A last minute redemption (one week out) worked out for me in June: an optional trip I'd been casually tracking for weeks became possible, in Business Class, because
saver awards opened up — on United.
And yes, I flew using two award tickets for only 60,000 miles each just three weeks before departure when American Airlines
Saver Awards opened up.
Saver awards for these flights are starting at 80,000 Delta SkyMiles one way and we just saw a lot of
Saver awards open up but then dry up virtually overnight.
Not exact matches
Additionally, even if your goal happens to be short flights on American Airlines within the U.S., AA has sharply reduced their
saver award space (which is the space
open to partners such as British Airways) so Avios are less useful for those
awards.
On a roundtrip
saver award, you can add one stopover and one
open jaw.
I kept monitoring it to see how it trended as the dates got closer and although economy
award space still hasn't
opened up I suddenly saw wide
open availability to Europe at
saver levels the entire months of July and August: All summer!
American has
opened a bunch of first and business - class
saver awards to Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Saver award availability for this route at 37,500 looks tough to come by but you can probably find
open Standard
awards for 70,000 miles one - way.
One thing to remember: Singapore Airlines allows one stopover and one
open jaw on round trip
saver awards to everywhere except Europe and the U.S.
Similar to the option between Houston and Moscow, this is another
award redemption that has become a great value since Singapore started
opening up
saver award space in their new first class.
Since Singapore Airlines adjusted their
award chart a week ago, they have started to
open up
saver award space for travel in their new first class.
American miles can book all the exact same
award space that Alaska
opens up to its own members at the
Saver level.
Do you know if they typically
open saver award seats, or Lufthansa seats, closer to departure date?
I even saw a flight that was leaving the following day with 25
open seats in J and still nothing for
Saver awards.
If you are ready to fly on a whim airlines often
open up
saver awards as it gets closer to the flight.
Award space is of course subject to the vagaries of revenue management (protip: anyone who claims that all you have to do is say «revenue management» to get award seats to open up is probably a few fries short of a happy meal), and it does seem like Suites saver awards on SQ221 from SIN - SYD have been blo
Award space is of course subject to the vagaries of revenue management (protip: anyone who claims that all you have to do is say «revenue management» to get
award seats to open up is probably a few fries short of a happy meal), and it does seem like Suites saver awards on SQ221 from SIN - SYD have been blo
award seats to
open up is probably a few fries short of a happy meal), and it does seem like Suites
saver awards on SQ221 from SIN - SYD have been blocked.
If you are ready to fly on a whim airlines often
open up
saver awards the day of or the day before a flight.
Additionally, even if your goal happens to be short flights on American Airlines within the U.S., AA has sharply reduced their
saver award space (which is the space
open to partners such as British Airways) so Avios are less useful for those
awards.
I've never transferred to Singapore but now that they've
opened up their Suite Class to
Saver Awards, this is a very tempting option to Asia.