So you see,
finding award space using the British Airways website is only the first step in booking award travel — pricing the award is an entirely separate question.
Not exact matches
He added that he could probably
find space for a Fair Play
award, and an Emirates Cup participation certificate, but that he was now intending to
use his time at Arsenal to concentrate on whittling, home - brewing his own beer, and learning the saxophone.
You can also
use American Airlines «online search to
find award space on Alaska Airlines.
Just as if you were searching for an
award flight on Delta, you can
use Delta's online
award search function to
find Korean Air business class
award space:
When you are looking for
award space,
use the various tools for
finding Star Alliance
award space, including United.com and the ANA website.
While Delta SkyMiles can be tough to
use for booking
award flights to Australia because of incredibly high redemption rates, your miles can be useful if you
find saver level
award space.
Delta doesn't operate many flights to Hawaii
using their Delta One product with lie - flat seats and direct aisle access, but that is the real sweet spot if you can
find award space on one of their Airbus A330s.
If you can
find award availability
space on any specific flight, you can
use that as part of your itinerary
You won't be able to
find award space on American's site; instead, you'll need to call them and ask them to search for
award space, or
use our preferred method, ExpertFlyer.
I actually prefer the multi-city view if I'm only
using ANA to
find award space and not actually planning to book a ticket.
You can estimate the surcharge before looking for
award space by
using ITA Matrix to
find the same itinerary as a paid (or revenue) ticket.
If you
use this guide when you are searching for an
award, you'll have a much easier time
finding space and the process will be much quicker.
You can also
use American Airlines «online search to
find award space on Alaska Airlines.
To
find award space, call Alaska reservations or
use British Airways»
award booking tool to
find available seat and then call Alaska to book.
London and Paris were
used in these examples because they are well - known cities, and it was easy to
find award space on the same day on multiple carriers.
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.
There's absolutely no guarantee that saver
awards space will become easier to
find and there's no guarantee that American won't devalue its
award charts before you get a chance to
use the miles.
You can't
use it to
find award space on Alaska Airlines or Hawaiian Airlines — both of which are partners of American Airlines.
If you will
use Qantas to
find award space for a ticket that you'll book with another program, it would be much better to see Qatar Airways in this example.
You can generally
find award space online
using a different website before you call the agent to complete the booking.
Just as if you were searching for an
award flight on Delta, you can
use Delta's online
award search function to
find Korean Air business class
award space:
The huge diversity of transfer partners means that you can
find award space in the program you want to
use and then transfer the points to book that
award.
Using a mileage redemption service like
Award Advocate can help take the stress out of finding the award space, save you miles, and most important for busy business travelers — save you
Award Advocate can help take the stress out of
finding the
award space, save you miles, and most important for busy business travelers — save you
award space, save you miles, and most important for busy business travelers — save you time.
The Virgin Atlantic website doesn't list any South America destinations, so you must
use other sources to
find Delta One
award space and then call Virgin Atlantic to book.
If you choose to
use ExpertFlyer, it can
find award space on the following carriers:
This post is meant to help you
find award space on SkyTeam carriers
using the Air France website, but you can book it through Flying Blue or many other loyalty programs.
Still, you can consider
using the American Airlines website to
find award space on these airlines:
The zone - based redemption charts they
use don't care about making connections or if I leave from the East Coast vs. West Coast, so I can add extra flights if it means
finding those with the best
award space.
I
used British Airways» website to search for
award space since American's website won't
find award inventory for Qatar flights.
Use the websites of some of their partners (ANA for Star Alliance or British Airways site for oneworld) to
find the
award space, and then call in to American or United to book the
award.
If you
find a saver
award using another airline's site (or
using ExpertFlyer) and BritishAirways.com doesn't pull it up, give them a call and see if the phone agent can
find the
space for you.
To increase your chance of
finding award space with this trick, make sure to
use city based codes when searching; Bay Area, Los Angeles Area, NYC, WAS, Miami Area, etc..
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
used it to
find business - class
award space on Iberia ahead of the recent AAdvantage devaluation, and I know many others who
use it for
awards like Cathay Pacific first class or JAL business class.
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Use 12,500 Etihad Guest miles to fly on American Airlines one - way anywhere within the USA and Canada when you
find sAAver level
award space (excludes Hawaii)
Anyway, if there is no saver
award space on AA and if you can not
find availability on partner airlines, you're better off saving your miles than
using twice as many for an AAnytime ticket.
Tell the agent the partner airline you want to fly, and feed them the date, flight number, and cabin of the
award space you
found using one of the sites above.