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Furthermore, your chances of finding award availability for the dates you want are much better if you book early.

Not to mention finding award availability for all those segments would be quite a chore.

Check out the following articles for further assistance on finding award availability for Star Alliance flights.

You may be able to find award availability for those airlines on the Flying Blue website (the KLM and Air France frequent flyer program) or by calling Delta Reservations.

For the purposes of this blog post I just checked random 5 - night date ranges in December, February, April, June and August and found award availability for every night.

It's not the easiest route to find award availability for, though.

Whether you're working toward a revenue requirement for elite airline status or you can't find award availability for your travel dates, sometimes you have to pay for a ticket with cash rather than miles or points.

Not exact matches

Since United is the only US - based carrier in Star Alliance, you will have the best chance to find award seat availability for your area with this airline.

Availability can be tough to find for many of these routes, but Air New Zealand domestic and Australia flights have decent award aAvailability can be tough to find for many of these routes, but Air New Zealand domestic and Australia flights have decent award availabilityavailability.

Because of the Barclay Arrival Plus MasterCard's easy - to - use miles program, you don't have to worry about saving up enough miles for a particular redemption or trying to find award availability.

Before you transfer your points to a partner, we always recommend you find availability for the award.

Option # 5: Look for awards travel on partner airlines; some of them may end up being cheaper than flights on Delta, and you may find better availability.

You might find it helpful to begin by searching for one - way flights and only later attempt to make a round - trip or multi-city reservation once you know all the dates that have award availability.

We would also get the other legs (one YHZ - YYZ and one YYZ - YHZ) available for use when we can find much more award availability.

The award calendar is useful for finding awards on a specific airline because it shows the cheapest price on every day of the month that has availability.

Before you transfer your points to a partner, we always recommend you find availability for the award.

First, by carrying a Chase United card (even the fee - free version) you have access to more saver level domestic Economy award availability (HT: bluecat who correctly points out the availability extends to international flights on United metal) I haven't found the difference that noticeable for the most part, but while doing some research for an upcoming Brandon Asks post I noticed it was quite useful for positioning flights.

I don't know where you're flying from, but I searched availability in July — a peak travel time — from Chicago to Honolulu, and found award tickets typically available for between 60,000 and 70,000 miles round - trip.

Because of the Barclay Arrival Plus MasterCard's easy - to - use miles program, you don't have to worry about saving up enough miles for a particular redemption or trying to find award availability.

In reality, I'd been looking at award availability for both trips concurrently, knowing that award flights to Anchorage may be difficult to find at the very height of Alaska's short annual window of pleasant weather.

You'd never be want to pay for those seats using Flexperks or Arrival points as you'd have to spend ungodly amounts to cover the cash cost of the tickets) To me, the flexibility to book seats I want, when I want, vastly outweighs maximizing the value I could theoretically obtain IF I could find availability using «optimal» award programs.

Searching with flexible dates allows you to find the best availability of Saver Awards, which are typically available for half of the miles a Standard Award requires.

Availability can be tough to find, but for one of the best award flight deals, it's definitely worth the patience!

Finding availability for award flights for British Airways Avios awards and AAdvantage awards is the same process.

I'll only look for one person in order to increase my chances of finding award availability, but I'll stick to June 1.

Option # 5: Look for awards travel on partner airlines; some of them may end up being cheaper than flights on Delta, and you may find better availability.

Finding seats can be extremely difficult of course, but we do the legwork for you on a search for award availability.

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.

A 2014 study ranked US Airways 24th out of 25 airlines worldwide for lowest - level award availability, and found that award flights on US Airways required more miles on average than any other major U.S. or Canadian airline.

If you like to travel during peak travel times, waiting until a couple of weeks or months before your travel date is a recipe for not finding the award flights or hotel nights that you want since availability is limited.

American Airlines awards are valid for up to a year from the date of purchase so, if you can't find award availability on the dates you're prepared to travel, this is what you can do:

If you're trying to find award availability on a OneWorld airline BritishAirways.com is the best place to start — the airline may be pretty useless at most things but its site is great for OneWorld award searches.

Finding Saver Award availability with Delta is always an adventure, especially during the summer, so don't get upset if you cant find anything for the dates you want.

On many of United's premium routes (routes that you may wish to burn miles on) award availability is scarce and you simply won't be able to find the flights you want on dates that work for you — miles aren't very flexible like that as you're at the mercy of the airlines.

When I searched for availability from the US to Auckland with United on Aeroplan's website, I found a lot of United award availability for flights 5 + months out and decent availability for flights only a couple of months out but it wasn't the kind of availability I liked.

Note: To find Etihad awards that are available to book using AAdvantage Miles you need to look out for Etihad Guest availability (the first column in any results from an award search).

Further, this award is notorious for being difficult to land because phone agents can rarely find availability to score this golden ticket.

Not only that but you can't even book an award night online... you have to call up to find out just how many Starpoints they want to gouge you for and to find if there is any availability — welcome to the 1990's.

If you ever manage to find low - level award availability with Delta, you could make a killing redeeming cheaply - earned Virgin Atlantic miles for that award, though I certainly wouldn't hold my breath.

Last, search for award availability on the route (s) that you found in an airline search engine that provides the best results.

Etihad award space is available on its own website; look for «Guest Seat» availability to find award space made available to partners.

I recommend checking ITA Flight Matrix and calling the airline, after you've found award availability, to ask for an estimate of the fuel surcharges.

Availability can be tough to find for many of these routes, but Air New Zealand domestic and Australia flights have decent award aAvailability can be tough to find for many of these routes, but Air New Zealand domestic and Australia flights have decent award availabilityavailability.

I hardly found any Domestic business class awards that are reasonably priced, Delta uses dynamic pricing based on the demand, availability for sky miles redemption.

Those aren't terrible prices to pay for premium cabins on the likes of JAL or Cathay Pacific but, once again there's no guarantee you'll find award availability on dates where cash fares are higher than that cost.

These can be as low as 20,000 miles each way for a Super Saver award, but you will find much better availability at the Saver level for 30,000 miles.

Buying miles to book SAAver awards for flights on American Airlines is a bad idea because you'll find that availability is nearly impossible to find.

To redeem miles for award flights, you need to find award availability.

I guess I could transfer across some Starpoints to Elevate (the transfer ratio is 1:1) but I have those Starpoints earmarked for a trip next spring... and it's not like Virgin Australia award availability to / from the US is all that easy to find either.

Purchasing 20,000 Starpoints is enough for a couple free nights depending on the hotel — particularly if you find some good cash and points award availability.