While making the List Of Airline Miles Stopover Rules, we decided to make another award chart, this time an Asiana Airlines Award Chart.
It may not be as important as our AA award chart or Flying Blue award chart, since it required little research and the program isn’t as important as AA. Also, I think the only major transfer partner is Marriott.
But the reasonable award chart and the 7 stopovers made it interesting to me, so I wanted to see the award chart in standard format, US based, and in oneways.
Asiana Club Miles Award Chart
All prices are in oneways:
Conclusion
There are lots of interesting things on this award chart. Like for some reason many airlines in Asia, Hawaii, and Central America are in the same region.
As far as I know, 40k/50k is the cheapest business/first class to Europe.
However, unless you have a ton of Marriott points, I don’t foresee this being a popular option.
Still, I’ll also be adding this to the List Of Airline Award Charts (which is found on the Resource page).
Bank of America of course issues an Asiana credit card. 30k bonus / 2x on gas and groceries / $100 annual rebate on Asiana travel purchases (eg fuel surcharges) / 10k annual bonus miles / $99 annual fee.
Years ago this card offered 2x on all spend!
What about fuel surcharges?
Can you transfer Ultimate Rewards to Marriott and then transfer to Asiana to do this? thanks
are Star alliance stopovers only allowed with 8 segments or more? I am a little unclear by the wording. If there are only 3 segments how many stopovers can I have?
I just ran into a strange and not well known restriction with the Asiana Club program: they will not allow “transits” on domestic US/Canada flight and charge 25K for EACH segment as a result (total 50K pp, all round trip prices)
We booked YVR-YYZ-YYG (flying in June) and were charged 50K miles p.p.
There is a cryptic reference to this limitation on the Asiana website which seems completely bogus:
Asiana club->.Star alliance/Partner airlines->Notes for reservations and ticket issuance
TransitTwo(2) transits are allowed between the departure city and the destination. Transfers are allowed only when they are included in the M.P.M. between the place of departure and the destination, and only when a fare, the basic unit of the ticket, exists. (Transit is available only on routes for which MPM is specified by IATA. Miles shall be redeemed for itineraries that only consist of domestic routes, also Mexico from and to elsewhere in the Americas, Canada from and to elsewhere in the Americas, and New Zealand from and to Australia routes, none of which are specified in the MPM.)
We contacted Asiana by phone several times but got nowhere. Also, they charged $40 Fuel Surcharge per ticket on these domestic flights (on top of the taxes).
I have a hard time believing that no MPMs are published for domestic routes anyway but I can’t check that myself.
Yes, I know using Asiana miles for a domestic flight is not the best use but we have a hard time using the miles as a non-married couple. This flight was for my partner and her son, which is allowed.