Originally Posted by
rajuabju
They've never flown a flight longer than an hour, and my mother in law has minor health issues, so I want to book them in a comfortable business class.
Here are my choices:
I have about 150k in BA miles I could use to book on AA.
I have about 200k Amex MR points I could transfer to any of the partners that fly LAX-JFK (or nearby airports).
The trip would be sometime in May 2012. Of my available choices (basically, any MR transfer partner), who offers the most comfortable J cabin?
Definitely consider Delta - they fly the 757-200 (75E) with true BusinessElite service on this transcontinental route. You can get roundtrip BE tickets for 80,000 miles each and I'm sure your in-laws would love the experience. Here's a
video on their BE product for this route.
It would take only around 100k MR points to transfer to DL SkyMiles with the current bonus offers. If you've never transferred into Delta SkyMiles, you can take advantage of the offer for first-timers where transferring 100k MR will give you 150k SkyMiles plus 25k MQM's which instantly gives you Silver Medallion status.