You can
book first class award tickets on Japan Airlines through their own Mileage Bank program, Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, or one of their Oneworld partners.
Another solid option to
book first class award tickets on Lufthansa is Air Canada's Aeroplan program.
Perhaps the best way to
book a first class award ticket to Tokyo is by using Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles to fly with All Nippon Airways (ANA).
While this isn't the best way to earn Alaska miles because of the cost, it can help you get those last few miles needed for to
book a first class award ticket with Cathay Pacific, one of Alaska's best international partners.
Perhaps the best way to
book a first class award ticket to Tokyo is by using Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles to fly with All Nippon Airways (ANA).
I booked myself a First Class award ticket from Cairo, Egypt to Washington DC with 15 hours on the brand new Etihad 787 - 9 Dreamliner for 90,000 American Airlines miles and a few dollars in taxes.
Not exact matches
On an American Airlines flight, business
class and
first class award bookings will include about $ 280 in taxes and fees for a round - trip
ticket.
If you prefer, you can
book a business
class award ticket... but the taxes and fees for each person will be the same as those on a
first class award.
This is especially frustrating for business
class and
first class award tickets, and even worse if you
book on an airline that hits you with steep carrier - imposed surcharges (such as British Airways).
Generally, the only time it makes sense to
book a British Airways
first class award is by using the British Airways Travel Together
Ticket so you can get 2
first class seats for the miles of on.
Expect to pay ~ $ 400 in fuel surcharges and taxes per long - haul segment on
award bookings, but that's still cheaper than paying for a business or
first class ticket.
Unlike
booking Korean Air
first class, you aren't required to use Korean SkyPass miles to
book business
class award tickets.
Thanks to four credit card applications, we were able to
book two
first -
class round - trip
award tickets on Cathay Pacific to Bali, via Hong Kong, for this past summer.
While we often talk about
booking United business
class and
first class, this extra economy
award space can be extremely useful when you need to
book a flight but
ticket prices are sky high.
If you
book an international business or
first class award ticket, the value of your miles could be significantly higher.
You probably can't
book a business or
first class award ticket, since those are significantly more expensive in cash terms than when using miles.
If you are buying discounted fares and think this is your easy path to business or
first class, it's possible that
booking an
award ticket would be just as easy and a better value.
So, for example, if you're interested in
booking two
first -
class award tickets from the continental United States to Hawaii, you'll need 160,000 HawaiianMiles.
Since Qatar's new product is going to be as nice as a
first -
class product, you may want to
book this product and save an incredible 90,000 miles for a round trip
ticket versus a
first -
class award.
Though I'm primarily discussing economy redemptions here, I also wanted to mention that
booking through Virgin Atlantic, you can get
first -
class award tickets for domestic travel in the U.S. for an absolute steal: just 45,000 miles.
While we all enjoy
booking an extravagant
first class award to Asia and getting a massive amount of value out of our miles, the truth is
award tickets simply aren't available every time we want to
book and some travel needs like domestic economy
tickets don't offer such great value.
Generally, the only time it makes sense to
book a British Airways
first class award is by using the British Airways Travel Together
Ticket so you can get 2
first class seats for the miles of on.
On an American Airlines flight, business
class and
first class award bookings will include about $ 280 in taxes and fees for a round - trip
ticket.
Unlike
booking Korean Air
first class, you aren't required to use Korean SkyPass miles to
book business
class award tickets.
If you prefer, you can
book a business
class award ticket... but the taxes and fees for each person will be the same as those on a
first class award.
Award upgrades to
First Class are only possible for Elite members with a
ticket in
booking classes J, C or D.
Specifically, you'll usually get the most value from your miles when you
book either last - minute
tickets or
awards in business or
first class flights.
For only 50,000 Asiana miles, you can
book a one - way
first class award ticket to or from Europe!
Sometimes you can purchase the miles needed to
book an
award business /
first class seat for the same price you would have paid for an economy revenue
ticket.
For
award tickets, you can receive a 50 % discount on
first class bookings and a 30 % discount on business
class or economy
class bookings.
A round - trip
ticket in
first class normally costs $ 14,833 but can be
booked as an
award for 140,000 miles.
It costs 70,00 Qmiles in Economy, 140,000 Qmiles in Business and 210,000 Qmiles in
First class to
book award ticket with Qatar Airways Privilege Club miles from Los Angeles to Doha.
Suppose I
book a round trip
award in business, and I change the return segment to lufthansa
first, then do I have to pay the
first class points value just for the return segment or do i have to pay itfor the entire round trip
ticket?
You'll notice that I have specifically excluded Lufthansa
First Class, which is available at most 15 days in advance, and Swiss
First Class, which has pretty much disappeared for
award bookings, even for solo
tickets.
As we did our last time, we'll likely split up on the trip over and back, such that either my husband or I will get a third
award ticket, perhaps one way in business using 40,000 United miles from the over 100,000 United miles I've earned from the Ink Bold (see How to Book a Business Class Award to Hawaii) and the other a combination of AA in coach from Hawaii to the West Coast for 12,500 Avios from the British Airways Visa — 100,000 points offer plus United Business First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed for EWR -
award ticket, perhaps one way in business using 40,000 United miles from the over 100,000 United miles I've earned from the Ink Bold (see How to
Book a Business
Class Award to Hawaii) and the other a combination of AA in coach from Hawaii to the West Coast for 12,500 Avios from the British Airways Visa — 100,000 points offer plus United Business First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed for EWR -
Award to Hawaii) and the other a combination of AA in coach from Hawaii to the West Coast for 12,500 Avios from the British Airways Visa — 100,000 points offer plus United Business
First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed for EWR - LAX.
Even though there is 4 months to
book those
award tickets if you want to fly CX in
first class or even business it is almost impossible to find at this point.
- Miles & More is the mileage program of Lufthansa as well as Austrian and SWISS, and members get more access to premium
award tickets - All three airlines are part of Star Alliance, so you can use these miles on any of the 27 partner airlines including US Airways and United (and Miles & More
awards can be
booked one - way, which US Airways
awards can not)- You can
book a roundtrip domestic business
class award on United and US Airways for 35,000 miles, or a
first class ticket for 50,000 miles.
Normally I write more about Singapore Suites than Singapore
First Class, both since most of my
Award Booking Clients aspire to fly Singapore Suites on the A380 and because as an award ticket, Singapore Suites is the same cost in KrisFlyer miles as Singapore First C
Award Booking Clients aspire to fly Singapore Suites on the A380 and because as an
award ticket, Singapore Suites is the same cost in KrisFlyer miles as Singapore First C
award ticket, Singapore Suites is the same cost in KrisFlyer miles as Singapore
First Class.
I
booked 2
First Class tickets from North America to Asia, on Cathay Pacific, which are 150,000 each on the current BA single partner
award chart.
In particular,
booking through Miles & More is one of the easiest ways to get an
award ticket in Lufthansa's fabulous
first class cabin.
My Singapore
First Class award ticket was something I'd been looking forward to for a few months, having
booked it back in July that weekend that KrisFlyer
award inventory was available on United.com.
If you'd like to
book an
award ticket in Lufthansa
first class yourself, I'd suggest reading the following posts for some great tips and strategies: