh Samui, and then fly to Bangkok for two days. After drinking Dongyin Gongtang, I will fly to Istanbul to experience the exotic customs of Turkey in an instant, and then fly to Casablanca to experience the Sahara customs described by Sanmao. After traveling around Morocco, I will fly from Marrakech to Lisbon, Portugal, and I won't go back. Experience the most passionate Europe in Iberian Peninsula, then continue to fly directly to South America and Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, to see the world's highest Angel Waterfall, then transfer to Panama City, spend a day visiting the busiest canal in the western hemisphere, and then fly to Cancun to feel the Caribbean customs displayed by endless beaches. From Cancun, we will visit Mexico by land, watch whales in puerto vallarta on the Pacific coast, then fly to Vancouver, Canada, experience the most livable city in the world, and release our passion by going to Whistler Blackcomb Mountain, the strongest snowfield on the surface. It lasted about three months, covering five continents: Asia, Europe, Africa and North and South America.

Once you have accumulated enough ANA miles, it is very easy to issue tickets. Although the ticket will still be issued by telephone after the ticket inspection, his China customer service telephone number can be described as professional and friendly, as intimate as on-board service. In addition, since global air tickets cannot be self-service online, the telephone ticket purchase fee can be exempted.

Generally speaking, ANA is the first round-the-world air ticket program, which is suitable for all friends who can save enough money for family travel. (Of course, they are basically frequent visitors to China-Japan routes or travel parties who stay in hotels for more than 50 nights every year. )

Yuhuan family

After talking about the big and complete Star Alliance, it's time to say small and beautiful (one

World is short for OW. Unlike Meng Xing, where there are 27 airlines, there are only 14 in the world, almost half of the former, and the number of airports covered is also less than the former 1/3. But in the eyes of many quality-oriented frequent fliers (zoo), OW is the best alliance in the world.

Two characteristics: first, Anglo-Saxon alliance-British Airways, American Airlines, Qantas, and (often imagine themselves to be British in Asia) Japan Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airlines in Hong Kong; Second, there are many established airlines and many flag airlines.

The above two characteristics make Star Alliance, an alliance composed of Global Alliance and Germanic Alliance+rising stars from all countries (United Airlines, All Nippon Airways, Asiana and Evergreen are not flag carriers), and Wu Alliance, a mob, look more expensive, the airline quality is more stable, and the service between the two cabins is even slightly better.

Second, Asia travels thousands of miles.

Asia miles, an integral plan operated by Cathay Pacific, covers not only all OW partners, but also other alliance undertakers (such as Air China) or non-alliance brothers in the Asia-Pacific region. I'm sure I've heard about these basics long ago. However, although the rules of Yawan are complicated, the part that can issue global tickets is limited to OW alliance partners, so the advanced skills of non-alliance ticket exchange are self-evident. Just compare with ANA.

Yawan official website wrote three ways of exchange. Although the round-the-world ticket is not listed separately, in fact, its final "one world reward conversion table" actually contains the round-the-world ticket game because of the high tolerance of line design.

In the same trip, stop at the starting point, transfer point or return point at most five times, transfer twice or terminate the trip twice. Translated into a standard, that is to say, the mileage required on a flight route with 8 flights with 5 stops and 2 flights of equal length is almost 20% more than that of ANA, and only a very long journey (round-trip flight between the northern and southern hemispheres) with more than 30,000 miles will be slightly cheaper. Moreover, the whole flight ticket needs at least one flight from Cathay Pacific or Dragonair, so the whole flight must not go around Hong Kong.

Asia TWA ticket exchange form:

Advantages: First of all, OW systems are basically airlines above the standard, which means it is easy to combine high-quality airlines, and the probability of encountering bad airlines is extremely low; Secondly, these boutique airlines are not only reflected in the high level of service and safety, but also in the goodwill of opening the number of free air tickets. Some friends around me exchanged three business class tickets on the same flight, while most flights of other alliances generally only released two business class free tickets for exchange, which means that Yawan made the global business class dream of a family of three possible; Finally, because Yawan does not have a rule that must be "global".

