MileSAAver Award Ticket Availability: Business Class to London on American Airlines
There is a ton of available award space on American Airlines Business Class flights to London from several major hubs, including New York, Charlotte and Philadelphia. For 57,500 AA miles you can fly business class each way. A non-saver business class award ticket from JFK to LHR is 110,000 miles. Keep in mind that you must select American operated flights only in order to avoid fuel surcharges imposed on partner flights.
Award Ticket Availability
Availability is really wide-open in both directions until May and very sparse in the summer months. There’s also pretty decent availability in September.
The same ticket would set you back $1,577 at the bare minimum. As you can see below, the average is over $3,000 one-way. This means you’ll be redeeming your AA miles for 2.74 cents each or over 5 cents each on the high end. That’s a great value! The current sign-up bonus on several AAdvantage cards is 60k miles, making the bonus offer worth $1,644.
Conclusion
If you have some extra AA miles to burn, this is definitely a great use for them. You would be hard pressed to find better availability at a better price to London. Book fast if you’re interested!
HT: Frequent Miler
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On January 4, I booked 2 one-way saver level business awards for August 4, JFK-LHR-CPH on AA for the TATL and BA for the LHR-CPH leg. Taxes and fees were $25.40 each. Immediately got the 10% miles rebate from having the Barclays AAviator MC posted to my account. So, 105K for 2 tickets. I’m happy.
Still need a flight home from Stockholm later that month….probably looking at economy since it’s a daytime flight.
AA generally shows BA TATL flights, so this is a sale in that AA is offering their own metal without the horrendous fuel surcharge. Hopefully Sept. does show J class AA.
Thank you, Steve! For understanding the point of the post
Any AA flight on BA is NO bargain at all. You should know better. Worst blog i have seen in awhile.
I actually specifically stated not to use their partner airlines… “Keep in mind that you must select American operated flights only in order to avoid fuel surcharges imposed on partner flights.”
Byron the post says it is on AA metal.
NYC/PHL to LON, isn’t those like <7 hour flights? I have plenty if AA miles but I wonder if Biz is worth it for such short flight. I usually prefer my Biz flight to be 8+ hours to find it worth paying extra. Thoughts?
For me, anything over 3 hours is worth it LOL
I guess it depends on how easy it is for you to make up the miles when you spend them. I would also consider what other uses you are interested in for those specific miles, for me a 7 hour flight is a mandatory first/biz flight.
I live in PHL and am looking to fly to LHR on a Friday in late October and there is no 57.5 inventory on AA metal, it’s on BA so be careful of the fuel surcharges…$500 to go one way but that’s better than the $8,200 they’re presently charging for that flight. There are two AA flights to LHR on Friday evening’s but neither are showing as having available business award space 🙁
It’s early to book for end of October, definitely check again next month, but probably best in March to really start looking.