Summertime flights to Israel are always pricey and saver awards can be hard to find.
That’s why it’s notable that United has amazing coach saver award availability nonstop from Newark to Tel Aviv. All dates from July 7th through August 1 and many dates in August and September also have nonstop coach saver award space in coach.
There’s even 8 business class saver awards from Newark to Tel Aviv on 7/11 and 4 business class saver awards on 7/17. However I’m sure those will go quickly.
Unfortunately, flights from Tel Aviv to Newark are much trickier, but there is some availability. There’s also 7 business class saver awards from Tel Aviv to Newark on July 2 and 6 business class saver awards on July 7. And there’s 6 business class saver awards from Tel Aviv to San Francisco on 7/2.
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.
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 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 thay via “Plan B”.
-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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What? No non-stops from CLE? =D
does MR transfer to United as well?
@Anonymous: Nevermind, I didn’t read closely enough.
“There’s even 8 business class saver awards from Newark to Tel Aviv on 7/11” Prime Day? 😉
hmm did not get this text?
Can this be booked using LH miles or will they charge surcharges?
Aegean is strict that the name on the Aegean account must match the Starwood account. I did not know and transferred a lot starpoints into someone else’s account and could not get back the points. Aegean would not credit my friend but they did not return it to SPG. Basically, they stole my points. I tried asking them to credit the points to my Aegean account, but they did not….
@Aegean:
Did you speak to an SPG supervisor?
Thanx Dan. A while ago I had sent an email to SPG, and they said that there is nothing they could do because the points were transferred to Aegean. I called SPG and asked for a supervisor and explained the situation. 2 days later, they credited back all 100k SPG points.
can i transfer chase or amex to aegean if yes what is the transfer ratio