Not exact matches
The next time you search for business class
award space to Seoul, South Korea on Korean Air's site, you'll notice they
even let you know how many
seats are
available to be booked with Korean SkyPass miles.
These points are
even more valuable when you consider that all Southwest
seats are
available for
award bookings regardless of date or flight.
Since business travel plummets during holiday weeks, airlines often make first - class
awards available at the saver
award level
even when economy
seats are selling like hotcakes.
Though Delta isn't known for offering a generous amount of
award space to its partners, I was able to find four first - class
award seats available in August from Denver to Maui via Los Angeles and Seattle using the online
award search engine for Alaska Airlines, which you don't
even need an account to use.
Even when it looks like
award seats are
available on your preferred flights, be sure to have a few backup flights in mind.
Flying Blue was
even more restrictive only making its
award seats available ten months before travel.
Its made a name for itself, though, by offering key perks that travelers crave: extremely valuable partners, instant transfers, and an ability to use your points on any flight at any time
even when
award seats aren't
available.
There may be normal revenue
seats (those which you pay real money for)
available on a flight,
even though there may not be any
award seats available on a specific flight.
If I can get a first class
award on United,
even without first class
seats for US to Australia (perhaps using a three - cabin first class flight domestically, or because first class was
available in one direction) then I can waitlist for the segments I don't have in first.
Award space never showed up,
even with several
seats available for sale (in low fare buckets, no less).
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.
Not all airlines do this (some will just say no
award tickets
available) but American Airlines actually still lets you book a ticket on their own flights (it can not be a partner flight)
even if no
award seats are
available.