Aegean Miles+Bonus Business Class awards compared to United Mileage Plus

In a few months, after my next two trips to Europe on SAS Scandinavian Airlines to Stockholm and return from Oslo, and after ‘Aegean Together’ pooling with my wife’s Aegean Miles+Bonus miles, I will have about 130,000 redeemable miles for Miles+Bonus award travel.

I spent a few hours looking at award charts and figuring out where I see value with my Aegean miles.

Here are some sample award travel tickets in Business Class and for some of these tickets I compared the same award ticket booked through United Mileage Plus. While award ticket fees are comparable between Aegean award tickets and United award tickets for different Star Alliance carriers, there are significant discrepancies in the miles required.

Aegean has award tickets for fewer miles for many flights in different regions of the world.

San Francisco to Lisbon Business Class award

Aegean 45,000 miles; United 70,000 miles one way

Aegean Miles+Bonus 45,000 miles + €4.95 one way

TAP Portugal TP236 nonstop Feb 6, 2020

United Airlines Star Alliance award chart for USA to Europe is 70,000 miles in Business Class for a Saver Award.

San Francisco to Lisbon Business Class award one way

Aegean Miles+Bonus 70,000 miles + $5.60 one way

TAP Portugal TP236 nonstop Feb 6, 2020

San Francisco to London Business Class award

Aegean 45,000 miles; United 70,000 miles one way

Aegean Miles+Bonus Business Class Award

Scandinavia SAS  SFO-Copenhagen-London LHR

Wed April 3    45,000 miles + €17.42 one way

United Mileage Plus Business Class Award

Scandinavia SAS  SFO-Copenhagen-London LHR

Wed April 3    70,000 miles + $94.70 one way

I did not see the same SAS flight itinerary on United Mileage Plus I saw on Aegean Miles+Bonus.

Bogota, Colombia to Buenos Aires, Argentina Business Class Award

Aegean 21,000 miles; United 45,000 miles one way

Aegean Airlines charges 21,000 miles one way for travel anywhere in Central and South America given the limitation of only two flight segments allowed on an award ticket.

Avianca Airlines Business Class one way AV 87 Bogota BOG – Buenos Aires EZE

United Airlines Mileage Plus charges 40,000 miles for this same Business Class ticket between Northern South America and Southern South America flying Avianca nonstop.

Tokyo, Japan to Singapore Business Class Award 

Aegean 21,000 miles; United 45,000 miles one way

Sat April 6 Aegean Business Class award 21,000 miles + €77 

ANA Tokyo-Shanghai NRT-PVG NH921

Singapore Airlines Shanghai-Singapore PVG-SIN SQ825

Sat April 6 Tokyo-Singapore United Airlines Mileage Plus Business Class Award

45,000 miles + $120.80 one way award

For some reason, United Mileage Plus website can’t return search results including Singapore Airlines flights [magnify image below by clicking on it to read United Mileage Plus note on Singapore Airlines]. Many of the award tickets I found searching Aegean Miles+Bonus in Asia-Pacific region were Singapore Airlines award flights in Business Class.

London LHR to KRT Khartoum, Sudan  Aegean 25,000 miles; United 55,000 miles

Aegean Miles+Bonus Business Class award

Sat June 15 London LHR – Addis Ababa ADD – Khartoum, Sudan KRT

25,000 miles + €256.26 one way Ethiopian Airlines

United Mileage Plus Business Class award = no availability online.

Ultimately I may not even use our Aegean Miles+Bonus miles for Business Class award tickets despite their relatively low cost miles compared to United Airlines Mileage Plus. My ultimate concern is getting from point A to point B on the date I need and an economy ticket might be far more valuable to me than a business class splurge.

No denying however that there are some good value award travel flight deals using Aegean Miles+Bonus miles for business class award tickets between many cities around the world.