Sentences with phrase «class award space about»

Bookable with Delta SkyMiles (80,000 — 95,000 miles each way) or Virgin America Elevate miles (45,000 miles one way), Virgin Australia tends to release good Business Class award space about 1 — 2 weeks before departure.

Not exact matches

While we often talk about booking United business class and first class, this extra economy award space can be extremely useful when you need to book a flight but ticket prices are sky high.

Unlike Lufthansa first class award space, which is only released to partners about 2 weeks prior to departure, business class is available long before that.

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Since then Virgin Australia (one of their more useful partners) has just about completely stopped releasing business class award space.

An alternative is to go via Tahiti or Fiji with decent award space, and you can read about that below in the Business Class section.

They're also reasonably good about releasing first class award space, though it's not as much of a guarantee.

While their primary hub is in Madrid, Iberia is fairly good about releasing business class award space between Miami and Barcelona, especially in light of the fact that they're not otherwise all that great about releasing award space.

This is one of the reasons I almost never can get excited about the various US Airways promotions — they block Lufthansa first class award space.

Air France flies from Toronto to Paris and has good business class award space, so this is a good way to get to just about anywhere in Europe for cheap.

I'd recommend using United miles to book Lufthansa first class — you avoid the higher surcharges that are now charged with Aeroplan awards, you don't face Starnet blocking as you do with US Airways (more about that below) and you use a lot fewer miles than you would with Miles & More miles, although it's true that only Lufthansa's Miles & More members get advance access to first class award space.

Japan Airlines offers one of my other all around favorite first class products in the world, and they're pretty good about releasing award space last minute as well.

As I explained yesterday in my post about booking domestic awards with American Airlines miles, award space is wide open in First Class from New York to Los Angeles or San Francisco.

Anyway, there's no doubt that Cathay Pacific isn't quite as generous about releasing first class award space as in the past.

But space does open up before that as well — typically about one to two weeks out, Cathay Pacific will open all but three first class seats for awards.

@ AsiaFlyer — Not quite as reliably, but Cathay Pacific is fairly good about opening last minute business class award space within Asia, so I'd keep monitoring.

Yesterday I wrote about a discovery that shocked me: American Airlines is releasing consistent MileSAAver award space on its flagship and newest plane — the 777 - 300ER — in Business Class and First Class between Los Angeles and London.