谈谈我最近在大搞的航空里程和酒店免费住宿

为了将来能少花费就游欧及象K大侠，蓝MM和梦女侠等去非洲看动物爬Kili，俺最近在南加真是上窜下跳，大搞航空里程和酒店免费住宿：）

1. Budget租车拿5000Delta达美里程

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.

链接：

https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/partners/partners/delta5000.html

过去两个月，俺租了七次，每次一般两天。当然，这跟俺喜欢开车也有关系：）

2. Mariott万豪集团，从5月1日起，每次入住将获得5000达美奖励里程

链接：

https://www.marriott.com/rewards/promotion.mi?promotion=DE10

从5月1日起，每次入住Mariott下各品牌将获得5000达美奖励里程，从第2次入住开始计算。

必须先注册优惠，并且将账号里的积攒选择变成里程，然后把达美的号码存到账户里。优惠截止日期为9月6日。

为了降低成本，可用Kayak.com先进行比价，



Mariott官网有最低价保证（链接：http://www.marriott.com/hotel-rates/travel.mi），若你能找到比其官网更低的价钱，它会match，再减掉25%。

我已经按这样的办法，订了六晚，每晚也就60刀左右。订的Mariott都含早含上网。

通过1和2，我大概可以搞到超过10万的达美里程，虽然这期间一次他家的飞机都没飞过：）

3. 住Hyatt凯悦拿27500AA里程

链接：

http://www.aa.com/netsaaver/viewPromotionDetails.do?fN=Hyatt25000Offer_0510.xml&locale=en_US

凯悦在住2送一的基础上又带来了一个强大的优惠，从5月3日到7月5日， 每次入住可获得3000英里的美国航空公司额外奖励里程，住5次后，再多送1万里程，总共25000奖励里程外加2500基础里程，外加2.5个免费晚上。

下面ZT（上面也有部分摘自他的博客）和乐飞游博客关于最佳航空里程的总结：

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.

文章里的链接要直接去原文才可打开。

原文链接：
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/tmtravelworld/2010/05/16/my-take-on-the-very-best-airline-mileage-award-values/