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.
Not exact matches
So Miles & More will charge you fewer miles for
business and first
class awards than
if you used United miles AND you get more
availability.
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.
If there is no
award availability in economy, then redeeming your miles for a
business class ticket still makes economic sense.
Lufthansa generally only releases
award seats to partners within a week or so of departure, so you can book
business class and change to first -
class if availability opens up.
If you're looking for summer
award availability to Europe in
business class you may want to check out this United route.
Because it's not that rare to find
Business Class flights between the US and London coming in at under $ 2,000 and, on top of that,
if you're booking an
award you still have the issue of finding
availability... and that hasn't been easy in recent years.
As stated,
award availability for (saver)
business class to New Zealand on United is not great and you'll need to book far in advance
if you want to even have a chance to snag redemptions with
business class seats between the US and Australia / New Zealand.
Includes: Some great
Business Class fares between the UK and the US, details of amazing American Airlines
Business Class award availability, the latest Amex travel offers you should be signing up for (
if targeted), news of the first major 3Q hotel promotion and a lot more.
American Airlines AAdvantage miles are very hard to use economically thanks to the dearth of premium cabin SAAver
awards, United Miles are ok but 100,000 won't get you a roundtrip
Business Class award to any major long - haul destination (
if you're heading east or west) while 100,000 Alaska Miles will get you some nice roundtrip redemptions on Cathay Pacific and even American (subject to
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.
Yes, you still have to pay fees with Iberia, and they're much more than those typically tied to United
award flights, but
if there's no
availability in
business class through other alliances, it might be worth it to you to pay the fee to get your
business class saver tickets.
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.
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.
In the meantime, it makes it a no - brainer to redeem for Cathay Pacific First
Class instead of business class if using US Airways Dividend miles, although the challenge with that is that it's become harder to find Cathay Pacific award availability for two people traveling toge
Class instead of
business class if using US Airways Dividend miles, although the challenge with that is that it's become harder to find Cathay Pacific award availability for two people traveling toge
class if using US Airways Dividend miles, although the challenge with that is that it's become harder to find Cathay Pacific
award availability for two people traveling together.
Availability is out of this world good, at least
if you're looking for two (and not more than two)
business class award seats.
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.