This will allow it to have more
award seat availability for its own members.
Since United is the only US - based carrier in Star Alliance, you will have the best chance to find
award seat availability for your area with this airline.
Not exact matches
Redeem $ 1 in TravelBank cash
for $ 1 toward a United ticket — no fussing with
award seat availability or blackout dates.
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for purchase by using miles.
Is there another way to check
award seats availability on One World partner airlines
for redemption through AA?
Often, people sign up
for a credit card and its accompanying airline rewards program, but when they go to redeem the miles, they become disappointed in the
availability of
award seats.
Air Canada releases most
award seats the day they open, so it can be easy to get
availability on tricky flights, especially
for groups
Not just
for this week, not just
for next month... but many flights have multiple
seats of
award availability off and on throughout the entire next year.
You'd never be want to pay
for those
seats using Flexperks or Arrival points as you'd have to spend ungodly amounts to cover the cash cost of the tickets) To me, the flexibility to book
seats I want, when I want, vastly outweighs maximizing the value I could theoretically obtain IF I could find
availability using «optimal»
award programs.
Speaking of
award availability I seem to be seeing 5
seats available in Economy and 2 in Business
for most flights.
Scott McCartney, Travel Editor
for The Wall Street Journal, discusses airline loyalty programs, the great variation in
award availability, and which airlines are better or worse at making
award seats available to passengers.
Finding
seats can be extremely difficult of course, but we do the legwork
for you on a search
for award availability.
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.
Virgin's Elevate program is based on a «points per dollar» system, so the number of points needed to redeem
for award travel vary based on price and
seat availability.
United has made cuts there, as well, making it harder
for general members to access last -
seat availability, prevent their miles from expiring, and change their
award bookings with minimal fees.
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.
Limit the number of
seats available
for award travel or otherwise restrict the continued
availability of travel
awards or special offers
Because the miles are being used to purchase a cash ticket you don't have to wait
for award availability to open up — as long a there's
seat for sale on the aircraft customers can use miles to pay (or part pay)
for that
seat.
Generally speaking, revenue - based
award redemption programs like Southwest, JetBlue, and VirginAmerica have good
availability but this is only because the number of points it costs
for an
award seat are a function of how much the
seat costs.
The companion voucher allows the user to redeem two
award seats for the same number of Avios as a single
award seat would cost (providing there's
availability).
Seat availability for awards varies according to destination and time of year.
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.
It's important to remember that not all
award seats that are shown on the Etihad Guest website are available to be booked using AAdvantage Miles — Etihad needs to have «Guest Business»
awards available
for there to be
availability for AAdvantage miles redemptions.
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AWARD DATA…ExpertFlyer.com, a popular tool used to research flight
availability and search
for award seat space, has lost the ability to access award space data to Star Alliance carr
award seat space, has lost the ability to access
award space data to Star Alliance carr
award space data to Star Alliance carriers.
Award seat availability usually ranges from good to excellent, even
for purchasing two or more tickets in the same cabin.
As stated,
award availability for (saver) business class to New Zealand on United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with business class
seats between the US and Australia / New Zealand.
Since Amtrak offers last -
seat award availability, any
seats or sleeper accommodations which are available on amtrak.com are available
for award redemption, subject to the blackout dates below.
Etihad
award space is available on its own website; look
for «Guest
Seat»
availability to find
award space made available to partners.
Secondly, this sees a significant decrease in the number of Business Class
seats available on the route and that's not going to be good
for upgrades or the already pathetic
award availability.
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.
United Airlines may not have many cabins that one would call aspirational (The latest Polaris
seats on the 777 - 300ER are nice but there's hardly any of them in service) but it offers far better
award availability than American Airlines and requires considerably fewer miles
for premium cabin
awards than Delta — that makes it a valuable transfer option to have.
On top of this the A380 offers more Business Class
seating than the 777 (good
for award availability) and the Economy Class product is more comfortable - its a win all round.
Availability on these routes is not as generous, but there are still enough
award seats, often
for two people.
Consumer Reports found Southwest had the greatest
availability of
seats for award travel.
The top five spots
for overall
award seat availability went to: airberlin and Southwest with 100 percent; Virgin Australia with 96.4 percent; Air Canada with 90.7 percent; Singapore with 90 percent; and JetBlue and Lufthansa tied
for fifth place with 87.1 percent.
Once you confirm that there is «Guest
Seat»
availability for a specific
award, you can call AAdvantage at 800-882-8880 and book the ticket.
But
for first class, or if you want to buy a more expensive
award with last
seat availability, the prices are pretty much the same.
While a route serviced by an A350 should be an aircraft where premium
award seats can be made available, it's likely that
availability for business class
seats will be scarce so I wouldn't rely on booking these
seats with partners like United.
The only problem is that finding reward
seat availability — especially
for saver
awards — can be an issue.
Delta,
for example, will sometimes set the
availability of
awards seats to zero on certain dates, even when there is no official blackout, which amounts to the same thing.
With that much lift between the two cities, travelers should have a better chance
for more
award seats this summer (especially on Air France, which seems to offer more
award availability than Delta on this route).
The problem Cathay Pacific is experiencing is high demand
for its first class
award seats from those with AAdvantage miles, with these
seats often booked soon after the
award calendar opens, leaving no
award availability for its own Asia Miles frequent flyer members who may seek to book just a few months before the date of departure.
With Premier statuses, you'll qualify
for mileage bonuses,
seat upgrades, priority check - in, complimentary checked baggage, better
award -
seat availability, discounted and waived fees, and other benefits.
While United tends to make the most
seats available
for the lowest priced
awards, American AAdvantage members have the option of using Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines flights which often have generous
availability.
The low - fare airline is a great alternative
for fliers on a budget, as Frontier offers a chance to purchase tickets through its
awards program (tickets available include economy, choice and last
seat availability).
Sometimes, when you try to change one direction of a round trip, you have to release your
seat on the direction you aren't changing, which incurs risk that said
seat /
award availability may in fact either get scooped up or not go back into inventory in time
for you to scoop it back up.
This week we already learned that the combined United - Continental frequent flyer program will have expiring miles and that last
seat availability for standard (additional miles)
awards would be restricted to elites and credit card holders, plus that cardholders who are elites would be eligible
for complimentary upgrades on domestic coach
awards.
With elite statuses, you might qualify
for earning more
award miles when you fly,
seat upgrades, priority check - in, complimentary checked baggage, better
award -
seat availability, discounted and waived fees, and other benefits.
Their
availability for award seats is also unlimited.
French Polynesia because they partner with both airlines flying from the mainland US to Tahiti (Air Tahiti Nui and Air France) and Australia because they partner with Virgin Australia, Virgin Australia has the best
award availability to Australia especially on the Los Angeles — Brisbane route, because those
seats are even available at Delta.com now, and because they've stopped charging fuel surcharges
for those flights as well.