Yawan example 1

8 flight segments, 5 destinations, 2 openings, total flight distance 1967 1 mile, and transfer needs140,000 miles.

Beijing started all the way west, took Finnair's latest Airbus A350 to Helsinki, and then visited Copenhagen, Dü sseldorf, Barcelona and Madrid in turn. Dussel and Barcelona opened the door, drove across France, then flew directly from Madrid to Miami, took a cruise to the Caribbean, and then opened the door all the way to new york. On the way back, they flew to Vancouver for a few days, and finally flew to buy buy to buy them, and then went home in buy buy. The whole process requires three visas from the United States, Canada and Schengen, and the duration ranges from 20 days to 60 days.

Tooth pill example 2

8 flight segments, 5 destinations, 2 sails, total flight distance 17526 miles, exchange needs 135000 miles.

Non-round-the-world route, make full use of the Yawan stop-and-go rule, and make a two-month cruise along the Indian Ocean coast and the Arab world. From Beijing, we will transfer to Thailand in Hongkong, then open the door between Chiang Mai and Bangkok, fly from Bangkok to Amman, Jordan, explore the lost ancient city of Petra, then go to Tunisia, which has just granted visa-free access to China, discover the remains of ancient Carthage and the Roman Empire, and then fly to Doha, where we will be intoxicated for two days, and then go to Seychelles, the most beautiful island in the Indian Ocean for a holiday. At the end of the trip, we will pick tea, worship Buddha and watch whales in Sri Lanka, and finally fly back to Beijing directly from Colombo. Although this route is not around the world, it has one of the biggest highlights-you don't have to apply for a visa in advance at all, you can leave once and visit 7 countries!

The biggest bright spot

Is the easiest to get! Although you may rarely take OW flight, you can also put your mileage in Yawan by taking Air China. And most importantly, credit card points can be used to redeem mileage, including CITIC, Guangfa, Bank of Communications, Standard Chartered, HSBC, Citigroup and China Merchants Bank (classic white only), covering almost all prime banks except the four major state-owned banks and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. And many of them are the same as the three major airlines in Southeast Asia, and the proportion of points exchanged for Avan. Don't forget that Avan is miles, which is 1.6 times of kilometers, so this road is more valuable. Of course, like all other major international airlines, almost all hotel chain points can be redeemed for miles. In addition, many Hong Kong businesses and some domestic businesses can also spend a total of 20,000 yuan. See official website for details. It is not difficult to issue tickets. Yawan's all-Chinese customer service can be done quickly by phone.

If the biggest advantage of ANA ticketing is throttling (saving mileage), then Avan's advantage is open source. Swapping Avan for global business class is suitable for all the friends in this article who can't save enough miles for other airlines, especially credit card players and friends based in the Pearl River Delta (direct flights from Hong Kong).

Third, Japan Airlines

JAL's ticket exchange policy has the characteristics of ANA and Yawan: first of all, JAL, like Yawan, has no special round-the-world mileage ticket strategy, but it can fly around the world by redeeming a worldwide award ticket; In terms of the maximum number of stops and the friendliness of the exchange form, it is trying to keep up with ANA, or just a little bit. JL supports eight stops and seven stops, plus four openings, but the ground movement distance of the opening should be included in the total flight distance, so the opening is not cost-effective.

JAL TWA air ticket exchange form:

In the range of1.8 ~ 25,000 miles where round-the-world tickets most frequently appear, in most cases JL only costs 5,000 more than ANA, which is good.

JL and CX belong to OW, and the exchange rules are so similar that the advantages and disadvantages of the same alliance will not be described here.

In terms of mileage acquisition, JL is not as simple as Yawan, but it is much easier than NH. First of all, it also has a joint credit card-PUFA JAL card in China, and the mileage accumulation rate of this card is quite good, and there are many activities. It has long been a small god card of domestic airline alliance credit card. In terms of flights, although like CX, it is subject to OW's lack of Chinese mainland Airlines' shortcomings, JL has also signed a good friend of China Eastern Airlines, so don't worry about making up JAL miles? To tell the truth, JAL should be the second most difficult airline to obtain mileage among all the recommended airlines today.

