There's still a number of days with 2, 4 or more first
class award seats available, so book them while you can!
Pulling up random dates ~ 10 months from now, most dates between Los Angeles and Seoul Incheon have ~ 8 - 10 first
class award seats available.
It's not unusual to see a couple of first and business
class award seats available on that flight.
The flight also often has two first
class award seats available.
This used to be an absolute «secret weapon» when it comes to award availability, given that there were often at least first and business
class award seats available.
Sure, it might seem a little early to start thinking about your summer 2016 Euro trip, but when there's business -
class award seats available during peak season, it's worth planning far in advance.
Feeling pretty good about my guess, I confirmed that there were economy
class award seats available.
As I was playing around with the British Airways Search tool, I noticed that there are as many as 6 business
class award seats available for travelling to India next week.
Though Delta isn't known for offering a generous amount of award space to its partners, I was able to find four first -
class award seats available in August from Denver to Maui via Los Angeles and Seattle using the online award search engine for Alaska Airlines, which you don't even need an account to use.
The first leg was in United economy as there was no domestic First
Class award seat available (I monitored award space but it never opened up — more on that in the Anatomy of an Award post).
Not exact matches
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The next time you search for business
class award space to Seoul, South Korea on Korean Air's site, you'll notice they even let you know how many
seats are
available to be booked with Korean SkyPass miles.
With 2
seats in first
class from the U.S. to London
available several days each month, British Airways is one of the easier first
class awards to find.
Finding first
class award seats on Cathay Pacific is getting tougher and tougher as the airline keeps limiting the number of
available bookings made through partner airlines.
Since business travel plummets during holiday weeks, airlines often make first -
class awards available at the saver
award level even when economy
seats are selling like hotcakes.
If it's the day before departure, you might find all but one unsold first
class seat available as an
award.
For almost a year now I've had ExpertFlyer alerts out for Business
Class awards on 6 different routes to / from Europe (for a friend of mine) and not one single
award seat has been made
available — that's not exactly impressive.
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.
You can often find several business
class seats available for
award bookings just days prior to departure.
Secondly, this sees a significant decrease in the number of Business
Class seats available on the route and that's not going to be good for upgrades or the already pathetic
award availability.
On the United website I found business
class award seats at 130,000 miles
available for my round - trip to Dublin.
Cardholders receive access to extra saver level
awards for economy
class and guaranteed standard level
awards as long as a
seat is
available for purchase.
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!
There is a Saver
award business
class seat available for your destination.
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.
Most people will want to pick a nonstop flight and only the Asiana flight has an
award seat available in Business
Class, so I'm going to pick that one (it's 60,000 miles for the one - way plus $ 77.50 in taxes).
So since Alaska lets you redeem for JAL premium economy, you shouldn't have any trouble finding those
seats when first & business
class awards aren't
available.
Availability: Typically Singapore only releases 1 suites
class award seat in advance, although occasionally you'll see 2
award seats available close to the date of departure.
Unfortunately, if you're looking to fly Air France First
Class, you have no choice but to book these high rates through the Flying Blue program (since Air France makes First
Class award seats only
available to Flying Blue elite members).
I didn't see any first
class saver
awards from dfw but economy
seats are
available.
If I can get a first
class award on United, even without first
class seats for US to Australia (perhaps using a three - cabin first
class flight domestically, or because first
class was
available in one direction) then I can waitlist for the segments I don't have in first.
The
award chart is somewhat competitive, and some premium
class award seats are made
available to members while only being released two weeks in advance to partners.
No longer do you have to hope that American has roundtrip
seats available if you're looking for a JFK - LAX
award ticket in business
class.
This flight frequently has two first
class and two business
award seats available, making it a good option for those originating in Canada.
Awards are now
available, although first
class and to a lesser extent business
class space is very limited — on many dates, there are no first
class and business
class award seats, or just 1 first
class and / or 1 business
class award seat is
available.
The headline here is that there will be 9 fewer business
class seats available, which means there won't be quite the
award availability you may have hoped on the new planes.
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.
Typically within 24 - 36 hours of departure they'll make all but one first
class seat available for
awards.
As I mentioned above, generally all but one first
class seat become
available for
awards 24 - 36 hours before departure.
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.
When there are six or fewer
seats available for
awards, that fact is noted in the search results, and yet that fact is not noted in the screenshot above meaning there are 7 +
award seats in Business
Class on each flight that you can book with American Airlines miles.
I found 4
award seats available from MAD - DOH on QR0148 in business on 28 - Jun but when I called AA, they said no business
class is
available.