For more options there tends to be
good award availability Virgin Australia.
Not exact matches
The
good news is
Virgin Australia can do it alone with excellent
award availability on many routes.
I originally started collecting them thinking I'd suck up the fuel surcharges flying Boston to London on
Virgin Atlantic Upper Class with
good award availability.
If you live in a community
well - served by low - level Delta
award availability, then earning a slew of cheap
Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles is an easy way to supplement your existing Delta SkyMiles
award balances.
The
good news is
Virgin Australia can do it alone with excellent
award availability on many routes.
Likewise, if you're frequently required to pay for your own
Virgin Atlantic tickets between the US and the UK, you may save money by redeeming Flying Club miles against the fare portion of your ticket's cost, thanks to their quite
good award availability.
Virgin Australia offers the most
award availability in business class between the U.S. and Australia, as
well as the
best routing.
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.
They do partner with
Virgin Australia, and that airline offers
good business class
award availability to Australia.
Roundtrip coach
awards are 60,000 miles (not a bargain) while Upper Class
awards are 100,000 miles and, unlike flights from Newark to London on Continental, there's actually really
good availability on
Virgin in Upper Class.
Overall, this partnership is
good news because
Virgin Atlantic is a transfer partner of American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest, so there are now more options to book Delta flights without having SkyMiles (though partners like
Virgin Atlantic only get access to low - level
awards, meaning
availability can be slim on certain routes).
Delta is actually the
best for booking Australia business class
awards, one of the toughest frequent flyer
awards out there, because of their partnership with
Virgin Australia (which has the
best availability non-stop between the U.S. and Australia, especially on their Los Angeles — Brisbane flight).
French Polynesia because they partner with both airlines flying from the mainland US to Tahiti (Air Tahiti Nui and Air France) and Australia because they partner with
Virgin Australia,
Virgin Australia has the
best award availability to Australia especially on the Los Angeles — Brisbane route, because those seats are even available at Delta.com now, and because they've stopped charging fuel surcharges for those flights as
well.