They do partner with Virgin Australia, and that airline offers
good business class award availability to Australia.
Not exact matches
When searching, it's
best to select
Business or First
Class, even if you're primarily focused on Economy
availability, as BA's
award engine.
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.
The biggest problem that almost everybody will tell you is that SAAver
award availability in
business class to Europe usually is not
good at all.
Availability in the other direction (Auckland to Doha) is pretty
good do and, in this case, there are actually 4
Business Class awards available on the very first Qatar Airways non-stop flight between Auckland and Doha:
BA.com showed
Business Class award availability on most Cathay Pacific flights between Tokyo and Hong Kong on my chosen date but, rather than just book the flight with the
best timings, there was one last thing to take into consideration.
Today I wanted to cover how the
best way to get to Asia right now is with outstanding Asiana
business class award availability.
Chicago actually has even
better availability than Los Angeles because
Business Class awards are also available in January.
The aircraft also offers a Premium Economy cabin which, considering how little seat - width the seats in Economy
Class offer, may be a
good compromise if
Business Class is expensive or if
Business Class award availability is non-existent.
The 777 - 300 offers 52
Business Class seats while the Dreamliner has just 28 so, not only is the route losing First
Class, it will also see a significant drop in
Business Class capacity from 15 December — that's not
good for prices or for
award availability.
Secondly, this sees a significant decrease in the number of
Business Class seats available on the route and that's not going to be
good for upgrades or the already pathetic
award availability.
It would be
good news for some if the airline was to price Premium Economy closer to Economy
Class than to
Business Class (in terms of miles needed for an
award) but it may be bad need for
Business Class award availability if Emirates shrinks
Business Class cabins to accommodate the new product.
Air New Zealand transpacific
business class cabins feature very comfortable lie - flat seats,
good food and exceptional service, and the airline has recently begun opening up its
business class award availability.
On top of this the A380 offers more
Business Class seating than the 777 (
good for
award availability) and the Economy
Class product is more comfortable - its a win all round.
Virgin Australia offers the most
award availability in
business class between the U.S. and Australia, as
well as the
best routing.
On the redemption side, the
award chart to / from Europe isn't too bad (62,500 miles for a transatlantic one - way in
business class) and you get access to much
better availability on AF / KL's own flights that when booking with Delta.
Availability is still very
good, though typically there are two first and two to four
business class award seats per flight.
Historically
business class award availability on Fiji Airways isn't especially
good, though I've seen a
good amount of space lately, especially if booking in advance.
As a rule of thumb, first
class award availability is often
better than
business class award availability, as backwards as it may seem.
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).
The
award space in
business class on Skyteam members Saudia (from Washington DC or New York, through Riyadh and Jeddah) and Aeroflot (a much
better airline than you think, and with great
availability out of New York and DC through Moscow) is
better than on almost any airline.
Award availability became really outstanding when they put an Airbus A380 on the route, and the aircraft has a pretty
good business class product as
well.
Availability is out of this world
good, at least if you're looking for two (and not more than two)
business class award seats.
While economy
award space on American Airlines is still pretty
good for many different routes, there has been a lot of grief lately over
business class availability at the SAAver level.
It has trouble with some partner
award availability and pulling up
awards with mixed cabins (for instance, if one flight has a
business -
class seat
availability but the next segment only has economy
awards available), though that seems to have gotten
better lately.