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The Ultimate Mileage Award Ticket We Pan for Upgrade-Gold, Day-In, Day-Out and Just Discovered an Award That Even We Found Hard to Believe Matthew Bennett MARCH 2017 / P1 Matthew Bennett MatthewFirst BennettClass Flyer First Class Flyer VOL. 22 • NO. 3 • MARCH 2017 First Class Flyer Hot Ticket The Ultimate Mileage Award Ticket We pan for upgrade-gold, day-in, day-out and just discovered an award that even we found hard to believe. All day long here at FCF we sift and sort and dig and drag everywhere you can imagine, looking for the best value for our miles, points, and dollars. Time is money, and we save you the time and—let’s face it—the In this issue … drudgery of the search. The Ultimate Mileage Award Ticket ........1 Seemingly Unbelievable When, Truly, is the Best Time to Book Your Next European Vacation? ..................5 So on February 17 at around 3 p.m. (yes, it sounds like proud parents telling The JetBlue Blues Plus the Delta when the baby was born) one of my analysts found what I believe is Workaround ....................................................6 “The Ultimate Mileage Award.” Cathay Pacific Business Class Upgrades To tell you the truth, I sent my analyst back a couple of times to double- to Asia Save Up to $4,123, 54% ................7 check the data. Although seemingly too good to be true, it’s true, as Getting United’s Best International Seats confirmed through two bookings I made myself—one in Business Class on 85 Domestic Routes ...............................8 and one in First (see screenshots on next page). Belt and suspenders on this one. How Anyone Can Save Up to 82% in Cash or 43% in Miles on British Airways’ And the Winner Is… First Class Suite + “Where the Seats Are All Nippon Airways (ANA) Round-the-World (RTW) Award. It makes the Cheat Sheet” ................................................ 11 world your oyster. Open it. (Next month I’ll reveal my second favorite award.) New Lie-Flat Seats Plus Hard-to-Beat Business Class Fares What makes this mileage award really fly is that anyone with Amex to the South Pacific .................................... 13 Rewards or Starpoints can book it because ANA is a points-transfer partner with both. You’re free to skip over and stop where you want. But if Welcome to Oysterville you have a bucket list that needs checking, there is no In addition to getting up to eight stops around the better deal for you that I know of. globe, you can use this mileage award also to save miles Hidden in Plain Sight on standard long-haul, round-trip flights: The deal is easily overlooked (I did several times even • American travelers: Save 10,000 to 15,000 miles after I was given the web address), as you can see below. • Delta travelers: Save 35,000 to 55,000 miles Miss the button, miss the deal. (And please, can we keep this between ourselves? That’s why we refer to you as • United travelers: Save 10,000 to members. Make it public and ANA might rescind it!) 35,000 miles The hang-up that some people have about Round-the-World flights is that they sound so long. Yet the distance covered is often little more than many typical long-haul, round-trips. You don’t have to see the whole world. Matthew Bennett MARCH 2017 / P2 Matthew Bennett First Class Flyer First Class Flyer To put this deal in context, consider that Delta charges 140,000 miles for a simple Business Class round-trip between the U.S. and Europe, and 160,000 miles to Asia. Look at the chart carefully: You can fly around the world for 105,000 miles in Business Class—55,000 miles LESS than Delta charges to Asia—or 160,000 in First. (The kids can even fly coach for just 65,000.) Here’s a sample itinerary: New York > Frankfurt > Tokyo > Seoul > New York All that for up to 35,000 to 55,000 fewer miles than the cost for any one of those round-trips on American, Delta, or United! Just look to the right: Let’s Get Creative Haven’t been to the Taj Mahal? Add Delhi for 10,000 miles to the itinerary above. Want to scratch off the “Venice of the North” (St. Petersburg) from the list? That won’t even cost a dime more, on the Taj Mahal itinerary. All Nippon allows up to eight stops; some cost extra, some don’t. Sydney, for instance, can be had for 40,000 more miles because it requires veering far to the south. Matthew Bennett MARCH 2017 / P3 Matthew Bennett First Class Flyer First Class Flyer Sample Savings With The Ultimate Business Class Mileage Award Miles Flown Miles Cost Cost If Buying Points from Amex Normal RTW Fare SAVINGS Up