Awards for June 2020
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2006
Programs: UA, AA, WN, JB, Hilton Honors, Starwood
Posts: 426
Awards for June 2020
Hi,
Lookng to book a business class ticket for both my husband and I using miles. We would like to fly business or first class from BOS to BCN. We have enough miles on our credit card to at least fly one way in this class of service. Should I book 335 days out, or wait? Seeing that it is for June of next year, I was thinking that these awards go fast. I am not sure if the awards are high at first, then decrease in a few days. Any insight would be great.
Thank you
ML
Lookng to book a business class ticket for both my husband and I using miles. We would like to fly business or first class from BOS to BCN. We have enough miles on our credit card to at least fly one way in this class of service. Should I book 335 days out, or wait? Seeing that it is for June of next year, I was thinking that these awards go fast. I am not sure if the awards are high at first, then decrease in a few days. Any insight would be great.
Thank you
ML
#2
Community Director Emerita
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Anywhere warm
Posts: 33,681
I book awards as soon as I can find them. I am almost always looking 11 months in advance. I start checking a few days in advance of the awards opening for the day I hope to travel. Hopefully, I have some flexibility so that if I see award seats a day earlier or a day later but not the day I wanted, I can book them. Award seats are often gone with a few days of them opening up. It is highly unpredictable as to whether or even if award seats become available again for that route.
Good luck!
Good luck!
#3
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Massachusetts, USA; AA Plat, DL GM and Flying Colonel; Bonvoy Platinum
Posts: 24,221
Award seats are not like prices: they never go down. (There are a few exceptions, when an airline runs special promotions to persuade people to give up some of their miles on flights that fewer people than expected are willing to pay for, but those are rare and tend to happen at the last minute.) Airlines allocate a small number of seats per flight at their lowest mileage requirement level and make others available only for more miles. If you know when you want to fly, get on the airline site on Day 1 and grab seats in the first, low-mileage allocation before someone else does. You snooze, you lose.
#5
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: MEL CHC
Posts: 20,923
Looking to book a business class ticket for both my husband and I using miles. We would like to fly business or first class from BOS to BCN. We have enough miles on our credit card to at least fly one way in this class of service. Should I book 335 days out, or wait? Seeing that it is for June of next year, I was thinking that these awards go fast. I am not sure if the awards are high at first, then decrease in a few days. Any insight would be great.
You may find that a cash price for one way is expensive.
For BCN also consider MAD and then train to BCN
There are recent posts in the AA forum on trying to get award USA - MAD/BCN
Great Circle Mapper
#6
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: BOS, BWI, DCA, IAD
Programs: American, Delta, JetBlue, United
Posts: 2,038
Hi,
Lookng to book a business class ticket for both my husband and I using miles. We would like to fly business or first class from BOS to BCN. We have enough miles on our credit card to at least fly one way in this class of service. Should I book 335 days out, or wait? Seeing that it is for June of next year, I was thinking that these awards go fast. I am not sure if the awards are high at first, then decrease in a few days. Any insight would be great.
Thank you
ML
Lookng to book a business class ticket for both my husband and I using miles. We would like to fly business or first class from BOS to BCN. We have enough miles on our credit card to at least fly one way in this class of service. Should I book 335 days out, or wait? Seeing that it is for June of next year, I was thinking that these awards go fast. I am not sure if the awards are high at first, then decrease in a few days. Any insight would be great.
Thank you
ML
#7
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2006
Programs: UA, AA, WN, JB, Hilton Honors, Starwood
Posts: 426
Thanks. We have enough miles for the two of us to fly one way business or RT economy. The miles are from a credit card that has several airlines associated with the miles. Glad to know about the extra surcharges.
#8
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Matre-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
Other cards essentially give you credits redeemable toward travel.
#10
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Not here; there!
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold
Posts: 29,366
On most international award itineraries, AA offers 24 hours to connect. You get up to 18 hours to connect on domestic (and U.S.-Canada) award itineraries..