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Interesting factoid. Nearly 2 million have used Roame to redeem their points and miles.

Tokyo is by far the most popular non-US destination every single year. It represents 9% of all searches using the Roame award flight search engine.

So if you're ever wondering why it's so hard to find good redemptions for Tokyo or why those deals disappear so quickly, the reason is that competition is intense.

Are you surprised by any cities on this list?

I recently flew Air France’s new Business Class on the Boeing 777-300ER from San Francisco to Paris. Overall, I thought this was probably the best Business Class experience I’ve had on a Western airline. The cabin is beautiful, the food is excellent, and Air France has put together a very polished hard product.

I booked this as part of a longer SFO-CDG-BKK itinerary for 115,000 Flying Blue miles. Air France Business Class saver awards from SFO to CDG alone can go as low as 60,000 miles, but since I booked both SFO-CDG and CDG-BKK together, the combined itinerary came out to 115,000 miles.

To find availability, I had an alert set using an award flight search tool I built (called roame.travel). Air France saver space can be pretty sporadic, so alerts have been useful for catching these when they appear.

Before the flight, I stopped by the Air France lounge at SFO. Air France completely renovated and expanded the lounge in 2023. It reopened in June 2023 and is now around ~6,000 square feet with seating for ~117.

It’s still a relatively small lounge, but I was very impressed by the food. The quality was much higher than I expected for a US outstation lounge, with several proper hot dishes including baked salmon.

Once onboard, the new business cabin was beautiful. This particular 777 configuration has 60 Business Class seats in a 1-2-1 layout. Each seat has direct aisle access and its own sliding privacy door.

Air France uses its signature navy blue, luminous white and small touches of red throughout the cabin. There doesn’t seem to be a special name for the blue, but the combination is extremely classy. This is also one of those rare cabins that looks just as good as the promotional photos. I actually thought it looked slightly better in person.

The new seat is made by Safran and becomes an almost 2-meter / 79-inch fully flat bed. The seating area is around 19.6 inches between the armrests and roughly 23.6 inches across at its wider points, and with a 42 inches pitch

There’s also a 17.3-inch 4K anti-glare screen with Bluetooth, wireless charging, USB-A, USB-C and a universal power outlet. This aircraft also had Air France’s new Starlink Wi-Fi, and it was extremely fast. I ran a speed test during the flight and got around 34 Mbps.

The privacy door is a nice addition. It gives you very good privacy while seated, although the walls aren’t especially tall and the door itself felt a little thin. One small detail I really liked was the dedicated clothes hanger waiting at every Business Class seat.

There’s also an enclosed storage compartment next to the seat with a bright red interior and Air France’s illuminated winged seahorse logo.

Minor detail, but there was some grime/crumbs on the side table when I boarded. I asked the flight attendant for a towel so I could wipe it down myself. Not a huge issue, but surprising given how polished the rest of the cabin looked.

The amenity kit was fairly basic. Mine was a small rectangular textured fabric pouch, branded fairly subtly with Air France’s winged seahorse emblem. Inside were an eye mask, socks, earplugs, a toothbrush and toothpaste, plus two miniature Clarins products: Beauty Flash Balm and Moisturizing and Quenching Matte Gel.

The supplied noise-reducing headphones were also pretty basic. The entertainment system supports Bluetooth, so you can use your own headphones.

Air France also provides slippers, a pillow, blanket and its newer Sofitel MY BED mattress topper, which is a nice touch. However, I was a little surprised that Air France doesn’t provide pajamas in Business Class on an 11 hour flight. I’ve been spoiled by middle eastern and Taiwanese airlines providing pajamas on long-haul Business flights. Not a major issue, just something I noticed.

The food was one of the highlights. As you’d probably expect from Air France, the meal felt much more like a proper dining service than a single airline meal tray. Everything was served in separate courses with full plating.

The starter included bread, lobster bites, a green salad and a citrus salad with grapefruit, onion and bell pepper. For my main, I had duck with risotto and carrots. That was followed by a French cheese plate and then a very rich slice of chocolate cake for dessert.

Air France also takes its wine program pretty seriously. On this flight, they were serving Pommery Brut Royal Champagne, which was very good and fit the meal nicely.

There were also snacks available throughout the flight, including chocolates and other packaged snacks. The Gavottes Crêpes Fourrées were particularly good. I ate quite a few of those.

Service was very good throughout the flight.

