American Opening Up Business Class Awards to Europe With No Fuel Surcharges

While I’m a big fan of American AAdvantage, that’s mostly for their generous top tier elite program and using their miles for awards on their airline partners. American’s revenue management has been notoriously stingy about releasing seats for premium cabin international travel — over the past three years to Europe, and over the past 18 months or so even to Latin America and Asia. What’s more, because American doesn’t have as many partners across the Atlantic as Star Alliance airlines do, that leaves few options. Their primary partner across the Atlantic is British Airways, and awards on BA incur fuel surcharges. You can come out of pocket an extra $800 or so on top of taxes and fees when redeeming miles to travel on BA. I usually find myself looking for business class awards on…

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