Etihad also presents a wealth of opportunities, including Etihad's own first class redemptions, redemptions on American at the old, pre-devaluation levels, as well as the cheapest transatlantic business
class award seat redemption in the world.
Not exact matches
Until our premium economy
seats are assigned a fare
class and loaded for sale, it's too soon to say what the upgrade policies will be or what rates will be applied for
redemption awards.
Remember that United's
award redemptions for first
class and business
class seats are some of the most expensive in the game.
The best business
class redemption is a 90,000 - mile
award seat between the continental U.S. and South America.
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.
Another 30,000 miles (25,000 transferred Starpoints) would get you a one - way flight from Europe in Lufthansa first
class, with increased access to
award seats compared to
redemptions of partner
award miles.
Please check our previous report, Best American Airlines First and Business
Class Redemptions, on how to search the award space and the type of the premium class
Class Redemptions, on how to search the
award space and the type of the premium
class class seat.
Using ExpertFlyer.com I can see that, in the first week the A380 begins service to London, there are 3 First
Class seats available for
award redemption on almost every day — and in both directions!
The airline releases more business
class award seats at the saver
redemption level than economy
seats.
I was up to the challenge of finding the perfect
award redemption and I knew this trip presented a great opportunity to try out some of the best business and first
class seats in the industry.
While airlines are raising the price of their first
class award redemptions (United announced a recent hike from 160,000 to a whopping 280,000 miles for first
class from the US to the Middle East on its partners, and Delta will not even allow fliers to cash in miles for international first
class seats), there are still some good deals out there.