Originally Posted by
bwaltens
Essentially, my wife and I will be flying to Japan from Austin from Feb 3-11. I have premium economy/economy awards booked.
But now I have the miles to get business awards.
I’ve never flown business long-haul and I don’t want to miss the opportunity.
It seems when I’ve looked the past few days, there has been some flights from various places that have a seat or two available at the 60k miles rate. But few and far between, and not on the dates I need.
I know I’ve read that this is common with JAL. But…is there any way I can be proactive on this? I’ve been checking obsessively. It seems like JAL awards aren’t available on Expertflyer, or I would set up alerts there.
Specifically looking to book from Austin to Tokyo on Feb 3 and ideally Osaka to Austin on Feb 11
Have you kept looking? Widespread ORDHND JL biz 60K available in Feb but starting on the 5th of YoY have minimal flexibility. Position to ord should be pretty cheap.
The return is plentiful HNDORD then as well, or all the way HNDSAT 2/10 or 2/12 among others. Just not the 11. SAT should be next to perfect for AUS- based.