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With its generous first class award availability, they really shine when it comes to access for families.

I originally started collecting them thinking I'd suck up the fuel surcharges flying Boston to London on Virgin Atlantic Upper Class with good award availability.

First class awards can only be booked as flex awards, which cost substantially more than classic awards, but with no change fees and much greater availability than classic awards.

They don't let you book First Class awards with partners at all, they rarely have low - level award availability (and I think this might get worse after the recent devaluation), you can only redeem round trip flights (one - ways are coming in 2015 though), and in general their miles are much harder to use than those of other programs.

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.

The week I'm prepared to travel (10 — 16 December 2016) there is no First Class award availability between London and Abu Dhabi («Guest First» has to show as available if you are to book Etihad First Class with AAdvantage Miles):

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.

The program generally has good award availability, including premium classes on transpacific routes between the U.S. and Asia, which are notoriously hard to get with miles.

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.

For those of us on the West Coast, you can often find a more efficient routing with another airline, though many people still opt to fly Etihad if they can find award availability in Etihad's The Residence or First Class Apartments.

But for first class, or if you want to buy a more expensive award with last seat availability, the prices are pretty much the same.

Some of the best include the following: United Airlines, which opens up access to the huge Star Alliance network of carriers; British Airways, offering great value on short - haul nonstop flights due to their distance - based award chart; Korean Airlines, with amazing award availability in their first class cabins; and Hyatt, which is widely recognized as offering some of the highest value point redemption opportunities of any hotel chain.

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.

We give the nod to Chase due to United having a more valuable currency than Delta, Korean's excellent first class award availability, and being the only program with a worthwhile hotel partner.

-LSB-...] United miles are awesome for economy and Business Class awards with no fuel surcharges and great Sav... availability.

It's worth noting that it's tougher than ever before to find first class Star Alliance award space on Lufthansa and Swiss (see How to Deal with No More Lufthansa Advance First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeksclass Star Alliance award space on Lufthansa and Swiss (see How to Deal with No More Lufthansa Advance First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeksClass Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeks out.

The problem Cathay Pacific is experiencing is high demand for its first class award seats from those with AAdvantage miles, with these seats often booked soon after the award calendar opens, leaving no award availability for its own Asia Miles frequent flyer members who may seek to book just a few months before the date of departure.

They do partner with Virgin Australia, and that airline offers good business class award availability to Australia.

Last year American launched a partnership with Etihad, which has a solid first class product and excellent award availability to the Middle East and India.

High level airline elite status comes with many valuable perks such as free domestic first class upgrades (when available), elite security lines, waived fees (such as free checked bags, and free changes to award bookings), improved availability of award seats, and more.

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 togeClass 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 togeclass 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

Even on dates with 5 award seats on Etihad's Jet Airways configured 777 - 300ER flights (which are a rather poor first class product, hence the lower demand for them) there's no A380 award availability.

Getting Award Flights to Switzerland Using Miles: See our post Airlines and Routes with First and Business Class Availability for Europe

Unlike with Delta, you can book first - class partner awards, and availability on Korean Air flights tends to be very good.

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.