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July 23, 2019

Thai Airways Award Availability is Back

Earlier this year nearly all Thai Airways long-haul award availability disappeared. Now it seems most of that availability is back, especially on the Paris (CDG) - Bangkok (BKK) route. There’s lots of availability, including both Business and First during the next couple of months.

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July 22, 2019

Adding Ability to "Import" Journeys

Copying/exporting journeys has been available in AwardFares for a long time. To do so, simply click “Copy” and you’ll receive a text description of your journey:

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July 18, 2019

Launching the New AwardFares

During the last few months we’ve been working very hard on a completely new version of AwardFares with many new features and improvements. Today we’re launching the new version to everyone together with a new Diamond tier.

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July 12, 2019

Wide-Open Award Space on EVA's New Milan (MXP) Route

On Feburary 18 EVA Air launches their new European route to Milan (MXP):

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July 10, 2019

First Award Availability to Beijing Daxing (PKX)

With the opening of Beijing Daxing airport (PKX) LOT Polish Airlines is the first Star Alliance member offering award availability to the new airport. Starting on October 28 they will be moving 4 of their 7 weekly flights from Beijing Capital (PEK) to Beijing Daxing (PKX).

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July 1, 2019

Lufthansa First Class Routes (July 2019)

Lufthansa currently offers First Class with 3 different aircraft types on 34 routes (22 from Frankfurt and 12 from Munich). Most routes are quite consistent, but some changes do occur so it can be difficult to keep track them. Here's an updated list of all routes as of July, 2019.
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June 22, 2019

Lufthansa Short Haul Business Class Review

I was recently offered a surprise operational upgrade on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Lisbon. This gave me a great opportunity to try out Lufthansa’s short haul business class. Since this was a surprise upgrade, and the business class part of the cabin is the same as the economy class, the review will be a bit shorter than usual.

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May 3, 2019

Review of Air New Zealand Business Auckland to Taipei (787-9)

After flying economy to New Zealand I decided it was worth to spend some miles on a business class flight back to Europe. With some luck I managed to find a routing via Taipei and Paris. The first leg of the journey from Auckland to Taipei was an Air New Zealand flight in a 787-9 Dreamliner in Business Premier.

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April 9, 2019

Review of Qatar Airways Economy Copenhagen to Auckland (777-300ER & 777-200LR)

This was my first time flying Qatar Airways and it was probably the longest economy flight I had ever taken. The trip consisted a 6 hour flight to Doha followed by a 16 hour flight to Auckland.

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February 14, 2019

Thai, Singapore, and TAP Awards are Back!

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been having issues fetching availability data for Thai Airways, Singapore Airlines, and TAP. However, after some hard work, this is finally back. There are some limitations though described below.

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February 12, 2019

Review of Lufthansa Premium Eco to Hong Kong

I recently had the opportunity to try Lufthansa’s Premium Economy in their A380 between Munich and Hong Kong. This is a brief review of the flight (Both there an back in combination).

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January 10, 2019

ANA A380 Awards Now Available

Awards are now available on ANA’s new A380 service between Tokyo Narita (NRT) and Honolulu (HNL). Book while seats are available as they’ll probably disappear quickly!