The week I'm prepared to travel (10 — 16 December 2016) there is no First
Class award availability between London and Abu Dhabi («Guest First» has to show as available if you are to book Etihad First Class with AAdvantage Miles):
Not exact matches
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:
The program generally has good
award availability, including premium
classes on transpacific routes
between the U.S. and Asia, which are notoriously hard to get with miles.
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.
As stated,
award availability for (saver) business
class to New Zealand on United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with business
class seats
between the US and Australia / New Zealand.
I was doing some research for another blog post I have in mind and I came across a discrepancy
between the British Airways website and Iberia's website when it comes to Business
Class award availability.
Includes: Some great Business
Class fares
between the UK and the US, details of amazing American Airlines Business
Class award availability, the latest Amex travel offers you should be signing up for (if targeted), news of the first major 3Q hotel promotion and a lot more.
Virgin Australia offers the most
award availability in business
class between the U.S. and Australia, as well as the best routing.
At the moment American has tons of business
class award availability for travel next summer
between the US and Europe.
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).
«For example, 67,500 miles is enough for a one - way ticket in Cathay Pacific first
class between the US and Asia» If you are lucky enough to find the
award availability in CX
For instance, there is plenty of
award availability both on United and other Star Alliance carriers
between Melbourne and Los Angeles in both economy and business
class the last week in January...