This of course does not mean there will be any Lufthansa First
Class award space for the particular flight you want, just that you won't be able to book it, if available, further in advance than that.
Days with dots have Business
Class award space for two.
Right at the end of last month American Airlines opened up a surprising amount of Business
Class award space for flights between the US and various European cities - award space which, by and large, is still available - and now some First Class award space appears to have opened up as well.
Asiana has excellent business
class award space for this summer.
One of the best parts of Korean Air is that they actually release enough first
class award space for several people on some of their flights.
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For those who book economy
class award tickets, you'll love the fact that you will also receive access to extra economy
award space.
Redeeming points
for travel through Korean Air gives you access to SkyTeam first
class award space, which isn't possible using Delta miles
Landing a premium
class award ticket in First or Business
class on Singapore has traditionally been a difficult task
for North American points and miles collectors due to the common Singapore Airlines practice of offering first and business
class award space almost solely to members of their own KrisFlyer program.
Just as if you were searching
for an
award flight on Delta, you can use Delta's online
award search function to find Korean Air business
class award space:
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.
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for free and may use the Obedience buildings
for training when the
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for classes or other club activities.
Start looking
for business
class award space as soon as you know the routes you want to fly and what days you are free to fly them.
If you are more flexible and using a partner program to book, start looking
for Lufthansa first
class award space 15 days prior to your departure.
Even if you need
award space for a flight within 3 or 4 months, it is not uncommon to find business
class space for 1 to 3 people.
While this is more of an issue with first
class award space, you should also note that the Asia Miles program does have increased access to
award space for business
class.
I'll search
for a business
class award between Los Angeles (LAX) and Hong Kong (HKG) because these two cities have four flights a day; there's a good chance that business
class award space will be available.
For those who love flying business
class, try to find
award space out of Boston on one of Air France's Boeing 777s.
If you are looking
for Singapore Airlines
award space, be aware that you can not book Singapore Suites or first
class awards with Aeroplan miles.
Recently, some international business
class award space between Australia and Singapore has been available to partners
for award bookings.
Emirates does not have a regular schedule
for releasing business
class award space to their partner airlines.
Unfortunately, it's very rare
for a partner to have access to international business
class award space on Singapore Airlines.
If your travel plans aren't very flexible, Asia Miles could be your best bet
for finding first
class award space.
I set out to determine which cities I should focus on
for my search to find either business or first
class award space.
It used to cost 70,000 miles
for a one - way First
Class award from the US to Korea (and other parts of Asia), so I booked the
space for the first week of March — if I needed to cancel or change my booking, I could do so
for free as a Premier Platinum.
Quick tip: if you are planning on using miles to upgrade, search
for business
class award space prior to booking your premium economy ticket.
Award space is pretty reliable
for travel from / to USA and I have seen instances where there are as many as 4 business
class awards on a flight.
But SkyMiles members aren't permitted to redeem miles
for international first
class, so there's no reason that Delta would display this
award space.
If you can find saver
space on Delta, you can get a round trip business
class award within US
for 45,000 miles.
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Though Delta isn't known
for offering a generous amount of
award space to its partners, I was able to find four first -
class award seats available in August from Denver to Maui via Los Angeles and Seattle using the online
award search engine
for Alaska Airlines, which you don't even need an account to use.
United will search all cabin
classes for award space, so there is no need to choose a cabin when beginning the search even though a menu is available.
If you're struggling to find
award space for your departure, you might consider booking Suites
class back to the states.
While it makes it easier to search
for Singapore Airlines
award space online (United blocks it) it nevertheless prohibits
award travel in first or business
class on Singapore Airlines on flights operated by the Boeing 777 - 300ER or Airbus A380 - 800.
For those who book economy
class award tickets, you'll love the fact that you will also receive access to extra economy
award space.
Just as if you were searching
for an
award flight on Delta, you can use Delta's online
award search function to find Korean Air business
class award space:
Unlike airlines such as Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa, Emirates does not have a regular schedule
for releasing first
class award space to their partner airlines.
For business
class, I came across a ton of phantom
award space.
If you're looking
for easy access to first
class award space, look no further than Korean Air.
Quick tip: if you are planning on using your miles to upgrade, search
for Business
Class award space prior to booking your Premium Economy ticket.
According to The Lazy Traveler's Handbook (and shared by Million Mile Secrets) you can find extremely rare
award space for Singapore Airlines Suites
Class on routes from the United States.
Next to Delta you'll find that they offer some of the best
award space between North America and Europe
for 150,000 miles in business
class.
It's also great to see so much
award space available
for anyone wanting to try the aircraft or the Thai Business
Class product out.
The whole trip falls under 20,000 flying miles and would cost me only 115,000 ANA miles in Business
class provided I can find
award space for all these segments.
Cathay Pacific is notorious
for releasing First
Class award space a few days prior to departure.
This means that AAdvantage members who find and book
award space before this deadline could save thousands of miles, especially
for business - and first -
class travel.
Unfortunately, South African Airways Business
Class award space from New York to Johannesburg is abysmal (you can look
for it by searching United or LifeMiles).
When
award space is availble, it's not too difficult to find an economy
class award ticket
for 25,000 miles instead of paying $ 500 (valuing miles at 2 cents each), or an international business
class award ticket
for 120,000 miles instead of $ 6,000 (valuing miles at 5 cents each).
Membership Rewards points were,
for a while, the easiest way to accumulate miles in some programs like Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer
for better access to their business and first
class award space.