First off, whenever you see Kenya Airways
award space available on the Flying Blue award search page, chances are you can not book it.
It's also great to see so much
award space available for anyone wanting to try the aircraft or the Thai Business Class product out.
And although Delta, United, and American all offer service to Buenos Aires from their largest hubs, they don't make a lot
of award space available at the lowest mileage levels.
Examining the calendar, there is
award space available in economy class on every day, business class on most days, and first class on just one day.
Since you do need to book nearly a year ahead for a FC award, there is virtually no FC
TATL award space available to book before Feb 1st.
But United service, food, and seat quality, together with a huge array of
premium award space available with truly flat bed seats makes UA a very good choice to get anywhere on miles.
They told me they would not / could not honor the SWISS First booking, but they could reaccommodate me on another carrier or in another class of service if we could find partner
level award space available.
Air France / KLM Flying Blue did well and I give them credit for making generous amounts
of award space available to their own members and for clever promotions that include half - off awards between select cities.
* You can also use Delta's website to search for availability but keep in mind that in order to book a Delta flight with either of the Ultimate Rewards Skyteam partners, there must be
award space available at the saver level on Delta.
Since US to Central America and US to Caribbean cost the same amount of miles, I would think that you would have been able to go anywhere in those 2 regions that there was
award space available.
You can then manage your booking online and upgrade using a combination of cash and Avios if there's
award space available.
If booking awards through Korean Air is too complicated or impossible, and if the other big alliances don't have
award space available, then Flying Blue may be the most sensible way to use your Ultimate Rewards points for your next award ticket.
He also wants to always get at least 2 cents of value out of each point, so he oftentimes ends up paying for plane tickets instead of doing award redemptions if there's only high - level
award space available.
That month gap won't accurately reflect
the award space available on all partners.
I had seen
this award space available a day or so before you posted and then bam, the day after, they were all gone.
Other than being able to redeem them for any night of the week, at any hotel that has
award space available, you can also opt for a Points & Money award to stretch your point balance further.
At this point, there is
no award space available for First.
I found award space on several of the other routes also, but nothing approached the New York to London space, which even exceeded
the award space available between Los Angeles and London.