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United is offering award sales, several of them unannounced, to destinations all over the world at the moment.
United’s unannounced sale on Business Class awards to Europe is ongoing And now, via Dan’s Deals, United is offering three more discounts:
- Business Class between the United States and Central Asia for 70,000 miles each way on partner airlines for awards flown by March 31, 2015. The normal price is 80,000 miles each way on partners.
- Business Class between Europe and the Middle East for 35,000 miles each way on partner airlines for awards flown by March 31, 2015. The normal price is 45,000 miles each way on partners.
- Roundtrip economy class on United flights between the United States and Japan for 56,000 miles. The award must be booked by January 11 and flown between January 13 and March 11, 2015. The normal price is 70,000 miles roundtrip.
United States to Central Asia
The sale between the continental United States, Alaska, and Canada and Central Asia is exactly like United’s unannounced sale on Business Class awards to Europe.
You can book now for travel through March 31 and get partner Business Class for the United Business Class price (70,000 miles each way) instead of the normal 80,000 miles each way price.
March 31 from JFK to Delhi, India: 70,000 United miles in Lufthansa Business Class
April 1 from Newark to Delhi, India: 80,000 United miles in Air India Business Class
Central Asia includes Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
Since this sale is completely unannounced by United, no one knows when it will end.
Europe to Middle
The sale between Europe and the Middle East follows the same rules.
You can book now for travel through March 31 and get partner Business Class for the United Business Class price (35,000 miles each way) instead of the normal 45,000 miles each way price. Oddly, of course, United doesn’t fly between Europe and the Middle East, so the “United price” on this route is imaginary.
March 31 from Frankfurt to Dubai: 35,000 United miles in Egyptair Business Class
April 1 from Frankfurt to Dubai: 45,000 United miles in Austrian Business Class
The Middle East includes Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
United States to Japan
The third sale between the United States and Japan is advertised, and follows the pattern of United economy award sales:
- Must book a roundtrip award
- Must fly United planes (not partners)
- Book by January 11
- Fly January 13 to March 11, 2015
Follow the sale rules for 20% off roundtrip awards.
Japan’s aviation taxes are low, like ours, so a roundtrip prices out at 56,000 miles + $44.70.
Bottom Line
United is currently running unannounced sales to Central Asia, Europe, and the Middle East during which you can fly partner Business Class for the United Business Class price.
There is also a sale to Japan: 20% off economy roundtrips on United flights.
None of these four sales will make me take a trip I otherwise wouldn’t, but all of them are nice automatic savings if you were looking to go to one of these regions.
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I was amazed lots of Jan. flts to Hawaii I canceled my AA flt ($150) and got a Great United flt ($86) for the 10th and a super deal on a last min Cruise ..Lets hope it doesn’t rain to much .
Book’em Dano
57500 on partners in biz to Europe appears to be dead. Pricing out correctly here. 🙁
Seeing that also. Bummer
Business class sale to India has been going on since the Europe sale was announced on the travel blogs. (70k instead of 80k one way on *A partners.) I don’t know about the rest.
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