AA is an option too, but it may be harder to find business
award class availability.
Not exact matches
While
award availability in economy
class has generally improved on American Airlines and its partners over the last few years, you will have more options when you can choose any airline to fly to your destination.
With its generous first
class award availability, they really shine when it comes to access for families.
• Korean Air miles can be used on Delta and offer more
availability for Upper
Class award tickets to Asia than most other programs.
So Miles & More will charge you fewer miles for business and first
class awards than if you used United miles AND you get more
availability.
Here we had a stroke of luck, depending on how you look at it: while the direct service flight from Los Angeles did not show
availability for a Business
Class or First Class Saver Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
Class or First
Class Saver Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
Class Saver
Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
Award on most dates, a mixed
class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
award connecting through San Francisco was available.
After confirming Saver
class availability for each flight segment by searching them as one - way flights, I now stitched them all together in United's multi-destination
award search tool, making certain to choose the specific flight numbers I'd confirmed
availability on during my one - way searches.
Let's be clear — finding Qantas first
class award availability will not be easy.
That means unlike many airline programs that limit the
availability of
award redemptions, Amtrak
awards are always allowed so long as they follow a valid, published route and paid fare
availability for the requested
class of travel remains.
When searching, it's best to select Business or First
Class, even if you're primarily focused on Economy
availability, as BA's
award engine.
First
class award availability on Qantas is notoriously difficult to find.
If there is no
award availability in economy, then redeeming your miles for a business
class ticket still makes economic sense.
I originally started collecting them thinking I'd suck up the fuel surcharges flying Boston to London on Virgin Atlantic Upper
Class with good
award availability.
It looks to me like Lufthansa has just recently released quite a bit of partner
award availability for travel from the US to Europe this summer in Business
Class.
First
class awards can only be booked as flex
awards, which cost substantially more than classic
awards, but with no change fees and much greater
availability than classic
awards.
A lot of people prefer the in - air product of Jet Blue over Southwest for longer flights since it has tv's, free wifi, more leg room, business / first
class «Mint» cabins, allows you to pick your seat, etc. but both airlines constantly rate among the best for
award availability, making them both solid choices for getting around the country, in terms of finding
award seats.
The biggest problem that almost everybody will tell you is that SAAver
award availability in business
class to Europe usually is not good at all.
The very condensed version is that Brussels Airlines has opened a ton of business
class award availability through next year and you can book those using 36,620 Etihad miles.
Delta has excellent
award availability that often surpasses both American and United, even in business
class for more than one passenger.
AAdvantage offers the best value for flights to Maui and Kauai in all
classes, and it usually has the best
award seat
availability among the three.
A huge caveat, however, is
award availability, which is much harder to find in premium
classes than an economy seat.
They don't let you book First
Class awards with partners at all, they rarely have low - level
award availability (and I think this might get worse after the recent devaluation), you can only redeem round trip flights (one - ways are coming in 2015 though), and in general their miles are much harder to use than those of other programs.
The very condensed version is that Brussels Airlines has opened a ton of business
class award availability through next year and you can book...
Lufthansa generally only releases
award seats to partners within a week or so of departure, so you can book business
class and change to first -
class if
availability opens up.
The Star Alliance (which United is a part of) has great economy and business
class award availability to Europe.
and BA always has lots of Business
Class award availability during the holidays.
There appears to be plenty of Business
Class award availability from London to the US....
Availability in the other direction (Auckland to Doha) is pretty good do and, in this case, there are actually 4 Business
Class awards available on the very first Qatar Airways non-stop flight between Auckland and Doha:
BA.com showed Business
Class award availability on most Cathay Pacific flights between Tokyo and Hong Kong on my chosen date but, rather than just book the flight with the best timings, there was one last thing to take into consideration.
The week I'm prepared to travel (10 — 16 December 2016) there is no First
Class award availability between London and Abu Dhabi («Guest First» has to show as available if you are to book Etihad First
Class with AAdvantage Miles):
Aeroplan was showing First
Class award availability on SWISS but United was not (neither was LifeMiles but that didn't surprise me).
Take a look a these screenshots from American Airlines — all show Business
Class award availability on non-stop flights between various US cities and London Heathrow:
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.
Korean has some of the best first -
class award availability of any airline and charges a very reasonable number of miles during its off - peak dates.
If you're looking for summer
award availability to Europe in business
class you may want to check out this United route.
Today I wanted to cover how the best way to get to Asia right now is with outstanding Asiana business
class award availability.
Here's November Business
Class award availability....
When I flew to Tokyo in January I had to position from London to Frankfurt to catch a JAL Business
Class award flight on the 787 Dreamliner and when I had wanted to try out Cathay Pacific First
Class last year I had to position from London to Zurich to catch that
award flight — London isn't exactly awash with
award availability.
British Airways guarantees that it will release at least 2 Business
Class seats on every flight so, as this route has just be loaded in the past few hours,
award availability should be plentiful right now....
In order to upgrade using Avios there simply has to be Business
Class award availability on the flight in question....
Chicago actually has even better
availability than Los Angeles because Business
Class awards are also available in January.
Thanks to tons of last - minute
award availability, United miles are a great bet for spur - of - the - moment domestic trips in economy
class.
Business
class flights to Australia are rarely ever seen at great prices and
award availability has never been easy to find.
As I often suggest travelers take «positioning flights» around Europe (and the US) to make the most of any great Business
Class fares that come around or to make the most of
award availability that appears somewhere that isn't your home airport, I thought I'd share my experience of doing just that at Zurich airport.
There were two more things to consider at this point — Business
Class award availability on the return flights and the aircraft that British Airways was offering.
The aircraft also offers a Premium Economy cabin which, considering how little seat - width the seats in Economy
Class offer, may be a good compromise if Business
Class is expensive or if Business
Class award availability is non-existent.
American Airlines appears to be more interested in discounting its Business
Class cabins (often to a great extent) than it is in opening up
award availability on a number of its routes....
The 777 - 300 offers 52 Business
Class seats while the Dreamliner has just 28 so, not only is the route losing First
Class, it will also see a significant drop in Business
Class capacity from 15 December — that's not good for prices or for
award availability.
The program generally has good
award availability, including premium
classes on transpacific routes between the U.S. and Asia, which are notoriously hard to get with miles.
If you search for economy
class by default on a carrier that has four cabins, you will not see first
class award availability.