[Deal Honored With Upgrade To Nonstop; Readers Using 15K Miles For Business Class Upgrades!] Fly American/OneWorld/El Al Premium Economy From Tel Aviv To US Cities From $219 One-Way Or $395 Round-Trip!

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Update, 8/17: DDF member lazertek reports that when American rebooked him onto a nonstop flight, they did so in fare class P. When he inquired about what it would cost for an upgrade to business class, he was told it would be 25K miles plus a $350 copay. He called back and asked for his fare class to be restored to W as it originally was on the connecting flight and American did that for him. He then was able to waitlist for business class for just 15K miles with no copay as that is a full fare class. He was upgraded at the gate to business class nonstop from Tel Aviv to JFK!

Update, 6/19: American has been calling people to rebook them onto nonstop flights in premium economy, making this deal even better than it appeared. Congrats to everyone who got in on it!

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Update, 5/25: This deal ended last night, but American appears to be honoring this fare and the nonstop fare. Additionally, nearly all tickets sold are fully refundable, so you can decide to cancel until the time of departure.

Readers and commenters have also noted that they have been able to change their return date without any any difference in fare!

You can credit an American W class premium economy ticket to BA Avios (which allows family pooling) and earn 150% of the miles flown (at least 17K Avios), or you can credit to Alaska and earn 110% of the miles flown, plus any applicable elite bonuses.

Update, 5/24 at 11:20pm: DEAD!


Originally posted on 5/24 at 9:45pm:

OneWorld carriers and El Al have premium economy flights from Tel Aviv to several US cities, such as NYC, Chicago, Honolulu, LA, Miami, and more for just $219 one-way or $395 round-trip!

A connection appears to be required.

This fare is only valid for flights originating in Tel Aviv. It won’t work for flights originating in the US.

You can book this AA’s Israel site here, or via Momondo, or Israeli booking sites. You can search for TLV to NYC to pull up this fare.

I found many valid dates from now through the end of scheduling next year.

Sample valid date: July 5-12

Post what dates and prices you find!

HT: yandmk


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170 Comments On "[Deal Honored With Upgrade To Nonstop; Readers Using 15K Miles For Business Class Upgrades!] Fly American/OneWorld/El Al Premium Economy From Tel Aviv To US Cities From $219 One-Way Or $395 Round-Trip!"

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shmoe joe

is it cancelable?

Est

What is the cheapest one way to get to Israel if I would use this for the way back?

har

flying blue

Kyle

Anything to be aware of regarding Covid rules in these connections such as vax requirements? Wldnt want to get stuck mid transit

Ailie

What is cancellation on these? Do we have 24 hours?

4yourinfo

Israelis all sleeping..

teyht

Yeah, same thought here

Avi

What happens if I miss the first leg of a Round trip?

Dav ?

Dan which of those airlines offer the best premium economy product?

Joe

Im pretty sure you forfeit the rest of the trip

Lea

I see for $257 .

mike

will these be honored

Naftali

Doesnā€™t work for me

har

make sure youre on aa.com, israel as your country

Momo

Did anyone managed to book

Lea

I didn’t book . But I see dates for $270 one way

Dave

Tried several times a roundtrip starting out of TLV and it didnt get me to ticketing. Ended up working for one way. Youre the best Dan!

momo

on what website ?

David

In Israel aa site that Dan posted

teyht

available skiplagged and oldmatrix.itasoftware.com

Joe

Dan I planned to fly business with points. How is premium economy compared to standard economic? Is it like a big difference in comfort?

mike

it says flexible premium economy refundable, what does that mean ?

Sol

Can’t decide with one to go for ??? Elal ? Iberia ? British ?? Anyone with any tips which would be best ?

Savta

How do you book for next year Paysach it seems to far in advance

har

If youre most likely going, its worth the loss of 200 if you dont

Nonstoptravel101

Booked one way on BA for $260

BA not letting me choose seats? Makes sense?

