Rare United Business Class Saver Award Space To/From Newark Or San Francisco And Tel Aviv

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United has excellent nonstop award availability between North America and Israel in coach, especially for United cardholders who have access to greatly expanded award availability.

However business class award space between North America and Tel Aviv is notoriously scarce. So it’s news when non-Shabbos dates have business class award space to/from Tel Aviv.

There is business saver award space from Newark to Tel Aviv on:

  • September 4 (8 saver award seats)

There is business saver award space from Tel Aviv to Newark on:

  • September 26 (At least 9 saver award seats)
  • September 27 (6 saver award seats)

There is business saver award space from San Francisco to Tel Aviv on:

  • September 24 (8 saver award seats)
  • December 31 (At least 9 saver award seats)

These business class seats include United’s newly launched Polaris business class service with Saks Fifth Avenue bedding and pillows. Smart travelers will also request a Saks Fifth Avenue mattress pad, gel cooled pillow, slippers, and pajamas, as those are not offered proactively by flight attendants.

Sample booking options:

-You can transfer miles from Chase Ultimate Rewards to United (1:1 ratio) instantly. United charges 42.5K one-way in coach or 70K one-way in business class for United flights to Israel. Awards can be cancelled for free within 24 hours. United never collects fuel surcharges. After 24 hours, non-elites will pay $75 to cancel awards more than 60 days before a flight or $125 within 60 days of a flight. Awards can be booked online.

You can also redeem 70K United miles for business class even when there is only coach available. Read this post for how to do that via “Plan B”.

Having a Chase United Explorer card greatly expands the saver award space that you can book. United.com only shows the lowest available award rate when you’re logged in, so a cardholder may see a 42.5K rate while a non-cardholder will see the 85K standard rate which will go up to 95K in November. Cardholders also have the ability to book the last seat available in any class with Standard/Everyday awards.

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-Air Canada charges 40K in coach or 82.5K in business class one-way. There are no fuel surcharges for United flights. Points transfer instantly (1:1 ratio) from AMEX. Transfers from Starwood (20K:25K ratio) can take 2-10 days. Awards can be booked online.

–Aegean charges a mere 30K miles in coach or 45K miles in business class one-way and you’ll need even fewer Starpoints than that thanks to the Starwood 20K:25K transfer ratio. Factoring in a 25% discount that’s effectively 24K Starpoints in coach or 36K Starpoints in business class one-way. They don’t charge fuel surcharges for United flights. Transfers from Starwood can take 2-10 days. You must call Aegean to book at +30-21-0626-1000

Singapore charges 37.5K in coach or 57.5K in business class one-way. There are no fuel surcharges for United awards. You can transfer points from AMEX, Chase, or Citi at a 1:1 ratio, but it will take a day or 2 for points to show up. Transfers from Starwood (20K:25K ratio) can take 2-10 days. You must call Singapore to book at 1-312-843-5333.

–ANA charges 65K miles in coach or 104K miles in business class round-trip, one-way awards aren’t available. There are no fuel surcharges for United awards. It can take 1-3 days to transfer points from AMEX to ANA (1:1 ratio) and transfers from Starwood to ANA (20K:25K ratio) can take 2-10 days. Awards can be booked online, though flights with connections may need to be booked over the phone.


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13 Comments On "Rare United Business Class Saver Award Space To/From Newark Or San Francisco And Tel Aviv"

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Iris Steinberg

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Shaul

You can’t cancel a revenue ticket without paying a fee.

Ilan pollak

For those the fly on Shabbat, there is also availability for the 12:15 PM flight out (at least there was a few hours ago)

Yaakov

Wow didn’t know that was an option

Ilan pollak

this Saturday, sorry

j

you think Monday will be availb for Thursday ? 🙂

Moshe Berger

Makes sense that its 175K miles each way on business?

MF

can you book throw ANA one way business one way couch for 84,500 miles?

United

I dont see availability TLV-EWR on 26 or 27 is it gone?

Franky G

Business award saver space available for tonight’s flight from Newark to tlv with Polaris Service for 70k miles 1 way.

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