Overview of ANA Award Taxes and Fees: Part 3

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This is part 3 of my series calculating the cost of award tickets using ANA miles. In Part 1 I priced out itineraries on Air Canada, ANA, Lufthansa, Singapore, SWISS, Thai Airways, Turkish Airlines, United and US Airways. In Part 2, I looked at Adria, Aegean, Air China, Air New Zealand, Asiana, Austria, Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Copa and Virgin Atlantic. In this part, I’ve found the taxes and surcharges on partners: Croatia Airlines, EgyptAir, Ethiopian Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, SAS, Shenzhen, South African Airways, TAM and TAP.

ANA is a Japanese carrier that is a member of Star Alliance and its award search engine is one of the best ways to find Star Alliance availability. ANA is also a transfer partner of American Express Membership Rewards (transfers usually take about 48 hours) – which you earn on cards like the Premier Rewards Gold and the Platinum – and Starwood Preferred Guest (transfers can take up to a couple weeks), which makes it a very versatile program to maximize when it comes time to redeem some of those points for an award on a Star Alliance carrier or its other partners such as Virgin Atlantic.

However, ANA levies sometimes huge fuel surcharges on many of its partners. To even search for award availability, you need ANA miles in your account, and in order to actually see the fees and taxes on tickets, though, you have to have the miles necessary to book an award in your account, which makes transferring miles in from one of the partner programs a bit of a gamble. I have the miles in my ANA account already, though, so I wanted to do a series going through awards on each of ANA’s airline partners and looking at the taxes and fees associated with each.

To get a good cross-section from which to extrapolate, I looked at award availability for specific segments – both international and regional – so that I could find how much the taxes and fees would be for various routes on ANA’s partners in both economy and business classes. The fee structure is similar on many of these awards whether you’re flying from Los Angeles or New York to Frankfurt, for example, so this is really just a cross-section from which to estimate what your taxes and fees will be on each particular carrier. By choosing which partner you fly carefully, you can save hundreds of dollars in taxes and fees.

Once I find all these redemptions on ANA’s Star Alliance and other partners, I’ll put together a comprehensive spreadsheet with estimates of taxes and fees to help you plot out your next award. For now, here is the next round of airlines.

INTRA-EUROPEAN
Route: Zagreb – Amsterdam
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 20,000
Taxes and Fees: $172.40 USD

Route: Zagreb – Amsterdam
Class: Business
Miles Required: 38,000
Taxes and Fees: $172.40 USD

EGYPTAIR

TRANSATLANTIC
Route: Cairo – New York (JFK)
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 60,000
Taxes and Fees: $682.70 USD

Route: Cairo – New York (JFK)
Class: Business
Miles Required: 90,000
Taxes and Fees: $687.70 USD

EUROPEAN
Route: Cairo – Paris (CDG)
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 22,000
Taxes and Fees: $370.50 USD

Route: Cairo – Paris (CDG)
Class: Business
Miles Required: 43,000
Taxes and Fees: $417.40 USD

INTERNATIONAL
Route: Addis Ababa – Washington, D.C. (IAD)
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 65,000
Taxes and Fees: $458.02 USD

Route: Addis Ababa – Washington, D.C. (IAD)
Class: Business
Miles Required: 105,000
Taxes and Fees: $458.02 USD

REGIONAL
Route: Addis Ababa – Dire Dawa
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 20,000
Taxes and Fees: $42.20 USD

LOT POLISH AIRLINES

TRANSATLANTIC
Route: Chicago – Warsaw
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 55,000
Taxes and Fees: $453.80 USD

TRANSATLANTIC
Route: Chicago-Stockholm
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 43,000
Taxes and Fees: $575.00 USD

INTRA-EUROPEAN
Route: Stockholm-Amsterdam
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 20,000
Taxes and Fees: $162.80 USD

Route: Stockholm-Amsterdam
Class: Business
Miles Required: 38,000
Taxes and Fees: $162.80 USD

DOMESTIC
Route: Guangzhou – Chengdu
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 20,000
Taxes and Fees: $58.20 USD

Route: Guangzhou – Chengdu
Class: First
Miles Required: 60,000
Taxes and Fees: $58.20 USD

 

SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS

TRANS-ATLANTIC
Route: Washington (Dulles) – Johannesburg
Class: Economy
Miles: 65,000
Taxes and Fees: $502.00 USD

Route: Washington (Dulles) – Johannesburg
Class: Business
Miles: 105,000
Taxes and Fees: $596.00 USD

REGIONAL
Route: Johannesburg – Accra
Class: Economy
Miles: 38,000
Taxes and Fees: 341.60 USD

Route: Johannesburg – Accra
Class: Business
Miles: 63,000
Taxes and Fees: 421.60 USD

DOMESTIC
Route: Johannesburg – Capetown
Class: Economy
Miles: 20,000
Taxes and Fees: $124.60 USD (had to call to price out fees)

Route: Lisbon – Newark
Class: Business
Miles Required: 63,000
Taxes and Fees: $938.90 USD

INTRA-EUROPEAN
Route: Lisbon – Madrid
Class: Economy
Miles Required: 20,000
Taxes and Fees: $154.40 USD

Route: Lisbon – Madrid
Class: Business
Miles Required: 38,000
Taxes and Fees: $154.40 USD

Stay tuned for the next installment where I’ll be looking at non-Star Alliance travel partners including Etihad, EVA, Hawaiian Airlines, Jet Airways and Qatar Airways.