to 18,000 105,000 $2,625 (plus $500+ award taxes) $7,414 / 70% 18,001 to 20,000 115,000 $2,875 (plus $500+ award taxes) $10,539 $7,164 / 68% 22,001 to 25,000 145,000 $3,625 (plus $500+ award taxes) $6,414 / 61% No Miles? No problem. meaning if I miss one day, there’s a good chance the seat is available on the day before or after. You know the routine by now: Just buy the miles. In fact, I needed to do that to make the booking above. Amex • With ANA, the downside is minimal, even if the seat sells them for just 2.5¢ each—a five-minute phone call falls through, as ANA miles are very often worth much to Membership Rewards è voila! more than miles on most other carriers, as they can be used for everyday round-trips at much better rates You can buy 105,000 points for just $2,625 and than United miles, for example. Or bank the miles transfer them to All Nippon for RTW itineraries of fewer and you’ll be ready to strike instantly the next time than 18,000 flight miles! you book the RTW steal. That’s $7,414 (70%) LESS than the lowest published • Together with the pricing chart, use the Circle Mapper Business Class fare with United. (More on RTW Business tool to help quickly calculate the distance and cost of Class fares here.) your various itinerary ideas. What Else to Know • Want to go nuts and use this fare to fly A380s? Go here or here for ideas. (Hint: ANA partners that operate You must book by phone (1-800-235-9262). • the plane include Asiana, Lufthansa, Singapore, and Thai.) I recommend using Aeroplan.com and United.com to get a sense of availability of the long-haul flights before • The rest of the relevant fine print can be found here. calling, because ANA’s website is less efficient. • For me, I find traveling East to West causes less jet lag. Short-haul flights are generally easy to find space. FCF Best Mileage Award • Transfers from Amex to ANA take two to four days, so there’s a chance your seat could disappear; here’s So, What’s Your Nominee for Best Mileage Award? how I think about this: Start giving it some thought because we’ll be announcing • I look for routes and dates with cluster availability, a new contest soon. What About Availability? So, although there’s no shortage of flights within the Star Alliance to Asia or Europe, availability is always Asiana generally has very good availability from Los a concern. Angeles and New York to Seoul, as does All Nippon That’s why this month, FCF’s Daily Alerts will focus to Tokyo. on “availability trends” that can help you piece together The best airlines to/from Europe, off the top of my world-class itineraries with ANA, fast. Keep an eye head, are Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa, and Turkish. out for them. Matthew Bennett MARCH 2017 / P4 Matthew Bennett First Class Flyer First Class Flyer High & Inside When, Truly, is the Best Time to Book Your Next European Vacation? Ever read an article about the best time to book a flight? Travel “gurus” often mention Thursday. “Midnight” is also In Brief popular. Or you’ll often see “right now,” making sure to pique your interest before then going on to give advice Air Canada: It will launch seasonal service such as Close to departure, prices are more likely to go between Montreal and Tel Aviv starting June 22, up (while others say down) … and … You want to start flying a three-cabin A330-300 with lie-flat looking for deals about six months before travel … and Business Class seats. Fares start at CAD$3,577 / … In general the cheapest tickets are available two to USD$2,686. More details here. three months before travel … and … But for peak holiday Air Canada will also start seasonal service from travel, the cheapest tickets are available earlier than Toronto (June 21 through Oct. 8) and Montreal that … and … You don’t want to buy 11 months or a year (June 23 through Oct. 9) to Reykjavik, Iceland. in advance. Both flights will use an A319 (Air Canada Rouge Perhaps it’s the Ides of March or when the sun’s shadow aircraft), which only has Premium Economy and is at 37 degrees at Stonehenge. Yes, it can be rather economy cabins. PE fares start at CAD$2,092 / arbitrary. But I think of the best time to book a flight USD$1,598. More details here. differently. The FCF Mindset First of all you have to remember that many of these articles are based on economy travel—which is very different from premium travel—and they probably cover every or many regions of the world. So Europe is lumped into the same box as Asia and the Pacific.
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