Although JAL also has a Chinese customer service phone to support the redemption of mileage tickets, it is not skilled in this complicated rule. A friend took an exam two years ago, and even began to teach himself customer service on the phone, and then waited for a few days for the customer service to understand before changing. It is said that Japanese customer service will be more skilled.

Generally speaking, JL's performance in global business class mileage tickets is above average. In order to realize the dream of flying around the world as soon as possible, it is worth taking it as the daily main accumulation account. Its home is especially suitable for friends who have PUFA JAL credit cards, as well as friends in East China who want to fly China Eastern Airlines in the Yangtze River Delta but are reluctant to put all their miles in the most difficult-to-redeem Eastern Mileage.

SkyTeam is a Ukrainian alliance that most people in China are familiar with. When broadcasting on the plane, they usually call themselves SkyTeam (ST for short). However, almost all the most unsafe airlines in the world are here (South Korea, Garuda Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, China Airlines with the highest mortality rate). Gold card members of airlines can't use their friends' lounges when taking domestic flights, and often can't accumulate mileage after taking them. After accumulation, they can't save money for changing air tickets (the mileage required to change the same international route is almost twice that of the other two alliances, such as Delta and China Eastern Airlines). After saving enough, they may not have tickets to exchange.

4. Korean Air

Its policy is great. As long as it is a round-the-world ticket, regardless of the distance, economy class 14W and business class 22W are required. Up to 9 flight segments and up to 6 destinations, and there is no clear open policy. The above is a brief introduction, and the actual operation rules are more complicated. If you are interested, you can look at this gray part (there is nothing to lose by skipping it directly):

Regional division: Korean Air divides round-the-world travel tickets into three regions.

Area 1: North America/South America North America/South America

Region 2: Europe/Africa/Middle East Europe/Africa/Middle East.

Region 3: Asia/Oceania Asia/Oceania

Specific requirements such as transfer and stay:

The whole round-the-world ticket allows three connections to pass through an area (because it can only fly in one direction, each area can only pass once at most; But it is allowed to fly in countries in the region), you can get 2 extra connections, that is, up to 9 connections.

All tickets allow 3 stops (a-> b-& gt； C's trip, staying in B for a few days) and each area can get an extra 1 stop, that is, up to 6 stops.

Note: stopover is also a transfer (transfer within 24 hours is not counted as a stop), so if you choose to make full use of the number of stopovers, each region can complete two stopovers, leaving only one transfer.

In addition, the departure city cannot be used as a stopover city (if Shanghai is the starting point, then Shanghai can no longer be used as a stopover city in the whole trip).

The coverage of ST homes, except for the invincible high density in Greater China, is relatively non-mainstream in the world: Japan, Oceania, Indian Ocean Islands and Canada, which China people love, are almost blank, while in many developing countries, monkeys are called overlords. ) such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Russia, Africa, Mexico, etc.

Flight accumulation, although ST has a large number of members in China, due to the strict accumulation standards among airlines, and many cabins of China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines will be discounted or not included in KE, few people will put the flight mileage in KE. From this point of view, it is very difficult to get KE miles. For domestic players, there is almost no other way except SPG transfer. The reservation system is also inconvenient, so we can only make an appointment by telephone, and most customer service staff can hear the silly appearance through the phone.

Generally speaking, it is by no means the best choice to use South Korea's st Universal Tickets. I am afraid that the target audience is non-mainstream players who want to go to Indonesia, Vietnam and Mexico, or zi players who are tired of playing SA and OW and want to experience ST. One of the biggest advantages of st is the eastern stewardess's dress in South Korea and the most beautiful western stewardess's dress in Air France. In addition, some routes in South Korea, Delta and Air France are excellent business class experiences. But, but, but, Delta and South Korea are sworn enemies. Tickets are rarely released, and the business class of Air France is almost completely closed to alliance partners, so it is still not provided! In addition to Korea itself, what is really easy to change is China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines, which have long been tired of sitting, or China Airlines, Russian Airlines and Kenya Airways, as long as they dare to sit.

