Hi everyone, I have been trying to find flights using the Ana tool that is linked off this site to find a flight for myself to visit my girlfriend who is working in the USA at the min.

For the last two months I have been trying to find flights from London Heathrow / Gatwick or Manchester to ANY of the Florida airports and have had virtually no luck at all. I am trying to fly out around the 27th July give or take a couple of days and coming back on 1st Sep give or take a couple of days but cant seem to find a thing. I have enough points to cover the return flight which makes it even more annoying.

I rang up BMI Diamond Club a month or so ago and was told to ring back every week as apparently flights dont get released on some airlines until last min but I have tried and just cant seem to find anything. I have even tried looking for flights for next week and the week after just to see if this case is true but still nothing comes up.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong ?, all the airlines that fly to the USA cant all be fully booked can they ?.

should be lots of space LHR-YYZ-MCO/FLL/MIA, have you tried that routing?

Since you're in bmi's Diamond Club, if / when you do find availability, you should make your booking as two one-way trips. This gives you much greater flexibility if you should need to make any changes later.

cheers,

Henry

Ok I will see if I can get it as two singles then, thanks for that , By the way which airports are FLL and YYZ ?, I know the other codes

YYZ = Toronto Pearson International
FLL = Fort Lauderdale (just north of Miami and a good choice away from the masses of MIA, no lounges though for *G

Just tried that routing and no luck

what does a O mean in a colourless white box ?.
if I do
London(LHR) Toronto(YYZ) Fort Lauderdale
then
Fort Lauderdale Toronto(YYZ) London(LHR)

leaving the 27th July coming Back 1st Sep, I get a O in economy but no gold bit on the background, just white.

ahh just realized that the first leg from London to Canada is unavailable, seems you cant fly to the USA at all as you pick any London to any Florida airport and nothing comes up, even next week

It's easier to break the journey up in to legs - that way you'll only look for the journey you want.

So search for LHR-YYZ and then YYZ-MIA (or elsewhere).

I'd actually suggest checking for FRA-MIA and ZRH-MIA. However Swiss doesn't show on ANA, but I can help you find this from ExpertFlyer. For instance, on the 1st September there is plenty of availablity on Swiss for MIA-ZRH.

I can't find anything for the outbound on Swiss though

rang up diamond club and they said to use http://www.staralliance.com
to look for availability and said that I could check for qualifying flights using that too, but I cant seem to find anything that says about using star alliance miles, only checking routes where the star alliance airlines routes.....

this is what I have found too, there is plenty of availability for inbound flights but virtually none for outbound.

Have you got lots of miles? LH has first class availability on 27th July for FRA-MIA...

LH have economy seats open for 23rd July FRA-MIA

I only have 45,600 so only enough for economy I think, which is a bit of a pain.

Enough for cash+miles for business class - not that I could find any

Im in the uk tho, Frankfurt is four hours the wrong way and back