Not exact matches
While several airlines,
including United, Japan Airlines, and All Nippon Airways, offer direct flights between New York and Tokyo, Korean Air offers the most frequent flyer
award availability — useful for us, since we only had a little bit of schedule flexibility — and is a transfer
partner of Chase, whose points we had already started to earn.
Its a great thing to be aware and share the sweet spots on
award charts but its really not that cut and dry IMHO For example Alaska is not a One World
partner and while they certainly make some
availability available to Alaska its a much smaller pool of inventory and frequently only available close to departure to book Added to that you can not mix any other One World
partner on the itinerary making it not the sweet spot its made out to be when you have to book yet another
award that would be
included otherwise with a One World
partner booking using Cathay
Delta SkyMiles have long been derisively referred to as «SkyPesos» due to their many limitations,
including terrible domestic
award availability and the inability to redeem them for first - class seats on
partner airlines.