Breakfast before landing was a mushroom omelet with a croissant, yogurt and fruit salad.

Fun side note. One of the cabin crew was learning Chinese and decided to practice her Mandarin with me. Her accent was actually quite good for only studying for 1 year and we ended up having a whole conversation in Mandarin. It was a fun interaction and the crew overall were friendly without being overly formal.

The seat was decently comfortable for sleeping. Air France’s mattress topper helps, and the bed is nearly 2 meters long. This was primarily a daytime flight for me, though, so I only slept a few hours.

Overall, Air France has a really solid business class product here, perhaps the best for a Western airline. The cabin is gorgeous, the seat is private and comfortable, the food is legitimately good, the service was friendly, and Starlink makes a huge difference if you want to work during the flight.

New Bilt rent day transfer bonus announced.

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I will be hosting a special live AMA with Jonathan Sha, the former Program Manager at United MileagePlus and Amex CoBrands this Thursday (August 6th) at 5:30pm Pacific Time / 8:30pm Eastern Time

Jonathan is a loyalty industry veteran who previously managed the Premier Program at United MileagePlus and helped build CoBrand credit cards at American Express. He's currently Roame’s Head of Growth and Strategy.

I will moderate the discussion and walk through how Roame is helping streamline the award search experience.

Together, we’ll answer all your questions on Roame and the loyalty industry:

• Best ways to find premium awards
• Elite status strategy
• Mile & points industry trends

Feel free to submit your questions in advance in the discussion section!

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I'm seeing a wide release of Philippine Air business class to Manila from SFO, LAX, SEA, and YVR for 75,000 to 85,000 miles. Nearly every date is available with 2-8 seats open!

Redeem using Alaska Atmos miles. Found these using roame.travel award flight alerts.

I'm not sure what is going on, but I'm seeing United Polaris business class from EWR to SFO, LAX for only 27,000 miles! It's only available for United cardholders though.

So far, I'm seeing these flights from EWR to SFO in August and September. Most of the deals are United First Class with a stop, but some nonstop 787-9 Polaris business class flights are available at the 27,000 miles price.

Since these are cardholder-only fares, so Roame wouldn't have access to them. So I'm just manually checking routes and haven't checked all the United hubs.

I got the chance to check out the Chase Sapphire Lounge in San Diego and it was a really nice experience.

While I did have to wait 20 minutes on a waitlist, Chase had an entire set up where they would text you once your spot was up.

The 10,000 square foot lounge recently opened in December 2024 in Terminal 2, between gates 46 and 47.

The design is beautiful and a little like great Gatsby meets tropical bar. There is mix of the gilded brass finishes, light oak slats, and rattan.

There is small dishes available at the buffet and a full à la carte menu that you can order at your table using your phone.

There is a facial spa, relaxation pods, showers, and a family room.

There’s also a cool full wall dispenser for cold brew, spa water, and a seasonal drink.

The bar is wrap around and fully stocked, sitting at the center of the main dining area. It’s quite packed and can take a little while to order your drink.

Overall, a very nice lounge.

Interesting development. Air France is starting to release 45,000 miles in business class again. Only seeing it on the Paris to New York route for now.

Noticed a big release of Delta One flights for August and September from Delta hubs in the US to Paris (CDG) for 115,000 miles (or 97,700 miles with the Delta cardholder discount).

Seeing Delta One availability 1-9 seats availabile from LAX, ATL, MSP, SEA, JFK, DTW, SLC to Paris as well as 1-stops from SFO, and other airports.

Credit to roame.travel flight alerts

I recently stayed at the Park Hyatt Tokyo after their renovation and it was actually quite nice.

Surprisingly, even after Hyatt’s most recent devaluation, there are a lot of availability at 35K or 45K points per night. I found and booked two rooms at 45,000 points per night using the award hotel calendar search on roame.travel.

The hotel is located in Shinjuku Park Tower in Shinjuku and occupies the upper 14 floors (levels 39–52) of the three-tower complex designed by Kenzo Tange. While this may not be the ideal location for first-time visitors to Tokyo, it’s not bad and close to the busiest train station in the world (Shinjuku).

There is about a 10 minute walk from the subway stop to Park Hyatt Tokyo and depending on which route you choose, can be underground and mostly covered, or above ground. Personally, I love ramen and some of my favorite ramen shops are in Shinjuku.

