Take a look a these screenshots from American Airlines —
all show Business Class award availability on non-stop flights between various US cities and London Heathrow:
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.
Not exact matches
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
Class or First
Class Saver Award on most dates, a mixed class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
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
class award connecting through San Francisco was avail
award connecting through San Francisco was available.
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.
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.
Getting two nonstop
business or first
class seats on a non-stop flight to Paris during warm weather would not normally be an easy proposition, but the born - again Delta Airlines
award chart still
shows awesome
availability to Paris and other European cities in the late summer 2015.