LY

YOU NEED STATUS TO SELECT FOR FREE

CR

Just booked (through Israel AA site) for my son returning from yeshiva July 11- Aug 23 to EWR for $452 R/T Premium Economy! Was ticketed immedietly.

goodyid

Booked but wasn’t ticketed yet

Naftali

Do I have 24 hours to cancel if I book via Momondo

joel

Something went wrong.
We are sorry for the inconvenience, we encountered an error processing your request.

The fare for the flights you have selected is no longer available.

Please contact Reservations for assistance with making a new booking and quote ā€œ15012ā€.

American Airlines apologises for any inconvenience this may have caused. (15012 – 421)

anon

keep trying, it went through for me eventually

Moshe

having the same issue when I try booking one way from TEL AVIV for January 4, 2023

Abe

Same here. Will they honor?

Nir

Just bought one, for $266 with BA.
Thank you, Dan!

Sol

Thru AA Isreal site ?

a

Something went wrong.
We are sorry for the inconvenience, we encountered an error processing your request.

The fare for the flights you have selected is no longer available.

Please contact Reservations for assistance with making a new booking and quote ā€œ15012ā€.

American Airlines apologises for any inconvenience this may have caused. (15012 – 421)

Stacy Goldstein

I tried several
Timeā€™s and said fair not available once at the payment page.

teyht

Thats not fare

#Never Fly Lufthansa

same here

Rebecca

I am trying to book NYC=>TLV roundtrip for succos for me my husband and 5 kids. This isn’t working…. Just kidding

Louis

What dates did you find?

Yuv

I had a one way to TLV on Delta for rosh hashana and just booked a one way back to NYC before Kippur with a stop in LHR for $266 PREMIUM. I used google flights and booked via the AA website. Perfect timing – Thanks Dan!

Yarden

Dead, says fare is not available anymore as I am about to pay

Dov

What is the “Israel AA site”?

teyht

dd has a link in the post. click it

David

Dan posted link above

Md

How do you book with points?

Avi

Just booked 3 tix for my parents and brother, my mom sent me her dates a few hours ago so would be amazing if they are honored, June 16-27 paid $477.
Ty and letā€™s hope they honored

Avi

IF THE AIRLINE OF UR CHOICE DOSENT WORK TRY A DIFF AIRLINE, (I tried one with BA and got an Error switched airlines and it worked)

S

Which airline did you switch to?
Which airline are working?

Bee

Booked 2 in August, 270 premium economy with stop in BCN.

AG

Has anyone been able to book sucessfully? It’s getting all the way to the end and saying the flight isn’t available.

Dave

try one way. working better than round trip

AG

I have been! What airline worked for you?

Canadian

Oh wow thanks dan! Booked for the day after chanukah back, now get me a deal to get over there..

Joshua moskowitz

@dan I booked with chase travel using my chase points a direct flight on AA in premium economy flexible for 23,000 points. It says refundable does that mean I can cancel and get a full refund at any time ? If not what does it mean thank you

@Dan

Dead

Freedman Eli

Just booked tlv to yul $214 one way

Lizey

Just book way back for 6 for oct 19 after YT
Total $1582

Ari

Booked for the day after yom kippur $250 Premium. Will now book with points the way there!
Thank you

cd

just booked tlv -nyc premium economy $457. Thanks Dan

cd

round trip

Moshe Katz

Thanks. Keep in mind phl

KSMH

Booked in PE OW 4Pax at 350+

ME17

I found tlv to ord $438 round trip October- ty

Yitz Weiss

Got direct flights, prem econ from TLV-JFK on 1/2 for $356 each! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

boston_guy

yes got it to work for gap year student – pesach back home in usa. got premium economy one way. BA thru London, booked on AA israel site

Avi

Thanks Dan
Booked PE on BA. $467.
Any chance these will be canceled?

Sol

AA site now only showing business class pricing ??

Sol

AA does now show me pricing anymore besides business class . Anyone else ?

can

dead?

Eli

yes dead

#Never Fly Lufthansa

Dead. Prices just jumped up drastically

Sol

It’s still possible to book on AA us site for $566 one way

dan fan

thanks booked my way back 250 with 1 hour stop

Chaim

Thanks! I just booked R/T TLV-Chicago using this offer.
I canceled my original flight and was able to pay with the credits with the help of an AA rep (couldn’t use the credits for that price online), and I have $700 credits left over.