The hotel reopened December 9, 2025, after a 19-month renovation led by Paris studio Jouin Manku. There are now 171 total rooms (142 rooms and 29 suites). Standard rooms are 484 sq ft and the Park Suite is 968 sq ft (large for Tokyo).

It was made famous by the movie, Lost in Translation, and the New York Bar (52nd floor) is still a beautiful bar with amazing views.

Unfortunately, I missed out on booking the Suites using points, but the standard rooms were quite spacious and much nicer than the popular Andaz Tokyo.

While the vibe of the hotel in the common spaces remained pretty similar, the rooms. The hotel still uses their signature jade green carpets now from Tai Ping carpets and black-anthracite color palette. They added warmer brown and tan tones for the furniture, headboard, bathroom.

The bathrooms were rebuilt as Japanese wet rooms blending marble and wood with separate walk-in showers, cabinetry uses sashimono joinery (traditional Japanese woodworking without nails). The sliding doors are made from Italian leather. For amenities, they kept the partnership with Aesop.

The tech also got upgraded with automated light switches by the bed, USB-C ports, wireless charging pads, and phone casting to the 65-inch TV.

Views from the rooms are great since the hotel floors are so high up. Bed was pretty comfy as well.

If you’re a Hyatt Globalist, breakfast is included and served at Girandole by Alain Ducasse. You have two choices of a Western gourmet buffet or Japanese is teishoku/washoku style set. The Japanese set typically includes grilled seasonal fish (like salmon or black cod), slow-cooked onsen egg, miso soup, local pickled vegetables, and steamed rice.

Note that portions are small with buffet items more like canapés.

While service was extremely slow, the food quality is undoubtedly high quality and beautifully presented. Probably the best western breakfasts at a 5-star hotel.

The common areas were renovated, but very small touches. The atrium lobby and the atrium gym and pool, looked almost exactly the same as the last time I visited 9 years ago. Still very impressive and grand.

The gym is split on both sides of the pool and decked out with Techno gym equipment. Park Hyatt Tokyo is one of the rare hotels that has a real squat rack and bench press with a full detachable olympic bar.

Hotel guests have complimentary access to the gender-segregated spa (hot tub, steam room, dry sauna, and cold plunge). While the design is western-style, the etiquette is Japanese: clothing/swimsuits are forbidden. The temperature of the hot hub is hotter than the US. This is standard for Japan/East Asia, so please do not ask them to lower the hot tub temperature.

Service was the only area that was spotty. For example, even though our rooms were ready, we waited 50 minutes at the check in table because they had a hard time applying the Guest of Honor for the second room we booked.

The check-in representative said they needed to call the reservation team, but the reservation team was not responsive. This was quite surprising since we have not had issues with check-in at Grand Hyatt Tokyo or Andaz Tokyo.

That being said, these aren’t big issues, especially if you are paying with 45,000 points. However, standard rooms range from $700 to $1,200 per night.

Overall, the Park Hyatt Tokyo was a great stay and I would give it an 8.5/10.

• Location: 8/10
• Room: 9/10
• Facilities & Common Areas: 10/10
• Service: 7/10
• Ambiance & Design: 9/10

I noticed a cool new development this morning. It looks like EVA is now releasing multiple seats to Aeroplan for T-7.

Positively surprised and I even saw 8 seats available on the TPE-ORD route.

I recently had the chance to check out the Air France La Premiere flagship lounge in Paris and it was exceptional! The vibe of the lounge was very much understated elegance in the classic Air France colors luminous white, French navy blue, and bright red accents.

It was extremely quiet and was not crowded at all. The reason is probably the access rules.

Only passengers flying La Premiere can access the lounge and they can bring one guest (subject to lounge capacity). Some business-class passengers can buy in, but with extremely strict conditions. You must hold an Air France-issued and operated long-haul business class ticket, your flight must not have a first class cabin, and no Air France flights serving that route can have a first class cabin. And you must have flown Air France on a paid ticket within the last 12 months.

I was able to fly Air France La Premiere because I upgraded from a business class ticket booked on miles. Upgrades are offered 30 hours before the flight, but not always. The trick is to find saver fare business class availability for 60,000 miles or pair with a transfer bonus from a US card. I found my availability using alerts from the roame.travel tool I built.

Air France has a dedicated check-in lounge, which also serves as an arrival lounge. You are paired with your own special Air France agent for check in logistics, including tax free/customs if you need it. This agent will also drive you in the La Premiere Porsche Cayenne Hybrid from the check-in lounge to the airside lounge. It’s a very fun experience and my Air France agent offered to take photos because she saw how excited I was (it was my first time flying La Premiere).

