You can also, on occasion
find some first class awards very close to departure, sometimes even as close as 24 hours!
It's easier to find business class awards for a family, generally, than it is to
find first class awards.
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.
If your travel plans aren't very flexible, Asia Miles could be your best bet for
finding first class award space.
Let's try to
find a first class award seat on American between New York and Sao Paulo, Brazil sometime in May.
Finding a first class award seat isn't always easy, but you can find them if you book well in advance of your flight.
After a few days of searching here and there,
I found first class award availability from LAX - ICN (Seoul).
Not exact matches
Economy
awards are also cheaper (but not by much), while
first class awards are just a touch higher than what you'll
find with United MileagePlus.
They told me they would not / could not honor the SWISS
First booking, but they could reaccommodate me on another carrier or in another
class of service if we could
find partner level
award space available.
I'm lucky on the
first try, and Aeroplan
found an
award on Lufthansa's non-stop flight from Seattle to Frankfurt in business
class.
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.
In the past, you could not mix an Economy
Class seat into a
First Class award, and would have to
find your way to the gateway city on another ticket.
If you see 772 or 773, you might be able to
find first or business
class award space on another date.
Let's be clear —
finding Qantas
first class award availability will not be easy.
A
first class flight on Qantas will cost only 70,000 Alaska miles, but it is extremely rare to
find the necessary
award space.
First class award availability on Qantas is notoriously difficult to
find.
A
first class award seat on Qantas isn't easy to
find, but we'll show you how to give yourself the best chance and what to expect on this amazing flight.
Find out more about our
award winning
First and International Business
class and other
classes of travel on Qantas.
While
first class award space isn't always the easiest to
find, you can sometimes
find a single seat if you check back regularly.
Finally, those who hope to book some of the most luxurious
awards on partner Singapore Airlines will
find their attempts thwarted: any
award in this carrier's
first class cabin on an Airbus A380 or Boeing 777 - 300ER is blocked in the system.
A lot of people prefer the in - air product of Jet Blue over Southwest for longer flights since it has tv's, free wifi, more leg room, business /
first class «Mint» cabins, allows you to pick your seat, etc. but both airlines constantly rate among the best for
award availability, making them both solid choices for getting around the country, in terms of
finding award seats.
I set out to determine which cities I should focus on for my search to
find either business or
first class award space.
If it's the day before departure, you might
find all but one unsold
first class seat available as an
award.
I will hold off on future changes until I
find a good
first class award, and that is not likely to happen until a few days before departure.
I
found plenty of dates during the summer where
first -
class awards from Denver to Maui cost 165,000 miles round - trip!
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.
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This means that there can be some great value to be had if you select the right redemption options — like Cathay Pacific in Business or
First Class between Europe and Asia (not a hard
award to
find), LAN Business
Class from the US to South American and Korean Air Business
Class between the US and Asia.
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.
We will search
award inventory on the airlines associated with your points to
find economy, business and
first class seats to exotic destinations.
Business
class award availability on Qantas is very difficult to
find, but not quite as difficult as
first class award space.
Korean Air has very popular
First and Business
Class products and
finding award availability on Korean isn't nearly as challenging as it can be on its transpacific competitors.
While I wouldn't call
award availability on Thai's
first international A350 route «wide open» it's definitely reasonably easy to
find Business
Class award seats.
There is some amazing value to be had out of those options — especially Cathay Pacific in
First Class between Europe and Asia (not a hard
award to
find) and Korean Air Business
Class from $ 2,216.
-LSB-...] via Lazy Travelers, you can now
find First Class suite
award seats from the US to Singapore!
This means that AAdvantage members who
find and book
award space before this deadline could save thousands of miles, especially for business - and
first -
class travel.
I
found that the flights out of San Francisco has plenty of
award availability in Business and
First Class.
Since U.S. SkyTeam partner Delta doesn't allow
first -
class partner
awards, there is much less competition for these seats than you would
find on other airlines.
For those of us on the West Coast, you can often
find a more efficient routing with another airline, though many people still opt to fly Etihad if they can
find award availability in Etihad's The Residence or
First Class Apartments.
If you are scrambling to lock in
awards at old rates, you might be having trouble
finding Etihad business /
first class award seats even though Etihad shows availability.
Premium
class award seats can be difficult to find on many airlines, particularly those offering exceptional services like Asiana's First Suite C
class award seats can be difficult to
find on many airlines, particularly those offering exceptional services like Asiana's
First Suite
ClassClass.
That means you can not fly economy
class to a gateway city to meet up with that amazing
first class award you finally
found to your destination.
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.
I was lucky to
find a
First Class Saver
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One of the best
first class experiences — if you can
find award space — is on Qantas, the primary carrier in Australia.
So if you're planning last minute or way in advance you still shouldn't have trouble
finding space, but this isn't an airline that's always going to have business or
first class award space.
And since I was having a tough time
finding Lufthansa
first class availability out of NYC on my required date, I fortunately
found what I needed out of Washington DC Dulles (IAD), on the A340 - 300, and I was able to book this Lufthansa
first class award 15 days in advance.
Award travel enthusiasts often focus on earning first class flights and five - star hotels, but sometimes the best value can be found further down on the award c
Award travel enthusiasts often focus on earning
first class flights and five - star hotels, but sometimes the best value can be
found further down on the
award c
award chart.
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.
It's worth noting that it's tougher than ever before to
find first class Star Alliance award space on Lufthansa and Swiss (see How to Deal with No More Lufthansa Advance First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeks
first class Star Alliance award space on Lufthansa and Swiss (see How to Deal with No More Lufthansa Advance First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeks
class Star Alliance
award space on Lufthansa and Swiss (see How to Deal with No More Lufthansa Advance
First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeks
First Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up award space no more than three weeks
Class Availability), so nowadays this is most practical when planning close to departure, as Lufthansa tends to open up
award space no more than three weeks out.