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For example, even though I used American Airlines miles to book Cathay Pacific first class flights, I didn't search for award availability on the AA website.

So a trick you can do is to search for award availability on your route on a day you know BA doesn't have any availability, and the site will ask you if you want to search BA's partners as well.

Perhaps Singapore's many transfer partners and excellent award availability on its own metal are winning factors in its favor.

Then make a separate reservation with miles for the 3rd ticket, provided there is award availability on the flight.

To book ABU to JFK on the A380, I checked award availability on EY»S website on a virtually daily basis for several months — waiting for flights in latter part of Jan. to open up.

Overall trends: As I mention above, you'll be hard - pressed to find business class award availability on Air France, though I was able to find a few seats here and there.

Dear Tracey, United frequent flier miles can be a valuable commodity, because it is easy to search for award availability on United's website and because United tends to have more award seats available than its competitors.

However close - in availability can get very expensive and saver award availability on routes like JFK - Tel Aviv is non-existent.

You can search for Star Alliance award availability on sites like United.com and Aeroplan.com.

You can search for Star Alliance award availability on sites like United.com, Aeroplan.com, and ANA.co.jp.

I've highlighted the great award availability on Korean, now seearchable on the Delta website, and the great availability on China Southern from Los Angeles to Guangzhou, China and beyond (albeit last time I checked, with fuel surcharges, and no searchable at Delta.com).

Nonetheless, the convenience of advance award availability on such stellar partners pushes my valuation slightly above the higher end of the range of the above examples: my valuation is 2 cents per American AAdvantage mile.

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

- Aeroplan offers expanded award availability on Air Canada flights.

If I manage to find award availability on Alaska Airlines for each of those segments, my one - way trip I would book on Alaska Airlines would look like this: New York to Seattle (stopover for a few months), Seattle to San Francisco.

And sure enough, this morning while searching Delta.com, I came up with lots of award availability on Virgin Atlantic flights in economy from JFK to London Heathrow for the same amount of 60,000 miles and $ 185 in taxes and fees.

I can't emphasize enough how rare this amount of business class award availability on American is.

Here's my dilemma: I can be poised to check ANA for award availability on United or another Star Alliance partner 356 days in advance of the outbound leg — but if I want to use ANA miles to book a round trip award, don't I have to wait to book until the requisite number of days before the return leg, since ANA doesn't allow one ways?

Award availability on Alaska matches what you'll see on Alaska's own website (for redemptions at the low / saver level).

• United has good award availability on its flights.

You can still book award flights on these partners by searching for award availability on other Oneworld airlines» websites; via ExpertFlyer; or by calling AA and seeing what's available.

Historically business class award availability on Fiji Airways isn't especially good, though I've seen a good amount of space lately, especially if booking in advance.

Singapore also offers discounts and better award availability on awards when you use Krisflyer miles instead of miles from other programs.

However, this region has its own issue when searching award availability: Oneworld partners Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines don't show up when searching award availability on AA's website.

Unfortunately, you can't find Korean Air first - class award availability on Delta.com since you can only redeem Delta miles for economy and business - class awards on partners, and Alaska does not let you redeem its miles for first - class awards on Korean.

Aeroplan's website is actually quite good about showing award availability on partner airlines and for booking simple award flights.

I'm currently trying to find Air New Zealand award availability on the United site too for January 2017 and can't find a thing!

@ Dan — There's no doubt that there's a trend whereby American is releasing a LOT less award availability on their own metal.

Last week, we shared the great news that United Airlines was once again displaying Singapore award availability on its website, making it much easier to search for — and book — MileagePlus awards.

Remember to check for JAL's award availability on British Airways» site before your next trip to Asia.

And there's really one primary use of their miles — that's that Singapore offers much much much better award availability on their own flights for their own members.

Often, there is better award availability on these types of direct flights making this a good route to watch when it comes to redeeming miles.

For years, fliers have complained about stingy award availability on Delta flights at the lowest redemption levels.

After skimming this article, I started looking for BCN - > SEA on Condor (Condor's own web site shows availability), but can only turn up award availability on BA via Alaska's site (which leads me to believe that this * should * be possible...), which with their ridiculously high fuel surcharges isn't optimal.

Delta has good to excellent award availability on Virgin Atlantic (except Seattle), so this is your chance to sample Virgin Atlantic product without paying insanely ridiculous fuel surcharges for the privilege.

If you can't find award availability on the exact dates you want, American has confirmed that its members will be able to change a reservation to new dates after the devaluation.

In another update on award space, American is featuring award availability on their newly announced European routes.

Korean Air SkyPass and Flying Blue are both good options for international travel, but I wasn't able to find the necessary award availability on these carriers and their SkyTeam Partners.

Since you'll never find award availability on that route, the best deal is for flights between Australia and New Zealand.

You will need to use American to look for nonstop award availability on Alaska or American Airlines (ignore any results on Hawaiian Airlines because you can not book those with Avios).

Of course, there are other routes served by the A380, but many readers of this blog are based in North America, and award availability on these particular flights is more difficult to find.

This flight required a bit of a judgement call and a lot of luck because there was absolutely no award availability on the one flight that I could trust to get me into Helsinki on time to catch the A350 (for the trip back).

The Virgin Atlantic Dreamliner has fewer Premium Economy and Upper Class seats than both the A330 and A340 aircraft so I suspect this won't do much for award availability on this route.

If you have a subscription to ExpertFlyer you can still search for award availability on there (that's a big bonus)......

While I wouldn't call award availability on Thai's first international A350 route «wide open» it's definitely reasonably easy to find Business Class award seats.

Those aren't terrible prices to pay for premium cabins on the likes of JAL or Cathay Pacific but, once again there's no guarantee you'll find award availability on dates where cash fares are higher than that cost.

Unlike on American Airlines, if British Airways or Iberia are showing award availability on their respective websites for the cabin you wish to upgrade into then upgrades are available too.

American Airlines has been getting tighter and tighter with award availability on it's own aircraft flying across the Atlantic.

American Airlines charges 57,500 miles in each direction for a Business Class award on airberlin (taxes and fees come to under $ 100) and, unlike not too long ago, you can now search for airberlin award availability on AA.com.

Korean Air has very popular First and Business Class products and finding award availability on Korean isn't nearly as challenging as it can be on its transpacific competitors.