There appears to be plenty of
Business Class award availability from London to the US....
Not exact matches
Here we had a stroke of luck, depending on how you look at it: while the direct service flight
from Los Angeles did not show
availability for a
Business Class or First Class Saver Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
Class or First
Class Saver Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
Class Saver
Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
Award on most dates, a mixed
class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
award connecting through San Francisco was available.
It looks to me like Lufthansa has just recently released quite a bit of partner
award availability for travel
from the US to Europe this summer in
Business Class.
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:
When I flew to Tokyo in January I had to position
from London to Frankfurt to catch a JAL
Business Class award flight on the 787 Dreamliner and when I had wanted to try out Cathay Pacific First
Class last year I had to position
from London to Zurich to catch that
award flight — London isn't exactly awash with
award availability.
The 777 - 300 offers 52
Business Class seats while the Dreamliner has just 28 so, not only is the route losing First
Class, it will also see a significant drop in
Business Class capacity
from 15 December — that's not good for prices or for
award availability.
There appears to be a very poor Delta
business class, nonstop
award availability in Europe
from Seattle.
On the redemption side, the
award chart to /
from Europe isn't too bad (62,500 miles for a transatlantic one - way in
business class) and you get access to much better
availability on AF / KL's own flights that when booking with Delta.
There's also been some great
business -
class award availability from the west coast to Europe, and some new routes
from the US to the UK will be opening up in the coming months.
The
award space in
business class on Skyteam members Saudia (
from Washington DC or New York, through Riyadh and Jeddah) and Aeroflot (a much better airline than you think, and with great
availability out of New York and DC through Moscow) is better than on almost any airline.