Non-Alliance Airlines v. Alaska Airlines

Its mileage redemption policy does not include global air tickets, but it can rely on a wide range of redemption strategies to DIY global air tickets.

Very simple and clear. As long as you choose the departure area and the arrival area, you can see the required mileage of all available airlines and different cabins between the two points. In fact, as long as you remember the highlight: 1, all exchange displays are mainly one-way. If you need to go back and forth, you can choose two one-ways. The two ways are not related, but each one-way way can have 1 stop loss points; 2. Each ticket only supports one cooperative airline or one cooperative airline+as an exchange, and does not support multiple cooperative airlines to mix and match tickets.

In this way, as long as you take three one-way trips from Asia to the United States (or Canada/Caribbean/Latin America), the United States to Europe (or Africa/Middle East) and Europe to Asia, you can travel around the world for one week, while the above-mentioned one-way business class only needs about 40,000-60,000 miles per trip, so a trip only needs about 6,543,800+0,500 yuan. In addition to the departure point, there can be five stops, two of which and the departure/end point can be openings, and the opening distance is arbitrary, and it is no problem to cross the intercontinental opening.

It is particularly noteworthy that AS supports Asia-North America travel via Dubai and issues tickets with Emirates Airlines! This method requires105,000 business class and180,000 first class. Although it is twice as expensive as direct flights to North America, after all, you can experience the two cabins of Tuhao Airlines that many people yearn for, and you can stay in Dubai at will. In other words, in fact, as long as two air tickets from Asia to North America, a normal trans-Pacific flight and a transatlantic flight to the United Arab Emirates, you can complete the feat of traveling around the world. In this way, the business class only needs 654.38+0.55 million miles, and the price/performance ratio is ok.

On the Asia-North America route, the available airlines include Hainan Airlines, Japan Airlines, American Airlines and Cathay Pacific. Of course, there are also South Korea and Delta, but after reading the exchange table, I will not choose it. Delta Business Class 140000 is 40% more expensive than UAE bypassing Dubai! For friends outside the Pearl River Delta, Cathay Pacific is not recommended, because the evil CX has transferred all flights to the mainland to its second-class brother Dragonair, and Dragonair's route can't transit through Alaska, which means that if as is used for CX, Hong Kong will have to pay for air tickets. The main airlines that can be selected for the US-Europe itinerary are British Airways, Air France, American Airlines, icelandair (highlighted ~) and Emirates Airlines. In Europe and Asia, sorry, only Cathay Pacific has no semicolon, so the ticket money for going home is inevitable.

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In addition, since the partner airlines include Qantas, Fiji Airways and Hawaiian Airlines, as's ticket exchange network in the Pacific Ocean is outstanding, even surpassing any of the three major alliances. Pacific island jumping tour, let's go!

Alaska Airlines Example 1

Six flight segments, four destinations, two voyages, total flight distance 18234 miles, and exchange need 147500 miles.

From Beijing, Hainan Airlines flies to Seattle. A few days later, I flew AS to Orlando, visited seven Disney parks in a week, then drove to the south of the east coast of the United States, visited Harvard University in Boston, flew to Reykjavik, and drove around Iceland to experience real fire and ice. Then fly to Paris to experience the most beautiful city in the world, and then go to Hong Kong to eat pear orchards for good luck. Finally, I finished my trip by eating Haisai at Shilin Night Market in Taipei.

Alaska Airlines Example 2

For the 4th and 3rd destinations, the total flying distance is 187 15 miles, and the exchange needs 155000 miles.

The global route with the least number of stops and the shortest total time. Or start from Beijing, take American Airlines to Dallas to experience the Texas cowboy style, then go to new york to experience the world capital, and then the focus of this trip-take new york, one of the top ten longest routes of Emirates in the world, to Dubai, to stroll around the world of local tyrants, and finally fly straight back to Beijing. The whole trip is the fastest 10 days is ok, and an American visa will do. If your mileage is large, you can add another 75,000 miles, take these two segments of Emirates to the top, and experience the most luxurious air travel in the world. At an altitude of 10,000 meters, you can roll in a spacious big bed and take a shower.