I looked on BA's website and saw
Business awards seats available.
It's rare to find more than two
business award seats available on the same flight, but I've often seen four and six economy seats available.
This flight frequently has two first class and two
business award seats available, making it a good option for those originating in Canada.
Not exact matches
The next time you search for
business class
award space to Seoul, South Korea on Korean Air's site, you'll notice they even let you know how many
seats are
available to be booked with Korean SkyPass miles.
Speaking of
award availability I seem to be seeing 5
seats available in Economy and 2 in
Business for most flights.
Since
business travel plummets during holiday weeks, airlines often make first - class
awards available at the saver
award level even when economy
seats are selling like hotcakes.
For almost a year now I've had ExpertFlyer alerts out for
Business Class
awards on 6 different routes to / from Europe (for a friend of mine) and not one single
award seat has been made
available — that's not exactly impressive.
It's important to remember that not all
award seats that are shown on the Etihad Guest website are
available to be booked using AAdvantage Miles — Etihad needs to have «Guest
Business»
awards available for there to be availability for AAdvantage miles redemptions.
OneMileAtATime has noticed that
award availability on this new route appears to be wide open with as many as 6
Business Class
seats available on some flights.
You can often find several
business class
seats available for
award bookings just days prior to departure.
Secondly, this sees a significant decrease in the number of
Business Class
seats available on the route and that's not going to be good for upgrades or the already pathetic
award availability.
On the United website I found
business class
award seats at 130,000 miles
available for my round - trip to Dublin.
As I was playing around with the British Airways Search tool, I noticed that there are as many as 6
business class
award seats available for travelling to India next week.
These
awards are
available as long as there are still
seats available on the flight, though
Business Select and Wan na Get Away
awards are capped.
There is a Saver
award business class
seat available for your destination.
While a route serviced by an A350 should be an aircraft where premium
award seats can be made
available, it's likely that availability for
business class
seats will be scarce so I wouldn't rely on booking these
seats with partners like United.
Most people will want to pick a nonstop flight and only the Asiana flight has an
award seat available in
Business Class, so I'm going to pick that one (it's 60,000 miles for the one - way plus $ 77.50 in taxes).
So since Alaska lets you redeem for JAL premium economy, you shouldn't have any trouble finding those
seats when first &
business class
awards aren't
available.
Sure, it might seem a little early to start thinking about your summer 2016 Euro trip, but when there's
business - class
award seats available during peak season, it's worth planning far in advance.
This used to be an absolute «secret weapon» when it comes to
award availability, given that there were often at least first and
business class
award seats available.
No longer do you have to hope that American has roundtrip
seats available if you're looking for a JFK - LAX
award ticket in
business class.
Awards are now
available, although first class and to a lesser extent
business class space is very limited — on many dates, there are no first class and
business class
award seats, or just 1 first class and / or 1
business class
award seat is
available.
The headline here is that there will be 9 fewer
business class
seats available, which means there won't be quite the
award availability you may have hoped on the new planes.
It's not unusual to see a couple of first and
business class
award seats available on that flight.
On the return, there was only one first
award seat available so I locked that in and my partner is in
business.
But Joe Brancatelli, editor of JoeSentMe.com, a noncommercial website for
business travelers, warns that
award travel will be increasingly difficult to book as the airline
business atrophies and
available seats become limited.
It has trouble with some partner
award availability and pulling up
awards with mixed cabins (for instance, if one flight has a
business - class
seat availability but the next segment only has economy
awards available), though that seems to have gotten better lately.
When there are six or fewer
seats available for
awards, that fact is noted in the search results, and yet that fact is not noted in the screenshot above meaning there are 7 +
award seats in
Business Class on each flight that you can book with American Airlines miles.
I found 4
award seats available from MAD - DOH on QR0148 in
business on 28 - Jun but when I called AA, they said no
business class is
available.