That's why you'll have to connect via AA or its other partners, like Air Berlin, or Iberia, and finding
premium class availability for these flights can be difficult.
I'm personally not applying for either card, since I don't believe them to be a good value, but the truth be told, Korean Air has crazy good
premium class availability between the US and Asia.
Unfortunately,
premium class availability is hard to find.
Not exact matches
Using monthly risk
premium calculation data during March 1934 through June 2017 (limited by
availability of T - bill data), and monthly dividend - adjusted closing prices for the three asset
class mutual funds during June 1980 through June 2017 (37 years, limited by VFIIX), we find that:
A huge caveat, however, is award
availability, which is much harder to find in
premium classes than an economy seat.
The program generally has good award
availability, including
premium classes on transpacific routes between the U.S. and Asia, which are notoriously hard to get with miles.
This means I will see
availability in the first and business
class cabins, plus either economy or
premium economy depending on the route.
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 also offers plenty of first
class availability and affordable
premium cabin redemptions on its own flights.
The AA award chart showed just one day with
premium cabin
availability and that was Dec 23rd with a connecting business
class flight via Melbourne.
You won't always find nonstop business or first
class availability on every airline, but if you do keep in mind not all
premium seats are equal and
availability can be limited.
While a route serviced by an A350 should be an aircraft where
premium award seats can be made available, it's likely that
availability for business
class seats will be scarce so I wouldn't rely on booking these seats with partners like United.
Alaska has decent award
availability for
premium class awards on Cathay Pacific, and the airline can take you beyond Southeast Asia.
Either route offers about the same
availability for
premium cabins, and Turkish Airlines has one of the best business
class products in the world.
Finding a Delta
premium class award to Asia is an adventure, but it usually has decent to good
availability on Korean Air and one of the two Chinese SkyTeam members: China Eastern or / and China Southern.
American has had really poor saver award
availability recently, especially for international
premium classes, which means British Airways is often the only transatlantic award option.
Investment sales volume in the market rose 8.0 percent, according to Marcus & Millichap, with investors targeting
class - B buildings due to the lack of
availability of
premium assets.