One of the most common ways to book
business class award tickets on EVA Air from the U.S. is through United Airlines» MileagePlus program.
Check out our step - by - step guide to booking
business class award tickets on United Airlines.
Check out our step - by - step guide to learn the best ways to book
business class award tickets on American Airlines.
Check out our step - by - step guide to learn the best ways to book
business class award tickets on American Airlines.
For 46,000 Avios, you can book a one - way
business class award ticket on Iberia's partner Royal Air Maroc.
Here is a chart of some randomly chosen British Airways routes from London together with the number of Avios and AAdvantage Miles required for a roundtrip
Business Class award ticket on each route:
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).
In fact, the pricing
on Business class Saver awards is so reasonable that cardholders who normally couldn't afford business class could easily rack up enough United Miles to fund a round - trip ticket to Europe or Asia in busines
Business class Saver
awards is so reasonable that cardholders who normally couldn't afford
business class could easily rack up enough United Miles to fund a round - trip ticket to Europe or Asia in busines
business class could easily rack up enough United Miles to fund a round - trip
ticket to Europe or Asia in
businessbusiness class.
Landing a premium
class award ticket in First or
Business class on Singapore has traditionally been a difficult task for North American points and miles collectors due to the common Singapore Airlines practice of offering first and business class award space almost solely to members of their own KrisFlyer
Business class on Singapore has traditionally been a difficult task for North American points and miles collectors due to the common Singapore Airlines practice of offering first and
business class award space almost solely to members of their own KrisFlyer
business class award space almost solely to members of their own KrisFlyer program.
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.
If you've still got an Aeroplan / SWISS First
award ticket (s) hanging around in an ambiguous state it might be worth holding
on to it until you can change it to a Lufthansa First or
Business Class ticket.
Often overlooked, All Nippon Airways (ANA) Mileage Club is a great way to book Star Alliance partner
award tickets... and booking
business class awards on EVA Air is no exception.
If you'd rather not spend that much, Miles & More has great deals
on domestic round - trip
business class award tickets.
If you manage to avail such
award at 50 % off rate
on the Europe — North America route, you'll need to pay only 25,000 FlyingBlue miles for one way
business class tickets and 12,500 miles for one way economy
class tickets, making it an excellent deal!
A United round - trip
ticket in
business class will only cost you 88,000 ANA
award miles, or 55,000
award miles in economy, and ANA doesn't add fuel surcharges
on United flights.
The key thing to note is that sometimes all of the economy saver
awards sell out before all of the
business saver
awards do — and the price of the economy
award tickets are then actually higher than a
business class award seat
on the same flight.
You can fly Emirates or Qatar Airways in
business class on a one - way
award ticket for 66,000 Enrich miles from the U.S. East Coast to the Middle East.
You will generally receive a 25 - 50 % discount
on economy and
business class award tickets from Europe to specific cities.
While there is nothing wrong with economy
class or budget travel, many points - pinching travelers miss out
on bargains because they aren't even looking at the price of the
business -
class award tickets.
For 50,000 Flying Club miles, you can book a round - trip
award ticket on South African Airways in
business class from Washington - Dulles (IAD).
A
business class ticket on Cathay Pacific between Los Angeles and Hong Kong falls into Asia Miles
award Zone D (5,000 to 7,500 miles) and costs 120,000 miles per roundtrip.
Quick tip: if you are planning
on using miles to upgrade, search for
business class award space prior to booking your premium economy
ticket.
If you assume that $ 2,500 is a fair price for a Lufthansa
Business Class roundtrip
ticket then, allowing for the $ 620 in fees you have to pay
on the
award, 105, ooo miles is getting you $ 1,880 of value.
Etihad offers complimentary Chauffer service for
Business and First
class passengers even
on award tickets
Throughout the year, Flying Blue has Promo
Awards that offer special pricing
on flights for economy and
business class tickets.
For the past few years two of the big «sweet spots» in the AAdvantage program have been the cost of
Business and First
Class award tickets,
on Etihad, for travel between Europe and the Middle East.
American have continued their assault
on award redemptions to Hawaii by implementing a 40 % increase in the number of miles needed for a
Business Class ticket but, in the case of partner
awards, this doesn't make much difference as most people would be flying to Hawaii
on American Airlines and not a partner airline anyway.
If you fly United, that's enough for a roundtrip
business class ticket from North America to Europe
on a Saver
Award and enough for two round trips from North America to Europe in economy
on a Saver
Award.
