Saver awards to Europe
Sep 30, 2012, 2:38 pm
#1
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Saver awards to Europe
I need to fly from MIA (but can position to virtually any point in the US) to Brussels (but will be happy with CDG, LHR, AMS, FRA) on January 3-5. There was a very nice option with SQ+LH from NYC, but unfortunately it is gone.
Given your experience, how are my chances that 30000 miles saver award would open up in near future? Or once it is gone, it is gone?
Thank you for your input!
Given your experience, how are my chances that 30000 miles saver award would open up in near future? Or once it is gone, it is gone?
Thank you for your input!
Sep 30, 2012, 3:26 pm
#2
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 208
I was looking at a BF Saver Award to Brussels from EWR in December. It doesn't matter what day I check there are no saver award travel in BF! Just for the hell of it I even checked other months and it's the same thing... I only find saver awards for coach and even then it's not every day 
Sep 30, 2012, 5:52 pm
#3
Join Date: Jun 2006
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I need to fly from MIA (but can position to virtually any point in the US) to Brussels (but will be happy with CDG, LHR, AMS, FRA) on January 3-5. There was a very nice option with SQ+LH from NYC, but unfortunately it is gone.
Given your experience, how are my chances that 30000 miles saver award would open up in near future? Or once it is gone, it is gone?
Thank you for your input!
Given your experience, how are my chances that 30000 miles saver award would open up in near future? Or once it is gone, it is gone?
Thank you for your input!
I would say that you just need to keep looking; The first week of January is high season - right after New Year - but I find that availability changes.
Look frequently and don't limit to the East coast, include some midwest or southern cities;
I just checked and found FLL-Berlin on 1/5/13 but in Business for 50K
May be worth spending another 20K if you have it;
Last edited by keisari; Sep 30, 2012 at 5:58 pm Reason: new information
Sep 30, 2012, 7:03 pm
#4
Join Date: Mar 2003
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This is a tough one, I would not count on anything opening up so you'll have to be creative. TK has IAD-IST open on 1/3 and 1/4, it's a bit out of the way but you can get to FRA non-stop or to BRU with a connection on LH. This goes 40% over MPM so it may not work (CO used to be lenient and it's the same engine; US might also work if you have their miles) . If you can only do IAD-IST then RT IST-BRU is about $250. And AC has YUL-BRU on 1/2 and 1/6.
Oct 1, 2012, 12:30 am
#5
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This is a tough one, I would not count on anything opening up so you'll have to be creative. TK has IAD-IST open on 1/3 and 1/4, it's a bit out of the way but you can get to FRA non-stop or to BRU with a connection on LH. This goes 40% over MPM so it may not work (CO used to be lenient and it's the same engine; US might also work if you have their miles) . If you can only do IAD-IST then RT IST-BRU is about $250. And AC has YUL-BRU on 1/2 and 1/6.
Oct 1, 2012, 7:15 am
#6
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Oklahoma
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I looked around and the best spot I could find for space going to Europe was Air Canada departing YUL.
They actually have a few seats open on the Jan 2nd direct flight but I was not able to find a way to connect from MIA to YUL. And on the 3rd they have a few seats going to CDG.
Good luck,
Nissan
They actually have a few seats open on the Jan 2nd direct flight but I was not able to find a way to connect from MIA to YUL. And on the 3rd they have a few seats going to CDG.
Good luck,
Nissan
Oct 1, 2012, 12:15 pm
#7
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Thank you, all, for your comments. Particular thanks goes to robbert for having suggested to explore TK as an option. At the end, I booked IAD-IST-FRA-BRU for a mere of 42 USD.
Oct 1, 2012, 2:18 pm
#8
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Thank you, I'm glad that worked out for you. And good to know that we can still fly many more miles than actually 'allowed' for the city pair.
Nov 6, 2012, 12:12 pm
#9
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Lots of Summer BF and GF Saver availability SFO-LHR
This morning I accidentally searched for 8(!) award tickets SFO-LHR and the calendar showed green for pretty much all of July and August in both directions. I booked 3 saver tickets on non-stops in BF SFO-LHR and GF LHR-SFO. If you are looking for BF or GF seats for the summer, you might want to jump on this. I've been looking off and on for the past two months and this is a real change.
Last edited by lexdevil; Nov 6, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Nov 6, 2012, 12:26 pm
#11
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Seems true of FRA. My guess is lots of summer Europe availability now. The 8 seats thing is baffling. Do they ever release that many award seats at a time? Any chance this is an error?