If you're interested in visiting during April, you just need to find
saver award flight availability from your city to Chicago (ORD) during one of these dates.
Not exact matches
Simply looking at the United
award chart, things are already looking up: it takes just 40,000 miles each way on
flights with Economy
Saver availability, adding up to a total requirement of 80,000 miles.
First, by carrying a Chase United card (even the fee - free version) you have access to more
saver level domestic Economy
award availability (HT: bluecat who correctly points out the
availability extends to international
flights on United metal) I haven't found the difference that noticeable for the most part, but while doing some research for an upcoming Brandon Asks post I noticed it was quite useful for positioning
flights.
While I'm not holding my breath that these
awards will be anywhere near as generous or available as, say, American's off - peak
flights to Europe, even an expansion of regular
Saver availability would be excellent.
Here we had a stroke of luck, depending on how you look at it: while the direct service
flight from Los Angeles did not show
availability for a Business Class or First Class
Saver Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
Award on most dates, a mixed class
award connecting through San Francisco was avail
award connecting through San Francisco was available.
After confirming
Saver class
availability for each
flight segment by searching them as one - way
flights, I now stitched them all together in United's multi-destination
award search tool, making certain to choose the specific
flight numbers I'd confirmed
availability on during my one - way searches.
There is no
saver level
award availability on American on the four days preceding the game, or the three days following the game for the return
flight.
In the entire month of October, I found one day with
availability on the LAX — JFK non-stop
flight at the
saver award level.
You can only book American
award flights on Alaska if American has
saver award availability for these
flights.
Markets above are only highlighting
flights that have ample
saver award availability for travel during the month stated above the market list.
If you can find
Saver Award availability on United.com with 2 or fewer connections then you can book the same
flight over the phone.
You can book this
flight using Miles & More miles as long as you find
Saver Award availability on United with no more than 3
flight segments.
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.
Saver level
award availability for
flights is almost completely non-existent and the
flight times are challenging enough as it is even when paying cash.
Since British Airways has a distance - based
award chart and American Airlines is a Oneworld partner, you can use Avios to book any AA
flight with
saver level
award availability and have the price based on the Avios chart.
Please Note: This is an extremely popular route for
award flights, and there is limited
availability on each
flight at the «
saver» level where you can book for 25,000 Avios.
I highly recommend doing your own research in advance and finding
saver award availability at United.com and wiring down the
flight numbers and calling in.
However, there is
saver award availability for 25,000 miles each on American Airlines
flights.
Availability is unfortunately always going to be an issue with
award seats — that's the constraint in the system I try to preach flexibility above all else, so you usually can come by the
Saver Level seats needed to book the 35k Singapore miles on United
flights.
At the time there was very little
availability on AA metal, and I felt lucky to find the premium
saver award space on the 777 - 200 departing JFK at 7:55 p.m. Generally, though, I prefer taking the latest possible trans - Atlantic
flight so that I can get more sleep.
I can see the
flight as a «
saver award» on united.com because I have a united chase explorer card, even though for non-cardholders, united.com shows no
availability.
Switchfly's study calculated the
availability of
saver award seats on the
flights of 25 airlines.
* You can also use Delta's website to search for
availability but keep in mind that in order to book a Delta
flight with either of the Ultimate Rewards Skyteam partners, there must be
award space available at the
saver level on Delta.
I saw
saver award availability from OGG to DFW on AA, so I called Etihad to try and book this
flight using Etihad miles.