Update: United has now pulled the award space on this route.
As happened when United upgauged their San Francsico-Tel Aviv route, there is now wide open saver award space on their new Washington DC-Tel Aviv route!
That route starts operating on 5/22/19.
I’m seeing 4 business class saver awards on all of the dates with the dashes in the calendar below:
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 nonstop business class award space between North America and Tel Aviv is notoriously scarce. So it’s news when any non-Shabbos dates have business class award space to/from Tel Aviv.
Business saver class award 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 75K 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 75K 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 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 95K standard rate. Cardholders also have the ability to book the last seat available in any class with Standard/Everyday awards.
Click Here to get more details on this card and compare to other travel cards!
-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.
–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.
–Singapore charges 45K in coach or 69K 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.
–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.
Upgrade awards:
You can always waitlist for an upgrade award, but the dates above have flights that are confirmable now by calling United.
If you have a paid ticket, the cost of an upgrade varies based on your ticket’s fare class as follows:
In other words, it will cost 35K United miles plus $600 for a one-way upgrade from most discounted coach tickets to business class.
Join the 91K people who follow @DansDeals on Twitter and you’ll get a tweet when a deal is posted on DansDeals.com! Click here to learn how to setup text message alerts (and choose which hours of the night not to bother you) and you’ll be the first to know about every deal!
Leave a Reply
10 Comments On "HURRY! Wide Open Saver Award Availability On United’s New Washington DC-Tel Aviv Route!"
All opinions expressed below are user generated and the opinions aren’t provided, reviewed or endorsed by any advertiser or DansDeals.
gone they closed it up already
You’re right! I don’t see a single award seat
How much do elites have to pay to cancel a award ticket?
Dan,
In general, how do I access the award availability calendar as you have shown in this post?
Great site,
on united.com select the flexible dates and award tickets box
Recently I purchased a United ticket on Singapore with Amex points. Singapore issued the United ticket and put it on hold until the Amex points transfered into my Singapore account.
Mixing posts. I have 65k of spy miles. Should I jump the gun and convert them now to United miles? Before or after the change to marriot and the multiplying of the points? I am from Baltimore and I think I will be using the new hub a lot!!!
Hilarious — wonder who got in trouble at United for committing the horrible error of making award seats available a year in advance. What is that employee thinking? Miles are not to be used for redemptions!
One can only book “AC,agean,Singapore,ANA” if there is award availability on united.com?
So that means the chance that the award will still be available after the transfer time and all is very slim?
Unless you can get them to put the award on hold?
no flights in june