Originally Posted by sfosenkid
I want to spend some of my Alaska miles and I am considering booking an award flight on BA in Business Class to Europe.
What do you recommend -- how far in advance should one book it to have a realistic chance of availability of the requested dates?
Is there some way online to check what availability looks like at certain dates? Or do I have to call the Award Reservation # ?
Thanks.
I took a trip last March, there were two of us and we tried for Business, but ended up booking into First. There was availability from SEA to LHR, but nothing coming back in Business. We made the reservation at the end of December or the first part of January and checked several dates coming back. The problem is no matter where you go in Europe on BA all of the flights go through LHR, we also checked coming back via YVR and SFO.
This was my first international trip in First, it was well worth the extra 35K miles over business, if you have them.