Originally Posted by
Ragnarok
JAL is your best bet. They do tend to release close in availability. 10 out of the next 14 days still have Business awards for NYC-TYO. Those are bookable with AA and AS miles.
Originally Posted by
guv1976
This SAN-TYO itinerary is available in FIRST Class on October 14 for 80K AA miles. Not a great routing (SAN-SJC-LAX-TYO), but it is First Class on JL
The AS booking engine seems to be down at the moment, so I cannot tell if the award is also available with AS miles.
Annoyingly I'm all out of AA miles and don't have enough time to earn them for this trip but good to know for the future re: AA.
Re: Alaska, I have enough miles, so I think its going to be my best bet to stalk the award search and book the flight 10-14 days out. I saw a JAL flight on AS for 60k miles + $19 in taxes from SEA-NRT on Sept. 2. I can book the flight last minute so its no problem for me. Thanks all for the help!