Unfortunately, if you're looking to fly Air France First Class, you have no choice but to book these high rates through the Flying Blue program (since Air France makes First
Class award seats only available to Flying Blue elite members).
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Generally, the
only time it makes sense to book a British Airways first
class award is by using the British Airways Travel Together Ticket so you can get 2 first
class seats for the miles of on.
This includes
award travel on their brand new Airbus A380 Suites and Business
Class seats, which can
only be booked with KrisFlyer Miles.
Using a MileSAAver
award, a business
class seat to the same destinations would cost
only 25,000 miles.
But under a flexible
award chart, that same business -
class seat to Europe is
only 125,000 miles, or even less with some airlines.
Two caveats: You can't buy a first
class seat with miles from Delta, and if you're able to fly during the low season, you can get an off - peak
award ticket in economy from American or US Airways for
only 15,000 miles.
Lufthansa generally
only releases
award seats to partners within a week or so of departure, so you can book business
class and change to first -
class if availability opens up.
Under this type of program, Cathay would
only award status - earning points to travellers who purchase premium cabin
seats or the most expensive economy
class seats (which are often just as expensive as the cheapest premium cabin
seats).
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.
Lufthansa first -
class seats on many planes include a bed completely separate from your
seat, but it is one of the hardest
awards to get and they
only appear on partners» websites a couple weeks before take - off.
Generally, the
only time it makes sense to book a British Airways first
class award is by using the British Airways Travel Together Ticket so you can get 2 first
class seats for the miles of on.
On top of that, as ExpertFlyer shows, there's
only one Business
Class SAAver
award seat in either direction so I'm guessing they're not going to be around for long.
Booking directly with Miles & More
award miles is the easiest way to get in Lufthansa's coveted first
class cabin, for which
seats only open for partner airlines» frequent flyer bookings two weeks before departure, and SWISS first
class, which is
only open to Miles & More members.
Typically Cathay Pacific, for example, releases
only ONE First
Class award seat per flight until a few days before the flight.
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).
As you can see, while at the moment American's domestic first
class award price is
only 32,500, starting March 22nd the price for that
seat will be 50,000 miles one way.
Availability: Typically Singapore
only releases 1 suites
class award seat in advance, although occasionally you'll see 2
award seats available close to the date of departure.
They generally
only release first
class award seats to partner airlines within two weeks of travel, so your approach is probably similar to Cathay Pacific in terms of booking something else and then changing to Lufthansa.
The
award chart is somewhat competitive, and some premium
class award seats are made available to members while
only being released two weeks in advance to partners.
And while this isn't Jen's situation, since she has first
class award tickets on Singapore, note that only Business and First Class award ticket holders are able to select seats in advance on Singapore Airl
class award tickets on Singapore, note that
only Business and First
Class award ticket holders are able to select seats in advance on Singapore Airl
Class award ticket holders are able to select
seats in advance on Singapore Airlines.
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.