Dov

I booked elal July 27 to Aug 29 for 459 on aa thank you Dan

David

Thanks Dan! Managed to find a routing where the transatlantic flight even had AA SWU availability! Score! Now the question is if there is any way possible to upgrade the El Al segment

Dave

Booked from tlv to jfk premium economy for $460 thank you Dan

Moshe R

Thanks Dan, I got 8 tickets for family members to come to my sons wedding roundtrip for $416 each and another 4 tickets for a one way for my family..

STM

Is there still a chance this will become alive again?

Momo

Hood news!
After chatting with AA online I confirmed that you can cancel these flights up to 14 days from booking, for 100 ILS ($30)

Thank you for your patience, Moshe! I have contacted Resolutions team as well and this is the information I have confirmed.
We have a specific policy about Israel Refund. This is for ticket refunds according to the Israeli Consumer Protection Law (5741-1981). It is showing that Refund is requested in writing within 14 days of the purchase date, but no less than 7 business days before the departure date of the first flight, A cancellation fee applies

5% of the ticket’s price or ILS currency 100, whichever is lower, Refund will be processed to original form of payment (FOP), then Customer needs to access prefunds.aa.com.

LY

$235 BA ON JULY 26 PREMIUM 1 WAY

Yochai

Any risk in calling them now?

Barry

Cheapest price I am seeing is $2,200 round trip!!

Moshe Katz

Will this be honored ?

El

Dead??

Yochai

Long

SS

How can I tell if my reservation is completely refundable up to departure? Seems certain bookings are.

Enrique

Congrats to everyone that got in on this deal! Is it possible to upgrade premium economy to business using points? How would one check if there is upgrade availability before purchasing? TIA

Avi

Truly Amazing,

I was able today to make a change in the reservation, changed the return flight to a day earlier at no addition cost.

flyingace

Who’d you book with? Who’d you contact to change date?

Avi

I booked with AA directly, contacted AA, was able to change a British Airways ticket.

flyingace

Nice!

Yossi

I had a reservation that I pit on hold & was going to pay in the morning , when I went to pay it was cancelled , do I have any recourse ?

JBLA

How do you possibly get to earning 34,000 Avios? My calculations are half that.

dovid

can you be more clear to what you mean with american “Appears ” and how you get to 34,00 miles

Anonymous

How can you tell if your ticket is fully refundable or not?

layah

can you please help me, trying to book but can’t seem to find anything under 219$ + 80k points. per ticket aug 9-24

Alex

Do you think the free changes allow for a different airport ( a different stopover location) and date change?

kim

I tried making a change, was told is was a mistake and would be honored but no changes. Dan, are you saying free changes based on comments here or something I can do to make a change?

Free changes!

“WHEN THERE ARE NO CHANGES TO THE FIRST FARE
COMPONENT BUT OTHER FARE COMPONENTS ARE CHANGED
THE ITINERARY MUST BE REPRICED USING HISTORICAL
FARES IN EFFECT ON THE PREVIOUS TICKETING DATE OR
CURRENT FARES IN EFFECT ON THE DATE OF TICKET
REISSUE WHICHEVER IS LOWER.”

kim

yeah but translate this. i booked a one way. i can change to any day without a fare increase?

Hoping

I have the question. Any been successful doing that ?

Israeli

From what was posted on here, and just by reading the comments it seems that customers have been able to change the return leg only on a return flight. Hence if you have a one way it wouldn’t work.
But why don’t you call American and find out for yourself…

yossig

My first leg is TLV-FCO on LY booking Code Y.

Would it still be refundable?

Sol

How about to credit the miles to American direct how much do we get ?

Chaim

I assume 1:1

trying to get tickets

try to get tickets fron june 13 tlv to nyc , how can u still book?

Eli

I try at AA Israel. And it’s not this price.
I like to get some different websites. Please

Israeli

Daniel, I have no words!

