Award flight availability between New York and Juan SantamarĂa International Airport is usually very good.
Not exact matches
While several airlines, including United, Japan Airlines, and All Nippon Airways, offer direct
flights between New York and Tokyo, Korean Air offers the most frequent flyer
award availability — useful for us, since we only had a little bit of schedule flexibility — and is a transfer partner of Chase, whose points we had already started to earn.
If
availability for this
flight were to dry up
between now and when Elena books, looking at
flights to JFK, MIA, DFW or ORD instead of all the way to MSP would again be a good option, opting to pay a very small amount for a domestic one - way as opposed to skipping out on the transatlantic
award altogether.
Availability in the other direction (Auckland to Doha) is pretty good do and, in this case, there are actually 4 Business Class
awards available on the very first Qatar Airways non-stop
flight between Auckland and Doha:
BA.com showed Business Class
award availability on most Cathay Pacific
flights between Tokyo and Hong Kong on my chosen date but, rather than just book the
flight with the best timings, there was one last thing to take into consideration.
Take a look a these screenshots from American Airlines — all show Business Class
award availability on non-stop
flights between various US cities and London Heathrow:
Most programs offer better rates for
flights between the U.S. and Israel, though it might make sense to purchase an
award ticket if there's no
availability on other airlines.
Because it's not that rare to find Business Class
flights between the US and London coming in at under $ 2,000 and, on top of that, if you're booking an
award you still have the issue of finding
availability... and that hasn't been easy in recent years.
Since you'll never find
award availability on that route, the best deal is for
flights between Australia and New Zealand.
If there are no
flights between your selected airports, then you receive this error message suggesting that you try the
Award Seat
Availability search page:
Delta is actually the best for booking Australia business class
awards, one of the toughest frequent flyer
awards out there, because of their partnership with Virgin Australia (which has the best
availability non-stop
between the U.S. and Australia, especially on their Los Angeles — Brisbane
flight).