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Nonstop saver business class award space between North America and Tel Aviv on US carriers is typically a unicorn.
However, United returned to Israel just a few weeks ago and has opened some rare business class saver award space on Chol Hamoed Pesach from Tel Aviv to Newark.
Sample business saver award space (You can also connect from other cities to these flights on the same award ticket):
Tel Aviv to Newark (Note that dates below include Shabbos and Yom Tov travel, always check a calendar before booking):
- April 12-UA85 (At least 9 saver award and upgrade seats for all members)
- April 12-UA91 (At least 9 saver award and upgrade seats for all members)
- April 14-UA91 (5 saver award seats for all members, 5 upgrade seats for all members, 6 upgrade seats for GS elites)
- April 15-UA85 (At least 9 saver award and upgrade seats for all members)
- April 16-UA85 (At least 9 saver award and upgrade seats for all members)
- April 16-UA91 (At least 9 saver award and upgrade seats for all members)
- April 17-UA85 (At least 9 saver award and upgrade seats for all members)
United’s Tel Aviv flights operate with Polaris seating that have direct aisle access for every business class seat. You can choose from solo seats or seats for people traveling together.
Business class seats include United’s Polaris business class service with Saks Fifth Avenue bedding and pillows. Savvy travelers will also request a Saks Fifth Avenue mattress pad and slippers (and maybe even pajamas if you’re lucky), as those are not proactively offered by flight attendants, as there aren’t enough of them for everyone.
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.
Business saver class award booking options:
- You can transfer miles from Chase Ultimate Rewards to United (1:1 ratio) instantly. United charges 40K one-way in coach or 80K one-way in business class for United flights to Israel. United never collects fuel surcharges. Awards can be cancelled for free up to the time of departure.
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- You can also redeem 80K 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 40K 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.
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- Air Canada Aeroplan charges 40K in coach or 80K in business class one-way. There are no fuel surcharges for United flights. Points transfer instantly (1:1 ratio) from AMEX, Capital One, or Chase. Transfers from Marriott (60K:25K ratio) can take 2-20 days.
- Avianca Lifemiles charges 40K in coach or 80K in business class one-way. There are no fuel surcharges for any flights. Points transfer instantly (1:1 ratio) from AMEX, Capital One, or Citi. Transfers from Marriott (60K:25K ratio) can take 2-20 days.
- Aegean charges 35K miles in coach or 55K miles in business class one-way. They don’t charge fuel surcharges for United flights. Transfers from Marriott (60K:25K ratio) can take 2-20 days.
- ANA charges 70K miles in coach or 130K miles in business class round-trip, one-way awards aren’t available. There are no fuel surcharges for United awards. It can take 1-2 days to transfer points from AMEX to ANA (1:1 ratio) and transfers from Marriott to ANA (60K:25K ratio) can take 2-20 days.
Will you grab one of these seats?
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Who is flying on chol hamoed!?!?:
Me but I’m already flying Elal biz
Most people who would be interested to fly on chol hamoed booked already so make sense
@united please release some savers in August on dates I’m watching, Thank you lol
If they booked a saver coach award, they can upgrade to saver business now.
If I book it on these dates, can I later change it to a later date?
You can’t unless there’s a weather waiver, schedule change, cancellation, etc.
Not really related to the saver aspect, but I noticed when trying to book a flight today that it looks like United (and also Delta, I didn’t check American) got rid of Basic Economy for going to Israel. Thankfully!
It will be back eventually.