The lounge is huge at 10,700 sq. Feet (1,000 sq. Meters) with multiple seating zones. Air France also offers complimentary Sisley spa treatments, though unfortunately, they were under construction when I was there. The staff told me they would fully reopen in early July.

There are two dining rooms with menus by Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse. Everything is a la carte. There was also a bar, but it was not staffed so early in the morning.

I ordered the omelette smoked salmon, some bacon, sausages, and a fruit bowl. All very good for breakfast. I was just sad I couldn’t try the lunch menu.

There are 4 shower suites, which came with Sisley products. Next to the showers are several restroom pods. Each restroom is housed in its own cylindrical unit, consisting of a toilet, sink, and vanity table. There’s even a chandelier in the center and the walls are padded with suede.

For general seating, there is a main foyer, window nooks, and a backroom. Lots of open seating with charging available.

Internet in the lounge was pretty good, measuring at 140 Mbps.

Once it came time for boarding, an Air France agent comes to find you and chauffeurs you directly to the plane.

Seeing a big drop of Delta One business class availability to Tokyo from LAX and MSP airports. Dates are for end of July and nearly all of August 2026.

• 115,000 miles for LAX <> HND. Or 97,750 miles with the 15% Delta credit card discount
• 94,000 miles for MSP <> HND. Or 79,000 miles with the 15% Delta credit card discount

Just received a bunch of flight alerts from roame.travel

I recently flew the new Air France La Premiere for the first time and it was my favorite first class experience. From check in, to on board, to deplaning, La Premiere provided the most thoughtful service. Just posting a short summary now and will write a full length review later.

I booked La Premiere using a combination of points and cash. You can book Air France business class for as low as 60,000 miles and upgrade to La Premiere using cash for $1,500 to $3,500, spending on your route. To find business class availability, I set up alerts using an award flight search tool that I built called roame.travel.

I specifically chose the Paris to Los Angeles route because that route has the new La Premiere suites. Thirty hours before the flight, when check in opened, I was offered the ability upgrade to La Premiere by paying cash. I was SUPER excited that was able to upgrade to La Premiere and had a hard time sleeping from the excitement.

**Note that Air France’s official policy does not permit upgrades to La Premiere if you booked your business class using miles, but there are countless datapoints of travelers being offered the upgrade 30 hours before the flight (myself included). If you are not offered the upgrade when online check in opens, you can still try to request in person with the desk agent. If you want more guidance here, just let me know in the comments and I’ll answer to the best of my ability.

You experience the La Premiere service right from drop off at the dedicated door first class. I was greeted by multiple Air France agents welcoming to the check in lounge. I was assigned a personal agent who helped me check in and even whisk me past security to customs for tax free validation before the official opening hours for the customs office.

She then led me through private security check and drove me in a Porsche Cayenne through the tarmac to the La Premiere lounge. I thought this was an awesome experience and a nice touch.

I’ll write a separate review for the lounge later. But the design was sophisticated and chic, very much what you think when you think of French design. The lounge was partially under renovation, so I couldn’t try the Sisley spa or the new nap rooms. They’re slated to fully reopen on July 4th or 5th.

All dining is à la carte and the breakfast prepare was exceptional!

When it came time to board, an agent came to get me and drive me on another Porsche through the tarmac to the plane.

Even though there are only 4 suites in first class, Air France dedicated an entire jet bridge just for first class passengers.

The first class cabin was unlike any other airlines’ first class cabins. The cabin felt extremely airy because Air France uses floor to ceiling curtains instead of sliding walls. I used to be skeptical of the curtains, but now that I’ve experienced them, I think they’re superior to walls, especially walls that are not fully floor to ceiling.

Design of the cabin was understated sophistication with an excellent use of white and greys with accents of bright red beautifully placed. Somehow Air France was able to make the white and grey color combo feel upscale rather than feel plastic. Kudos to their design team.

Each suite was designed with a “dual-furniture” concept; rather than a single seat that converts into a bed, the suite features a plush arm chair and a separate dedicated chaise lounge that turns into a bed.

There are also two 32 inch 4K screens on each side and a master control tablet that’s detachable with a base in both sides of the suite. La premiere offers Starlink WiFi; running a speed test, the speed clocked in at 350 mbps.

