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-Earn 5 points per dollar on the AMEX Platinum Card or 3 points per dollar on airfare with the AMEX Premier Rewards Gold Card or the AMEX Business Gold Rewards Card.
–Bookable on Priceline. Tickets purchased from Priceline today are refundable until 11:29pm EST tomorrow. Please see this post for directions on how to cancel these tickets.
American, Delta, JAL, and United have $495 fares nonstop from LA to Tokyo (HND and NRT).
-Outbound travel from LAX is valid on select Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from March 7-May 11.
-Return travel from Tokyo is valid on select Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from March 13-July 6.
-A 6 night minimum stay is required. In other words if you depart LA on a Tuesday (arriving into Tokyo on Wednesday) you can’t return until the following Monday (arriving into LA the same day, about 6 hours before you left Tokyo)
–Use Google flights to help find valid dates.
-March-April is Cherry Blossom season in Tokyo and Kyoto and is a wonderful time to visit. From March 12-26 there is a Sumo tournament in Osaka and from May 14-28 there is a Sumo tournament in Tokyo.
–You can find trip notes on Tokyo here.
These fares are not on sale with miles, but you can pay for the ticket with “hybrid points” if you have AMEX or Chase points and a Business Platinum or Sapphire Reserve card.
Using AMEX points:
If you have The Enhanced Business Platinum Card® from American Express OPEN you can get a 50% rebate on the airline of your choice.
The 50% rebate will go back into your account the day after redeeming points.
You can login to your account and redeem AMEX points for travel here.
AMEX has insider fares for this flight. A $485.36 flight will be 45,766 points and you would get a 50% rebate making the effective cost just 22,883 points, a value of 2.12 cents per point. That includes all taxes and you still earn miles for flying!
Using Chase points:
If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve® card you can redeem points for 1.5 cents each towards travel.
A $485.36 flight will be 32,357 points. That includes all taxes and you still earn miles for flying!
You can login to your account and redeem Chase points for travel here.
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3 Comments On "Los Angeles To Tokyo Nonstop For $485 (Or 22.8K Hybrid Points) Round-Trip"
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any fare classes upgradeable?
Hey Dan,
You wrote that you still earn miles when you pay through chase. Is that also applicable when you purchase with Amex?
Only if you read the entire post