On the return, there was only one first
award seat available so I locked that in and my partner is in business.
Not exact matches
It will be clearly listed
so you can make sure an
award seat is actually
available.
Since the cancellation happened
so close to my departure, no
award seats were
available and
so I was stuck on United.
So the results of a recent study by consulting firm IdeaWorks, which ranks airlines by
award availability should come as no surprise — it shows that Delta ranked last (23rd out of 23) with the fewest low - level
award seats available based on the nearly 7,000 queries it conducted.
One thing to keep in mind is that ANA won't always show you the partners
available for booking,
so you sometimes you'll need to search United and Aeroplan for flights to Bangkok and then call up ANA to locate the partner
award seats.
It will be clearly listed
so you can make sure an
award seat is actually
available.
The bigger aircraft will have more DeltaOne
seats available (possibly good for
award travel) and the exit rows are in completely different places on both aircraft
so check your
seat assignments if you already have a flight booked.
It's important to remember that
award seats won't always be
available so don't get too frustrated when your desired flight doesn't have
award space.
But the annoying thing is that when I go to book an
award ticket, the flight that I want to take does not have any
award seats available,
so I can't use the miles.
Refundable
awards truly are «last
seat available»
so you can always book them but will pay the most.
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.
Most people will want to pick a nonstop flight and only the Asiana flight has an
award seat available in Business Class,
so I'm going to pick that one (it's 60,000 miles for the one - way plus $ 77.50 in taxes).
The changes were supposed to happen in March,
so I decided to load up united.com (which is hugely improved since they use the robust continental.com
award engine) and checked my ideal date to leave for Singapore and lo and behold, there were
seats available.
So since Alaska lets you redeem for JAL premium economy, you shouldn't have any trouble finding those
seats when first & business class
awards aren't
available.
so the availability on Expert Flyer doesn't mean that there is
award seat available too....
There's still a number of days with 2, 4 or more first class
award seats available,
so book them while you can!
So, when you see an AAnytime
award, AA is basically saying «we have no
award seats available but we will still give it to you if you're willing to pay a ridiculous amount of miles».
So you're not choosing from
award seating on Delta, you're just finding the best deal
available on any airline that can take you where you want to go.