They also provided an amenity kit with Sisley products, Jacquemus pajamas, slippers, and Denon headphones.

There are no overhead bins; your carry on goes into a pull out rack from the side table next to the chaise lounger.

I was in Suite 1A. To my pleasant surprise, the seat next to me was empty, so once the curtains were closed in the middle divider, it felt like I had a huge room to myself.

The meal service was spectacular starting with a glass of champagne (Laurent Perrier Cuvee Grand Siecle) along with the caviar.

They then served a tomato & melon gazpacho, trout raviole with mushroom cream, lamb shoulder confit, a create your own mixed salad, a selection of French cheese, and a hazelnut cake for dessert. They also offered me ice cream and fruit, which I turned down because I was too full.

With the lamb, I had a small glass of Grenache (Chateauneuf-du-pape 2022, prestige cardinal). Delicious pairing. The flight attendant (Valerie) was extremely observant; when I only asked for a half a glass of red wine, she was concerned that I didn’t like the red wine and offered to pour another one. In reality, I just didn’t want to drink too much, but I thought that observation showed a high level of attention to detail that’s usually only at fine dining restaurants.

Another side note, I have heard from others that the flight attendant will offer to pour you an entire flight of wine for a tasting. I did not want to drink so much, so I did not request this, but this is good to know.

After lunch, the flight attendant turned my chaise lounge chair into a bed and I swapped sides to sleep. I will note that the curtains were pretty hefty so they felt like real walls, but provided more privacy since they went up to the ceilings. They were essentially blackout curtains.

I woke up to another meal service, this time with a tomato tart and langoustine soufflé. Again, quite delicious.

As we were about to descend into Los Angeles, they offered me a bunch of snacks to take home. I ended up taking some Pierre Herme chocolates.

As I deplaned, there was an Air France agent leading me through immigration, bag collection, and onto my connecting Delta flight. He also led me to check-in at the special Delta One only check in and private security line. I didn’t even realize Delta One has their private security line at LAX.

Overall, Air France La Premiere is by far the best first class flight I have been lucky to experience. Would 100% fly it again if I can find good business class availability and upgrade.

After flying Lufthansa Allegris First Class, I had a 6 hour layover in Munich to explore both first class lounges. Our plane dropped us off at a gate that was only a 2 minute walk to the First Class Lounge in Terminal 2. Here are my initial thoughts; I will write the full review later.

My controversial opinion is that Lufthansa has one of the best first class lounges in the world in terms of design, staff to guest ratio, quietness, quality of the dining, and certain amenities.

Lufthansa offers a super nice perk in their first class lounges: a passport control office to handle immigration with no line. Though if you are non-EU traveler, you still need to register at the kiosks for EES the first time you enter the EU, before heading into the lounge.

While checking in, I made sure to ask about the rubber ducky and received my first one!

The lounge in Terminal 2 was just renovated and reopened in May 22, 2026. It’s over 10,000 square feet of high end industrial design and reminds me of Apple/Dieter Rams. This new lounge also has elements of the new Allegris first class with similar wood paneling and use of dark blue in the dining area.

It’s a huge lounge and extremely quiet. During my 2.5 hour stay in this lounge, I saw only 15 other guests.

The service was impeccable, with attendants approaching you as you walk in asking if you’d like a drink or would like to dine in the eating area.

There’s an extensive buffet section that feels highly curated with a wide assortment of colors and cuisines.

They had 4 a la carte menus this one including a special one for the World Cup. They also have the regular, Taste of Sea, and Fast Lane menus. The selection was extensive.

I had the Tom Yung Gong soup, Tom Kha Octopus, and Bavarian sausage. The Thai soup was actually spicy (and authentic)! I have always quite surprised at how good the Thai food is at the Lufthansa lounges and it’s always on the menu.

The shower and restrooms were extremely clean with a similar minimalist, but high quality design. Because there were so few travelers in the lounge, there was no wait for the showers.

The lounge had multiple large seating areas with beautiful tan leather sofas, single occupancy business booths, and even a cigar lounge. The cigar lounge had an entire selection of whiskey, spirits, and other alcoholic drinks.

The only think that this lounge lacks is a view and nap room, but you can always visit the First Class lounge in the satellite terminal for beautiful views of the planes on the runway and rooms to nap.

Overall, the Lufthansa first class lounge is always a treat and the dining is on par with high end restaurant quality and plating.