I’m an Israeli and travel to USA couple times a year. I’m in USA at the moment and was awake and manage to take good advantage of this deal. Thank you Daniel, I booked 4 round trips for the next couple of months.
Most on BA Metal (besides a few, connect on AA but all route through London so as to maximise TP)
4 return flights, will get me BA Gold + some 84k+/- (once you reckon the bonuses for Bronze, Silver etc.)

With the current value of BA avios, it’ll almost half the price of the ticket, as you’ll be getting close to $200 worth. Great deal, so glad they are honouring.

Thank you again Daniel

Moshe R

Anyone have any tips about changes – every change I try is $3k per ticket!

someone

I dunno. Got out of bed at 2:30 am to grab this deal, but am only seeing outrageous fares.

avrumi

Thanks for the heads-up.

I cancelled my kid’s mileage ticket (25k flying blue miles + $150 in fees & taxes) and bought a $270 premium economy with 2 free checked bags instead from TLV-BCN-ORD (Y for 1st leg and W for 2nd leg).

What i dont understand is how i can earn 17K avios by crediting my ticket to BA (or to Alaska and earn 110% of the miles flown)?

Sky King

Trying to figure out what an EXP with AA would earn on TLV-LHR-CLT-PHX one way and if I should credit to AA or do BA.

Aay B.

2 one-way premium economy tickets (THANKS DAN!) tlv-nyc with LHR stop (1st leg BA – 2nd leg AA). They’re both W class fare.
Really want to change it to TLV-NYC direct (which I see available for that date). Tried chatting with an AA agent and was told i can change but it’s gonna cost me $3700…
is it the “with-stop” to “direct” that’s giving them the excuse to charge this 1000% upcharge, or is it “BA-AA” to “AA only” (or is it a simple YMMV/HUCA kind of thing)?

Yochai

Not sure either.
It appears that only the return leg is changeable.
Iā€™m trying to change my return with no success. Maybe because itā€™s a combination of Economy and PE?
On another note, based on peoples comments here maybe Dan should consider new fonts/design for the word DEAD. This was written on the post at 11:30 EST on 5/24, yet it seems like lots of readers are still trying.

Moshe Katz

Where am I best off crediting miles NYC-MAD (Y) MAD-JFK (W) we are a family of 7

Israeli

BA. Open household account if you don’t have already.

avrumi

tried changing dates and no go. wanted fare difference of $3700.

Aay B.

One way?

avrumi

yes

Aay B.

Exact same situation here..
3700 is what I got too

Aay B.

I haven’t received a phone call or email about rebooking onto a direct (I booked a one way for 2 travelers TLV-NYC with stop in LHR so first leg is BA).
Should I call in?

Canadian

Same here šŸ™ , I did book one way and regular coach economy though, would this matter?

Yohanan

Is it still up??

Aay B.

No. This is for those who booked back then

LY

I believe only trips with a leg on LY got a call. I have on BA no call. A friend of mine with 1 leg on LY had that changed to direct

Yaakov

If you get a call to re-book direct, kindly ask for a number to call in for others and post it here please šŸ™‚ (have an LY segment)

Canadian

Any way to get them to change a booking to be able to change online vs. calling in? And why are certain tickets still that way in 2022

Yitzy

Following
I called AA and was told the change would cost 4k per person

Ruchy

Listen to this hillarious one. I booked this deal TLV-LHR-TLV economy one way on brittish. After Dan posted about PPL being offered to switch to nonstop i reached out AA on the phone, where they told me this change will cost me 2K, said thanks but no thanks.

Next day i log in to BA and i see a confirmed added leg to my booking of a nonstop flight tlv-JFK! i right away called BA to resend me the confirmation in a email (Cuz’ “american only sent me a hebrew email…”) and sure enough that is black & white on the confirmation. AA only shows the original itirinary.

My questions are , 1) is there any way to get AA to honor this based on a BA email? 2) How do i go about having them split the itirinary so i can use just the last part of the booking?

