Here's a sample date where there are plenty of first -
class award seats from Hong Kong - Seoul - New York:
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.
Not exact matches
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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.
With a Mileage Upgrade
Award, you can go
from the main cabin or Delta Comfort + to a
seat in first
class, the new Delta Premium Select, or Delta One.
Two caveats: You can't buy a first
class seat with miles
from Delta, and if you're able to fly during the low season, you can get an off - peak
award ticket in economy
from American or US Airways for only 15,000 miles.
A business
class award seat cost 72,250 miles and 68,000 miles
from New York and L.A. respectively, so the difference is not that big.
It turned out that Singapore Airlines had 2
awards seats (again in Suites
Class) departing Hong Kong for Singapore 3 nights before the Suites
Class flight
from Singapore to London.
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.
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 777 - 300 offers 52 Business
Class seats while the Dreamliner has just 28 so, not only is the route losing First
Class, it will also see a significant drop in Business
Class capacity
from 15 December — that's not good for prices or for
award availability.
Lufthansa first -
class seats on many planes include a bed completely separate
from your
seat, but it is one of the hardest
awards to get and they only appear on partners» websites a couple weeks before take - off.
While with many airlines the
award chart sweet spots are found using one airline to fly a partner, Korean Air gives great rates to fly its own wonderful first -
class suite
from one of its more than a dozen U.S. destinations, with first -
class seats for 80,000 miles one way.
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.
On the inaugural flight I enjoyed my economy
class seat in 16H, but on the return flight I was able to upgrade to business
class with help
from the Booking Guru
Award Service.
Importantly,
from an
award booking point of view, the Air Tahiti Nui Dreamliner will not offer any fewer Business
Class seats than the A340 it is replacing.
On the negative side the aircraft swap will see the route go
from having 53 premium cabin
seats (16 First
Class and 37 Business
Class) to just 30 Business
Class seats — not good news for upgrades or
awards.
Level will offer 6 fare
classes: Basic Economy offers a flight
from A to B with 1 piece of handluggage and you'll pay extra for
seat assignment, food and checked luggage, but do earn (some) Avios
award miles.
-LSB-...] via Lazy Travelers, you can now find First
Class suite
award seats from the US to Singapore!
For example, I've also found it easier to find
awards seats in Etihad First
Class from AUH to JFK rather than
from JFK to AUH.
There are no
award charts that allow for Premium Economy
seats to be solely booked using points or miles yet but you can use Lufthansa Miles and More miles to upgrade to Premium Economy
from a paid Economy
Class ticket.
Those
award prices for flights to Paris are for economy
seats, but if you really want to fly close to the one you love for Valentine's Day, you can book first -
class seats on the Singapore Airlines A380 that flies
from JFK to Frankfurt, Germany.
Sure it's still tough to get 2 first
class award seats on their A380
from US destinations to and
from Asia.
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.
I didn't see any first
class saver
awards from dfw but economy
seats are available.
US Airways often releases two business
class award seats on their flight
from Philadelphia to Manchester.
Air France may not have the world's best first
class seat, but that doesn't stop them
from restricting first
class awards as if that were the case.
I managed to snag two first
class award seats on CX
from ORD - HKG eleven months out using US DM.
Pulling up random dates ~ 10 months
from now, most dates between Los Angeles and Seoul Incheon have ~ 8 - 10 first
class award seats available.
From the U.S. to Japan,
award seats begin at 50,000 miles for round - trip in economy, 65,000 for premium economy, 100,000 for business
class and 140,000 for first
class.
Twitter follower Patrick found four Etihad First
Class award seats this week on a flight
from Los Angeles to Abu Dhabi and asked whether that was normal.
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.