Note: You can also read up on my Allegris first class review on Reddit. I was able to book Allegris business class with the help of roame.travel award flight alerts and then upgraded to Allegris first class by bidding. (Full disclosure: I'm the founder of Roame).

I flew Lufthansa’s new Allegris First Class to Munich and booked using miles with an upgrade bid. Will write a full review later, but here are my initial thoughts.

While I had many alerts set for Lufthansa first class, Allegris did not seem available to book directly using points. So I had to set my roame.travel alerts for Allegris business class and then hope for the opportunity to upgrade.

I had the chance to book a connecting business class flight with a stop in Munich for only ~79,000 miles, but was too slow and ended up just booking direct to Munich for ~100,000 miles. I was offered the ability to bid for first class shortly thereafter.

The bid ranged from 990 to 2,308 Euros. I bid 1,800 based on other Reddit users’ reports, but suspect I could have gotten for lower around 1,400 euros or even lower.

Check in went smoothly though Lufthansa only opened their check in desk 3 hours before the flight, so there was some waiting.

The agent at the first class check in was super friendly and told me that if I wanted to be first to board, she would be at the gate to lead me onboard!

We waited on the jet bridge for about ~5 minutes because the crew needed a bit more time. I struck up a conversation with another first class traveler who told me that he was upgraded. He implied that he was upgraded due to his loyalty status rather than paying for an upgrade, but I didn’t ask him to clarify.

After boarding, we walked through the Allegris business class seats to the 3 suites in first class.

I chose suite 1A, which was gorgeous in the new Allegris design with dark blue hues, mood lighting, and wooden panelling. Turns out, I chose the only suite that was broken, which I did not find out until later.

The flight attendants, purser, and captain stopped by each of 3 first class passengers to welcome us.

The guy sitting to my right in the middle suite plus was super excited and taking lots of photos. We helped each other take some photos of each other sitting in the suites.

Each suite was decked out with 32 inch 4K screens, 3 pillows with different firmness, and a blanket. The flight attendant provided the wireless Sennheiser headphones, pajamas, and amenity kits.

Storage is under the ottoman across from your seat You lift up the ottoman like a clam shell, but I thought the design could be better. The mechanism has some triangular latches that bruised my hand.

Lufthansa has some really nice soft touches like a real red rose in each suite and in the lavatory. The flight attendant also provided me with skincare menu that I could order complimentary on request.

The drinks menu had a large selection including two really nice champagnes: Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame and Bollinger La Grande Annee. And a bunch of wines and whiskey!

For dinner I chose Veal Osso Bucco for the main course. There was an amuse bouche, caviar service, appetizers, intermediate courses (salad, soup), cheese selection, and dessert selection. While I don’t think Lufthansa offers unlimited caviar like Emirates, the flight attendant did offer a second helping.

Unfortunately, as I got ready for bed, the flight attendant informed me that my suite was broken due to a software issue and the lights could not be turned off. They offered to turn off all power to the suite so that the ceiling light wasn’t shining directly on my face, but that would also mean no power for the screen and seat adjustments. In the grand scheme of things, not a big deal.

There was also an issue with my sliding felt doors. One of the doors would not stay closed and would always slide back open. The flight attendants spent a while trying to fix it, but ended improvising with towel looped between the handles of the doors and tied together. Otherwise, I had a great sleep.

*I was later informed that Suite 1A was known to have issues and was surprised I was assigned to that seat. Jokes on me because I picked Suite 1A myself.

Overall, the new Allegris first class is beautiful in design, with great service, and solid dining. Unfortunately, it still has some kinks with the seat technology. I would fly this product again, but won’t bid as high.

Forgot to ask for them my last few times in the Lufthansa first class lounge.

Booked business class using miles and then bid for upgrade to Allegris first class using cash. (Review to come!)

I'm seeing a lot of Delta One business class availability on various routes from US to Europe for only 115,000 Skymiles (or 100,000 miles with the Delta card).

Dates are from June to August 2026.

Found these award flight availability using the roame.travel tool.

There's a lot of random routes, so I'm only providing a selection:

• ATL to MUC
• ATL to FRA
• ATL to ZRH
• ATL to LHR
• BOS to MAD
• BOS to BCN
• BOS to LIS
• JFK to FRA
• JFK to OPO
• JFK to ZRH
• JFK to VCE
• DTW to FCO
• DTW to MUC
• DTW to FRA
• MSP to FCO
• SLC to LHR