(Here is the BA Itinerary
BA0162
BRITISH AIRWAYS | WORLD TRAVELLER | Confirmed
** Dec 2022
06:20
TEL AVIV
Terminal 3
** Dec 2022
09:45
HEATHROW (LONDON)
Terminal 5
BA0185
BRITISH AIRWAYS | WORLD TRAVELLER | Confirmed
** Dec 2022
10:45
HEATHROW (LONDON)
Terminal 5
** Dec 2022
13:55
NEWARK (NEW YORK)
Terminal B
AA0145
AMERICAN AIRLINES | ECONOMY | Confirmed
** Dec 2022
00:45
TEL AVIV
Terminal 3
** Dec 2022
06:20
JOHN F KENNEDY (NEW YORK)
Terminal 8)

(Here is the AA itinerary
Carrier Flight Number Departing Arriving Booking
Code
City Date & Time City Date & Time
carrier
American 7026 Tel Aviv TUE **DEC
6:20 AM London Heathrow TUE **DEC
9:45 AM Y
OPERATED BY BRITISH AIRWAYS /BA 0162Y/******
*** *** FF#: ****** Coach Meals
carrier
American 6944 London Heathrow TUE **DEC
10:45 AM Newark TUE **DEC
1:55 PM Y
OPERATED BY BRITISH AIRWAYS /BA 0185Y/******
*** *** FF#: ****** Coach Meals)

Aay B.

I have the exact same thing going on.. after chatting with an agent and trying to change my TLV-LHR-NYC in premium economy to a TLV-NYC direct, the agent insisted that there’s no way this could be changed without a huge fare difference charged (not just a change fee).. suddenly another leg showed up… TLV-NYC direct but in regular economy (fare class Y instead of the original W). Funny part is that the TLV-LHR-NYC still shows on the booking and all 3 show “confirmed”… how’s that possible?!…

Canadian

On AA or on BA? Mine only shows on BA…
I’m planning to go over to an AA airport counter next time I have extra airport time to straighten this out, will keep everyone posted IYH

Aay B.

I always had it on BA (although it had a different date for the direct and the direct said cancelled). Last night I was on chat for 2 hours with an aa agent and he kept on insisting there’s no way to change free.. when I finally asked him to check how much I’d have to pay for the change, he said he’d reach out to the pricing Dept and that took about an hour.. in the mean time, while on hold on chat, a new leg popped up on “AA” under the same booking code, with the same date, “direct”.. and they all said confirmed but it didn’t allow me to select seats.. I screenshotted them all and also checked on BA and the date of the direct leg has changed to the same date as the original flight.. and it stated “confirmed”..
when the rep finally came back on chat with the price difference (which was roughly $2500 per passenger on a one way..) I said thanks but no.. ended the chat and then the direct TLV-NYC leg disappeared on both AA and BA..
i did screenshot and sent myself in email the itinerary from AA and also printed the full itinerary from BA..
Anything to do here or is it a lost cause?

Just trying to help my elderly FIL shouldn’t have to take the 7:10am (leaving hotel at 3am) TLV-LHR with 2 hour layover in LHR and then to NYC.. any suggestions here?

Ruchy

if anyone is curious heres an update:
my direct leg was removed from ba.com about a mid july, this monday i was rebooked to a much later connection lhr-ewr so i called up american on their isreal hotline and demanded they switch me back or put me on a direct flight to JFK which they agreed to. BH im now confirmed on a direct the next night to jfk, thanks DAN

Yitzy

I tried using the messaging feature on the app to change to nonstop based on a 5 minute flight schedule change and they did it for free although I was downgraded to reg economy.

yt

Call in- the overseas chat reps mess this up a lot. You’ll get back on to premium economy.

mother of kids

We booked these tickets for $450 each, and I wanted to add a lap infant now, and they charged me $396.57, because now the tickets are like $3,965…
Do you think there’s any way for us to get a cheaper price? because we’re basically paying as much as our ticket for the infant.
Thanx!

NEWCOMER

Huge thank you @dan! My son just flew home, premium economy (has a return ticket after summer) for way less then the price of a one way regular fare! He really enjoyed the flight and we enjoyed the price!

Yuv

I was also rebooked from a TLV-LHR-JFK to TLV-JFK direct for right after Yom Kippur šŸ™‚
Unfortunately I only have 4000k AA miles šŸ™

KSMH

Used 15k points and got upgraded!!!

Miri

Hi is this deal still available?

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