Not exact matches
BA.com showed
Business Class award availability on most Cathay Pacific flights between Tokyo and Hong Kong on my chosen date but, rather than just book the flight
with the best timings, there was one last thing to take into consideration.
Today I wanted to cover how the best way to get to Asia right now is
with outstanding Asiana
business class award availability.
When I flew to Tokyo in January I had to position from London to Frankfurt to catch a JAL
Business Class award flight on the 787 Dreamliner and when I had wanted to try out Cathay Pacific First
Class last year I had to position from London to Zurich to catch that
award flight — London isn't exactly awash
with award availability.
Deltas Saver
award availability to Rome is not bad at all, and its
Business Elite
class is excellent
with flat - bed seats and extensive entertainment choices.
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.
OneMileAtATime has noticed that
award availability on this new route appears to be wide open
with as many as 6
Business Class seats available on some flights.
Just like
with the amazing
Business Class award availability which opened up at the end of May, the First
Class award availability I'm seeing is for January — March 2017.
Yes, you still have to pay fees
with Iberia, and they're much more than those typically tied to United
award flights, but if there's no
availability in
business class through other alliances, it might be worth it to you to pay the fee to get your
business class saver tickets.
The AA
award chart showed just one day
with premium cabin
availability and that was Dec 23rd
with a connecting
business class flight via Melbourne.
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.
On the redemption side, the
award chart to / from Europe isn't too bad (62,500 miles for a transatlantic one - way in
business class) and you get access to much better
availability on AF / KL's own flights that when booking
with Delta.
-LSB-...] United miles are awesome for economy and
Business Class awards with no fuel surcharges and great Sav...
availability.
They do partner
with Virgin Australia, and that airline offers good
business class award availability to Australia.
At the time, there was a single date in all of 2014
with first or
business class award availability at the saver level.
Delta is actually the best for booking Australia
business class awards, one of the toughest frequent flyer
awards out there, because of their partnership
with Virgin Australia (which has the best
availability non-stop between the U.S. and Australia, especially on their Los Angeles — Brisbane flight).
In the meantime, it makes it a no - brainer to redeem for Cathay Pacific First
Class instead of business class if using US Airways Dividend miles, although the challenge with that is that it's become harder to find Cathay Pacific award availability for two people traveling toge
Class instead of
business class if using US Airways Dividend miles, although the challenge with that is that it's become harder to find Cathay Pacific award availability for two people traveling toge
class if using US Airways Dividend miles, although the challenge
with that is that it's become harder to find Cathay Pacific
award availability for two people traveling together.
The
award space in
business class on Skyteam members Saudia (from Washington DC or New York, through Riyadh and Jeddah) and Aeroflot (a much better airline than you think, and
with great
availability out of New York and DC through Moscow) is better than on almost any airline.
Getting
Award Flights to Paris Using Miles: See our post Airlines and Routes
with First and
Business Class Availability for Europe
Getting
Award Flights to Switzerland Using Miles: See our post Airlines and Routes
with First and
Business Class Availability for Europe
It has trouble
with some partner
award availability and pulling up
awards with mixed cabins (for instance, if one flight has a
business -
class seat
availability but the next segment only has economy
awards available), though that seems to have gotten better lately.
Sometimes, a
business / first
class award only has
availability on one segment
with the rest in economy.