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Old Jul 17, 2025 | 11:27 am
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Snarky Answer: Yes, reasonable business awards are a thing of the past, no reason to keep looking (more for me!)

Real Answer: This question is asked so frequently it should be a Sticky thread at this point. I'll repeat my typical answer. If you are flexible with your dates, departure cities, and destinations, finding reasonable J or F awards is not that hard. The trick is to look when you actually don't need to travel anywhere. This regular research can provide insight to availability trends. To me at least, it seems that availability comes in waves. Like others have said, the current availability wave is DE, and if you don't mind splurging, QR. My last international trip 11 months ago I was able to find four RT J tickets on EI from an east coast city to DUB for 90k miles RT per ticket. That's what I call "reasonable".
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