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Wide Open Business Class Awards For 4+ Passengers Next Year, Use For Europe/Asia/Mideast/Africa

Jun 25 2020

Turkish Airlines has 4 or more business class award seats available most dates next year, January – May 2021, from a variety of U.S. gateways. You can claim these seats using miles from a variety of different Star Alliance carriers, and connect onward to Eastern Europe, Mideast, Southeast Asia or Africa.

United is also offering wide open business class award space on several transatlantic routes.

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Wide Open Business Class Award Space Non-Stop To India For 4+ Passengers

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Jun 06 2020

United operates three different routes between the U.S. and India and all three have wide open business class award space looking out into 2021 – for months at a time.

I decided to show connecting availability also because it’s worth flagging business class award space for four or more people on Swiss through Zurich and Turkish via Istanbul. There’s even Air Canada business class Delhi – Vancouver for four passengers on Tuesdays.

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American Airlines Decommissions Old Award Search Tool & Calendar

May 19 2020

A year and a half ago American Airlines launched a new award search tool clearly geared towards dynamic pricing of redemptions.

While many readers preferred the old award calendar, which lets you show availability by award type (special, saver, standard) and not just the single lowest price on a given day for each cabin, it was clear that the airline was investing only in the new tool moving forward.

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2021 New Virgin Business Class Award Space For 4+ People Wide Open From East & West Coasts

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May 11 2020

Wide open business class awards for four or more passengers between the U.S. and Europe in Virgin Atlantic’s new product for multiple cities.

Since this is available for 2021, it’s reasonable to book, and there are great mileage values out there – and you can book the seats using points from any of the major transferable bank currencies.

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Great Business Class Award Space To Asia For 4 Passengers With American, Chase or Amex Points

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May 02 2020

I’m starting to want to plan travel, even if it’s not clear when I’ll be able to travel abroad. I’m really hungry for sushi in Tokyo, laksa in Singapore, and prawn mee soup in Malaysia. I want a Asia trip, and there’s great business class award availability to Asia for January – March, 2021 right now. It’s available for four passengers, and far enough out that I’m willing to make some bookings.

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Rare: Business Class Awards On The Longest Flight In The World, Using Choice Of Miles

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Apr 27 2020

Starting in early September, and running through end of schedule, it’s possible to get business class award seats on the longest flight in the world – the Singapore Airlines Newark – Singapore flight – and you do not even need to use Singapore’s own miles to do it.

It’s incredibly rare when Singapore Airlines makes long haul business class award space to partner airlines. In fact I don’t think I’ve seen things this open since a glitch back in July 2012.

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New Golden Age For Frequent Flyers Is Just Around The Corner

Mar 17 2020

A lot of people are grounded right now. Most of us are going to travel again. And we’re sure going to be itching to do so.

No matter what happens with the business of any of the airlines, we’re going to have big airlines to take us where we want to go. They are going to have tons of empty seats for awhile – which means deep discounts, award availability, and aggressive mileage promotions.

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You Can Now Redeem Hilton Points At The Conrad Punta Mita

Feb 27 2020

When hotels aren’t making the award space available to members that they should I’ve had good success getting the loyalty program to intervene. I’ve had especially good success with Hilton, such as with the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem and the Waldorf Astoria Grand Wailea on Maui.

Readers reach out to me all the time with award redemption problems and I do my best to get them solved, week after week.

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