Qantas, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Delta, American, and United are also very stingy with Business
Class award space from North America to Australia and New Zealand.
For example, as you can see below there's Qantas first
class award space from Los Angeles to Melbourne, though it's for March 3, 2015, which is outside the window which AAdvantage members can book.
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).
Not exact matches
Nevertheless, British Airways does have great first and business
class products as well as generally decent
award space from the U.S. to Europe, as long as you are willing to pay the surcharges.
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.
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.
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Class Award Space to Europe for Just 25,000 Miles Each Way, Airlines Steal
from Passengers, and a Pilot's Inflight Proposal
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.
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.
Award space is wide open on the new A350 Delta Business
Class route
from Atlanta to Seoul.
Award space is wide open on the new A350 Delta Business
Class route
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Look at how great
award space is in First
Class on the Newark to /
from Los Angeles and San Francisco flights after October 25.
-LSB-...] There's plentiful
award space in business
class — on fully flat beds — for 120k miles roundtrip for flights completed by May 31, 2014 and 140k miles roundtrip for flights
from June 1, 2014 on.
Your secret weapon for Business
Class award space to Europe this summer is United's daily seasonal flight
from Newark to Hamburg.
That means 40 days in the next two months do have
award space for two people in Business
Class direct
from Newark to Hamburg.
With MileagePlus you can then take Air New Zealand flights
from Sydney to New Zealand on the same
award ticket, though there's often no Business
Class space on the short 3 hour Sydney to New Zealand flight, so you may have to suck it up in coach for that leg.
You may have already figured this out, Nancy, but my parents were trying to book a flight
from Seattle to New Zealand on United Business
class, and were also very frustrated by the lack of
award space.
Virgin Australia went
from a glut of
award space in Business
Class from the United States to Australia that you could book with Delta miles to basically none.
Etihad A380 First
Class Award Space is now available to Australia, via Ben, which means you can use AAdvantage miles to fly in an Etihad A380 First
Class Apartment
from Abu Dhabi to Sydney starting in June 2015.
Unfortunately those days are over, and it's now quite literally impossible to get Swiss first or business
class award space on any route
from North America to Europe except their Montreal route.
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.
If I were to book a 1st
class CP flight
from HKG to JFK with aadvantage miles as soon as that
award space is released on ba.com, and if I then wanted to go
from JFK to AUS on the same
award ticket, then that
award space for AA wouldn't yet be available, correct?
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.
The
award space in business
class on Skyteam members Saudia (
from Washington DC or New York, through Riyadh and Jeddah) and Aeroflot (a much better airline than you think, and with great availability out of New York and DC through Moscow) is better than on almost any airline.
Alitalia Business
Class award space is wide open in Spring 2016
from New York and Boston to Rome for 62,500 Delta miles each way.
The following calendars show
award space from New York to Rome for three passengers in Business
Class on nonstop flights.
Award space is excellent in 2016 in a very good Business
Class product
from New York and Boston to Rome and the rest of Italy and Europe.
From New York to Abu Dhabi, there is
award space in First
Class for the next week, denoted by «Miles 111000.»
The
award space in Business
Class from London to Abu Dhabi appears to open up one week before departure because none is available after March 16.
I took a look at
award space today through a week
from now in both directions on Cathay Pacific's five American routes with First
Class.
In First
Class, the
award space from London to Abu Dhabi is also wide open for the next week with
award space every day, denoted by «Miles 54949.»
From Abu Dhabi to Washington, we see the same pattern, excellent First
Class award space — denoted by dates that say «Miles 114640» below — within one week of departure.
The American Airlines flights to Hong Kong have virtually no
award space on them on that moment, but I would rather fly Cathay Pacific's premium cabins than American Airlines» anyways as they are much superior products — read my trip report when I flew Cathay Pacific First
Class from New York to Hong Kong.
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