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Old May 1, 2025 | 8:53 pm
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Originally Posted by wwtknoyb
Will be interesting to watch over the coming days and weeks, but it seems it was a good idea to book the flight tickets to China one and a half month in advance.
I've been using miles for most of my US-China plane tickets since COVID because cash fares are still much higher than they were in 2019 and earlier (so the return on miles is great). I usually book something (e.g PE or Y)
​​​​​a month in advance, but 100% of the time, I've been able to score 70k business class seats on my ideal flights within 3-5 days of departure.

For Europe, the calculus is different, of course, because you guys get cheap revenue fares.

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