[Now With Business Class To London For 64K Points!] Awesome! Redeem Emirates Miles With Wide Open Award Space For JetBlue MINT Business Class Flights!

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Update: You can now book travel on JetBlue to London on Emirates.com.

For example a one-way flight to London in MINT (in fare class I as described below) can run some $5,220:

Or 247,500 JetBlue points:

But you can book it for just 64,000 Emirates miles each way! Incredibly, there are no fuel surcharges:

However, you will pay the UK’s hefty Air Passenger Duties for the return flight:

Originally posted on 7/9/21:

You can now book JetBlue flights using Emirates miles on Emirates.com.

You’ll need to login to an Emirates Skywards account to search for award space. After logging in, click on Book Classic Rewards Flight and then Search partner flights only.

While JetBlue charges points based on the actual cost of the flight, Emirates charges based on the flight distance, which you can look up on a site like gcmap.com.

Award availability in coach appears to be extremely stingy, but surprisingly, award space in MINT business class is extremely generous.

For example there is award space available from Newark to Los Angeles in MINT class this Sunday, despite paid tickets selling for $1,502:

JetBlue wants 138,500 points in MINT class for those pricey flights:

But with Emirates it costs just 52K miles, a value of 2.87 cents per mile!

If you want to search for economy award space for a whole month at a time, you can search on ITA Matrix for booking class I on a one-way flight. To do that, just click on advanced controls and then paste this into the routing code field: B6 / f bc=P

If you want to search for MINT award space for a whole month at a time, you can search on ITA Matrix for booking class I on a one-way flight. To do that, just click on advanced controls and then paste this into the routing code field: B6 / f bc=I

You can find lots of other useful ITA codes in this DDF thread.

That will give you a calendar of dates with availability:

And then clicking on a date will give you the flights that are available:

Clicking on a flight will confirm that it’s available in booking class I:

And then you can go to the Emirates site to find those same flights available:

I couldn’t find a consistent way to search for economy availability on ITA Matrix.

The same 52K MINT rate would apply to other routes, like NYC to Las Vegas, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle. Search for NYC on the Emirates site to include JFK and Newark. You can find all MINT routes here. If the Emirates site doesn’t allow you to search for your preferred route you can call them at 800-777-3999 to book.

You can also call JetBlue to reserve 3 course kosher meals on all MINT class flights!

You can check if a plane has the new MINT suites by looking at the seat map on JetBlue.com.

Old MINT class:

New MINT suites:

JetBlue’s new Mint class suites look awesome:

Unfortunately the Emirates site does not allow you to search for NYC-London flights. I tried calling Emirates 3 times at 800-777-3999, without much luck. The first 2 agents and a manager told me that they are only able to book domestic JetBlue flights. That was clearly not true though as I was able to get some flights to the Caribbean to price out at 40K miles in MINT class. Typically JetBlue’s Caribbean flights only have MINT class planes on Saturdays.

On my 4th call, the agent said that he couldn’t price it out, but he held the award space that I found. Note that you need to search ITA for a round-trip flight to London in order to find booking class I space.

The agent said he will call me back when he is able to get pricing information for my flight. If it’s available I’m expecting the cost to be 64K miles each way. However JetBlue charges massive fuel surcharges on their London flights, which would make the redemption pointless if they are passed on in full by Emirates:

Still, this is a potential game changer as JetBlue transcontinental business class availability is excellent even when fares are high, and there’s a wide range of bank partners that transfer to Emirates. Those transfers are all typically instant, but if you want, you can call Emirates to hold an award while you transfer points in.

Will you take advantage of this new booking option?

HT: mdv, via DDF and JT Gentner