However, I lucked out and was able to book two business -
class award seats using United Airlines MileagePlus miles.
Not exact matches
Generally, the only time it makes sense to book a British Airways first
class award is by
using the British Airways Travel Together Ticket so you can get 2 first
class seats for the miles of on.
And depending on how you like to
use your miles and points, you can get terrific deals booking Business and First
Class award seats worth thousands of dollars.
Using a MileSAAver
award, a business
class seat to the same destinations would cost only 25,000 miles.
SWISS first
class awards are not bookable
using KrisFlyer Miles and neither are premium economy
seats on Star Alliance partner airlines.
Additionally, Delta has announced that as of June 20, SkyMiles members will be able to
use their miles for a number of other products including upgrades to some cabin
classes, selecting preferred
seats, ticket change fees,
award ticket redeposit fees, same - day confirmed fees, and external ticket charges.
Hot Tip: The ability to put
award seats on hold makes
using American miles one of the easiest ways to book Qantas first
class.
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.
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.
Hot Tip: The ability to put
award seats on hold makes
using American miles one of the easiest ways to book Qantas business
class.
Generally, the only time it makes sense to book a British Airways first
class award is by
using the British Airways Travel Together Ticket so you can get 2 first
class seats for the miles of on.
Hot Tip: The ability to put
award seats on hold makes
using American miles one of the easiest ways to book Japan Airlines first
class.
I set alerts (
using ExpertFlyer.com) for London — Aruba Business
Class awards and, between November and January American Airlines didn't release a single
seat.
SkyMiles offer the cheapest
award seats in economy at 80,000 miles, but
using AAdvantage miles will get you the cheapest business
class tickets.
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.
As most readers know, it's already become very difficult to book Cathay Pacific first
class in advance
using AAdvantage miles, especially if you're searching for two
award seats.
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.
He doesn't make it super-clear, but he actually tells you how to
use AAdvantage miles to book those 2 first
class award seats on the A380... you just need to have miles in another program, too, like Avios...
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.
While they
used to also release a lot of first
class award space, that's no longer the case, though you can still occassionally find two first
class award seats.
I managed to snag two first
class award seats on CX from ORD - HKG eleven months out
using US DM.
TravelSort Reader Jen asks: «I was lucky enough to grab some first
class Singapore Airlines
award tickets
using United miles this summer, but never chose
seats.