HURRY! Incredible First Class Award Availability On American’s New First Class From Los Angeles-London

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Update: American has pulled the availability…Gotta be quick with this stuff!
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American is adding a 2nd daily flight from Los Angeles to London on their brand new 777-300ER (77W) aircraft on 03/28/15.

The 77W is equipped with just 8 seats in first class and almost every date between 03/28/15 and 05/31/15 has 7 first class seats available for saver awards in both directions.  This is an unprecedented amount of first class award space for an American flight to Europe.

The 77W offers fully lie-flat flagship seating with a chair that swivels so that you can have the seat face the window and work at a desk and a bed that measures 6 foot 8.  There is Wi-Fi and AC/USB power at every seat and there’s an open bar with shacks and drinks.  See more here.

American and USAirways both charge 125K miles for a first class saver award between the US and Europe.  Taxes and the UK APD fee will add $324.50.

American allows for one-way awards for 62.5K miles and a one-way from LA to London will have just $5.60 tax.  Compare that to a paid one-way flight for $12,624. That’s a value of 20.2 cents per mile.

USAirways only sells round-trip awards and charges a $50 award processing fee, though with USAirways miles you can get a free stopover in London and continue to fly on to somewhere else in Europe for the same amount of miles.

Or you can fly on to Tel Aviv for 180K miles round-trip, though if you connect to a British Airways flight fuel surcharges for the London-Tel Aviv flight will apply.  USAirways would allow a free stopover in London, while a stopover with American miles would bump up the rate to 192.5K miles.

You can transfer 20K Starwood Starpoints into 25K American or USAirways miles.

Note that you won’t want to use BA Avios for this flight as they add heavy fuel surcharges to American flights that aren’t wholly within the western hemisphere.

Photos of AA’s 77W first class from DDF member AJK:

HT: Drago, via DDF and Lucky.