Redeem TrueBlue points on JAL flights
Apr 23, 2025 | 10:01 am
#1
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Redeem TrueBlue points on JAL flights
Seemingly favorable redemptions.
Rates in economy, premium economy, business:
Hawaii to Japan HNL-HND 30,000 40,000 55,000
U.S./Canada West Coast to Japan SEA-NRT, LAX-KIX 39,000 49,000 64,000
U.S. East Coast to Japan JFK-HND 39,900 59,000 TBD
U.S. West Coast to Indian Subcontinent SFO-NRT-BLR 59,000 98,000 128,000
Europe to Southeast Asia CDG-HND-BKK 59,900 TBD TBD
Seeing availability the next few days from SFO to NRT at a pretty great price. Excellent value - doubtful it’ll last?
Some more info on Awardwallet https://awardwallet.com/blog/jetblue...d-redemptions/
Rates in economy, premium economy, business:
Hawaii to Japan HNL-HND 30,000 40,000 55,000
U.S./Canada West Coast to Japan SEA-NRT, LAX-KIX 39,000 49,000 64,000
U.S. East Coast to Japan JFK-HND 39,900 59,000 TBD
U.S. West Coast to Indian Subcontinent SFO-NRT-BLR 59,000 98,000 128,000
Europe to Southeast Asia CDG-HND-BKK 59,900 TBD TBD
Seeing availability the next few days from SFO to NRT at a pretty great price. Excellent value - doubtful it’ll last?
Some more info on Awardwallet https://awardwallet.com/blog/jetblue...d-redemptions/
Apr 23, 2025 | 4:52 pm
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Rates aren't terrible - premium/economy seem to be slightly more expensive than AA/less than AS on BOS-Tokyo
Going to be curious what availability looks like vs the other two over the next few months
Going to be curious what availability looks like vs the other two over the next few months
Apr 25, 2025 | 12:13 pm
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Seeing a serious ‘correction’ on point rates ex-west coast today, with 3 the points required. Party over?
Apr 25, 2025 | 1:04 pm
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Correction: that very high fare is actually in JAL F! I am not sure if that’s a good or bad deal all things considered. Definitely entirely separate availability compared to AA / AS.
Apr 25, 2025 | 1:05 pm
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Apr 25, 2025 | 1:12 pm
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Many reports of people already booking it. I am guessing it doesn’t pull from the same inventory?
Apr 25, 2025 | 1:16 pm
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Apr 25, 2025 | 1:26 pm
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checking JAL's own award space, it does not correspond to what jetblue is showing. Many dates in F show waitlist, so I'm doubtful about what jetblue displays, they can't have more availability than JAL offers their own members??
Apr 25, 2025 | 1:27 pm
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I wish I could do a dummy booking for you but I am short a few miles and I find the value to be suboptimal at that rate. I have an 80k AA award for JAL F...
Apr 25, 2025 | 1:31 pm
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ok I think what is happening is that jetblue displays "First" at 165K for LAX-HND for example but it must actually be for Business class, as JAL's own website does show availability in biz at 190K at some dates I checked in biz but not first
Apr 25, 2025 | 2:09 pm
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It's possible and has happened in other programs. I booked an award with United miles on an Air Canada-operated flight, that AC itself had no saver space in. And Aeroplan has in the past had access to SQ J that SQ itself did not. It's a strange world. Whether that's the case here, I don't know.
Apr 25, 2025 | 3:39 pm
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If anyone has datapoints for successful booking of JAL F or even biz for that matter for US west coast-TYO I'm interested. I'd love to be proven wrong that all that availability Jetblue is currently showing as First for 165K is actually biz.
thanks
thanks