Delta has good to
excellent award availability on Virgin Atlantic (except Seattle), so this is your chance to sample Virgin Atlantic product without paying insanely ridiculous fuel surcharges for the privilege.
Delta has
excellent award availability that often surpasses both American and United, even in business class for more than one passenger.
American has
excellent award availability to London on most of their routes, both in first and business class.
Getting nonstop award seats out of Los Angeles to anywhere in Europe used to be a piece of cake across all alliances, thanks to British Airways and Lufthansa previously having
excellent award availability.
For example, Lufthansa has
excellent award availability out of Atlanta and Detroit (SkyTeam hubs), Air France has excellent award availability out of Washington (Star Alliance hub), British Airways has excellent award availability out of Philadelphia (Star Alliance hub), etc..
While their partner Air France has
excellent award availability, KLM isn't nearly as good when it comes to releasing award space.
Delta miles can offer a better solution than even booking a round trip ticket — their partners Aerolineas Argentinas and Gol Linhas Aereas tend to have
excellent award availability, and a one - way flight is only 12,500 SkyMiles in economy (or 25,000 in business class) plus a nominal amount of taxes and fees (around $ 30 one - way for the cities mentioned).
Perhaps Singapore's many transfer partners and
excellent award availability on its own metal are winning factors in its favor.
Alternatively, consider routing via Asia; for example, try flying Korean Air First Class, which often has
excellent award availability, even for First Class.