Sentences with phrase «swiss first class award»

And while I don't mind planning last minute, for 99 % of people booking a Lufthansa or Swiss first class award within a week of departure just isn't practical.

I really, really wanted to book the SWISS First Class award (or at least try to) and I came very close to doing just that a couple of times... but I think common sense prevailed and I got lucky because of that.

Had I gone ahead and booked the SWISS First Class award I would have ended up with 110,000 miles stuck in an Aeroplan account that may or may not have been any use when it comes to booking flights for the 2019 trip.

The SWISS First Class award availability disappeared pretty quickly and, a few days later, those who had actually booked the awards suddenly noticed that their reservations were being cancelled.

SWISS first class awards are not bookable using KrisFlyer Miles and neither are premium economy seats on Star Alliance partner airlines.

Award flight tip *: Miles & More members have better access to Lufthansa and SWISS first class awards.

Under normal conditions SWISS First Class awards are only bookable by elite members of the Miles & More program but, for reasons I'm not entirely clear about, these awards briefly became available to all and sundry a couple of weeks ago.

Not exact matches

If you've still got an Aeroplan / SWISS First award ticket (s) hanging around in an ambiguous state it might be worth holding on to it until you can change it to a Lufthansa First or Business Class ticket.

They told me they would not / could not honor the SWISS First booking, but they could reaccommodate me on another carrier or in another class of service if we could find partner level award space available.

Aeroplan was showing First Class award availability on SWISS but United was not (neither was LifeMiles but that didn't surprise me).

Recently, the blogosphere exploded with the news that SWISS appeared to release First Class award space to Star Alliance partners.

Booked SWISS First One day back in November 2017 SWISS released partner award space in their First Class cabin.

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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.

While many frequent flyers use Lufthansa miles to get into their (and Swiss) first class cabins without waiting until the last minute, as Lufthansa doesn't release first class awards to partners until very close to departure, first class redemptions with Miles & More can in many cases be the worst value awards because of fees.

It's worth noting that it's tougher than ever before to find first class Star Alliance award space on Lufthansa and Swiss (see How to Deal with No More Lufthansa Advance First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeksfirst class Star Alliance award space on Lufthansa and Swiss (see How to Deal with No More Lufthansa Advance First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeksclass Star Alliance award space on Lufthansa and Swiss (see How to Deal with No More Lufthansa Advance First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeksFirst Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeksClass Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeks out.

You'll notice that I have specifically excluded Lufthansa First Class, which is available at most 15 days in advance, and Swiss First Class, which has pretty much disappeared for award bookings, even for solo tickets.

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.

- Miles & More offers expanded award availability on Lufthansa and Swiss business and first class.

- Miles & More is the mileage program of Lufthansa as well as Austrian and SWISS, and members get more access to premium award tickets - All three airlines are part of Star Alliance, so you can use these miles on any of the 27 partner airlines including US Airways and United (and Miles & More awards can be booked one - way, which US Airways awards can not)- You can book a roundtrip domestic business class award on United and US Airways for 35,000 miles, or a first class ticket for 50,000 miles.