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SkyTeam member Vietnam Airlines flies non-stop between the U.S. and Vietnam – four-times weekly San Francisco – Ho Chi Minh City service – with an Airbus A350. There is fantastic business class award availability right now for this flight, for up to 4 passengers per flight, whether looking for trips right away through eleven months from now. You can use this flight to connect onward in Southeast Asia (or, if you’re willing to pay the requisite miles, even beyond).
Japan Airlines business class awards are wide open from a number of different cities, and you can book them using American Airlines or Alaska Airlines miles – as well as points from credit card transfer progams.
You’ll find availability out of Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and even San Francisco, New York JFK Dallas and San Diego. Broadly speaking this is available for winter months, with most available dates offering 2 business class award seats but some dates offering 4 seats.
Singapore Airlines business class between New York JFK and Frankfurt is wide open for awards using Air Canada Aeroplan. Up to 9 business class award seats per flight are available.
There’s exceptional availability in both business and first class on the New York JFK – Hong Kong route in April and May (generally first class is just back from Hong Kong) and you can use this to connect onward in Asia.
Right now there’s wide open availability from 11 U.S. cities on Qatar Airways to book mileage awards in their QSuites business class – to Doha and beyond, whether you’re looking at the Middle East, Maldives, or Africa. Use it to get to India or Pakistan, too.
Business class award space is wide open on Star Alliance member Swiss. You’ll find availability from New York JFK, Washington Dulles, Chicago O’Hare and even from Los Angeles and San Francisco, with two passengers easy to find and some dates offering as many as 9 or more seats on the same flights.
Find Flights For Me flags great award availability between the U.S. and Istanbul on Turkish Airways that can be booked using United miles, and with miles in other Star Alliance frequent flyer programs. You can use this to get to much of the world, since Turkish flies to more countries than any other airline. This availability is best from East Coast and Central U.S. gateways (more so than West Coast) and is focused on winter – from January and running into the beginning of April. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Find Flights For Me | Award Flight Deals (@findflightsforme) The United Airlines MileagePlus award calendar shows that every day in January has at least two business class awards between New York and Istanbul, and in some cases more seats than that.…
I actually do not think this pricing is a mistake. LifeMiles is aggressive in managing its pricing. There are some awards you’ll find with other Star Alliance frequent flyer programs that LifeMiles won’t show availability for. That’s intentional. When an award is too expensive for their pricing, LifeMiles doesn’t let you book it. But they also drop their pricing below award chart pricing with some regularity and this too has been intentional.
Air France KLM’s Flying Blue program has made award space wide open across the Pond for nearly all of their transatlantic routes, starting this summer (when space has been scarce!) and through the end of their schedule.
Right now there’s exceptional availability in both business and first class between New York JFK and Hong Kong between January and March 8th, which you can use to connect onward in Asia.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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