On the other hand, a
business class Travel Together
Ticket redemption between Seattle and London in August (the earliest I was able to find
award space) would cost 150,000 Avios and $ 2,514, while two paid
tickets would cost $ 8,093, giving you roughly 3.7 cents per Avios.
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.
If you pay for
Business or First
Class flights then you can still rack up a lot of miles from flying but those of us flying at the back are seeing a far lower rate of return than ever before — Delta and United (and soon American) base the number of miles they
award travelers
on the cost of the
ticket purchased (less taxes) so the cheaper
ticket you by the fewer miles you'll earn.
Quick tip: if you are planning
on using your miles to upgrade, search for
Business Class award space prior to booking your Premium Economy
ticket.
I've often said that, generally, I can't bring myself to cough up the extra miles needed for a First
Class award ticket when
Business Class on most airlines is more than good enough for me (that's not me being low - maintenance, that's just how good the
Business Class hard product often is) but I'll happily do whatever it takes not to sit in Economy.
Taking advantage of some of the discounts
on award tickets mentioned below, you could fly within the U.S. in economy
class for 15,000 miles (~ $ 234 in miles) or from the U.S. to Europe in
business class for 105,000 miles (~ $ 1,638 in miles).
Tickets on Delta Airines are pricey; a
business class award seat to Europe, for example, will cost you 125,000 miles per roundtrip.
For
award tickets, you can receive a 50 % discount
on first
class bookings and a 30 % discount
on business class or economy
class bookings.
In fact, the pricing
on Business class Saver awards is so reasonable, that cardholders who normally couldn't afford business class could easily rack up enough United Miles to fund a round - trip ticket to Europe or Asia in busines
Business class Saver
awards is so reasonable, that cardholders who normally couldn't afford
business class could easily rack up enough United Miles to fund a round - trip ticket to Europe or Asia in busines
business class could easily rack up enough United Miles to fund a round - trip
ticket to Europe or Asia in
businessbusiness class.
With American AAdvantage, you will still spend fewer miles if you fly British Airways» economy
class on award tickets, and it is a bit of a wash
on business class.
Using Alaska's partner
award chart, you can book a one - way
ticket from Africa to the continental US in
business class for 120,000 miles — worth about $ 2,160 based
on TPG's most recent valuations — plus $ 79 in taxes and fees.
Plus points can be transferred to Airtran for flat - rate
awards like
business class upgrades, free
tickets on Airtran, or even free
tickets on any carrier worldwide.
With MileagePlus you can then take Air New Zealand flights from Sydney to New Zealand
on the same
award ticket, though there's often no
Business Class space
on the short 3 hour Sydney to New Zealand flight, so you may have to suck it up in coach for that leg.
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 EW
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 EW
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 EW
Business First lie flat 757 - 200, which I recently reviewed for EWR - LAX.
Most transatlantic
business class awards are
on British Airways, which imposes huge carrier imposed surcharges
on such
tickets
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Award Comes to an End When US Airways left the Star Alliance to join oneworld on March 31, US Airways Dividend Miles members lost the ability to book what Lucky at One Mile At A Time called, «one of the single best award ticket values in the industry» - US Airways» 90,000 - mile business class award between the U.S. and North Asia using Star Alliance carr
Award Comes to an End When US Airways left the Star Alliance to join oneworld
on March 31, US Airways Dividend Miles members lost the ability to book what Lucky at One Mile At A Time called, «one of the single best
award ticket values in the industry» - US Airways» 90,000 - mile business class award between the U.S. and North Asia using Star Alliance carr
award ticket values in the industry» - US Airways» 90,000 - mile
business class award between the U.S. and North Asia using Star Alliance carr
award between the U.S. and North Asia using Star Alliance carriers.
People love Aeroplan because they offer some pretty great redemption options (90,000 miles for
business class to Europe, though they've recently changed their
award chart to be less valuable)-- see here for details, and they love ANA because with their distance - based rewards you can get some great values (63,000 ANA miles for a
business class ticket on Virgin to London which until recently did not require Virgin's outrageous fuel surcharges).
And while this isn't Jen's situation, since she has first
class award tickets on Singapore, note that only Business and First Class award ticket holders are able to select seats in advance on Singapore Airl
class award tickets on Singapore, note that only
Business and First
Class award ticket holders are able to select seats in advance on Singapore Airl
Class award ticket holders are able to select seats in advance
on Singapore Airlines.
- 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.