Getting To Israel On The Cheap With BA Avios And Air Berlin

Dan do you know the quality of the business cabin for that Dusseldorf segment?

Will doubling the miles on air Berlin put you in business?

Just curious, I want to fly to Melbourne Australia from LAX with this Avios-Amex promo, how can I book a quantas flight or any flight with Avios? Or is there a cheaper way of getting there? Any help is appreciated. 🙂

AirBerlin does not offer business on the TXL-TLV flight. It’s a one cabin aircraft.

@sd;fsjdlf: But you still get to fly across the pond in Biz.

good trick but ba offers just a couple flights in oct – dec

I have booked a flight from TLV-JFK (TXL?) that had a good connection. it is possible and no fuel charges.

Dan, any way to get to Belgium using avios without these crazy fuel charges???

Is this roundtrip, or just one way?

what’s the link to the website you uploaded these pages from?

@g f:
Date?

@Desparat:
On Aer Lingus or Air Berlin.

@Michael:
Read the post.

@bubble347:
http://www.ba.com

Dan can i book such a flight with a credit card instead of using miles? or it must be miles?

dan but there is no partner flights bet. Berlin and new york, can you help with that

i just bought 2 weeks ago a return ticket for 1200 on Qantas mel-lax from qantasexperts@gmail.com they are pretty good… and the cheapest. i don’t know about avios.. although united has decent economy, business and first availability.. i have bought a mileage flight – first class with them and it was out of this world.
but if your on the cheap and want a good quality airline (qantas is really good) the above agent is the “Qantasexpert”

@Estie:
Miles.

@Yitz:
Gotta do some BA.com hacking then. You need to find a date without BA availability. Try something like 12/23 and work backwards or forwards from there once you are able to include partners.

thanks Dan, but the tax back comes out $123

17 hours layover…

@Yitz:
Germany departure taxes are likely most of that.

It reach’s worth of more than $800 round trip JFK-TLV, with a stop

Great pick up! Business is a great deal with current Avios promotion when you compare 60K united business (36K Amex). Even if it doesn’t give you business from Berlin to TLV, it is worth it for the trans-atlantic route and using the lounge during connection. I happen to only need 1 way to TLV so this is perfect.

i went on BA.com. Even chose dates around 12/25. did not see the list of the partner airlines at all. after going on BA.com and telling them which dates i want, i got the charts of the outbound and inbound dates and prices. at what point and where do i click for the partner airlines?

AB does have connecting flights from TLV-US. For example, they have connecting flight TLV-JFK Oct. 10, but not on Oct. 11

Dina, how long is the connection? When I checked they were full day ones.

Awesome tip! I just booked tlv-lax for Succos for 2!

@mpz:
I said 12/23, not 12/25.

@dina:
Interesting!
I do see availability for example from TLV-NYC with a 2:15 connection on 10/15 and 10/16 for example.
Comes out to 30K Avios and $61 tax.

dan what would be the cheapest price for the 2 one way tickets tlv-germany germany- nyc? also anyone have an idea what the minimum time you would need btw flighs in munich for example?

i search on http://onw.innosked.com/?show=MAP with preferences set for flights on air berlin as the airline from nyc to tlv. it showed some flights on a sample date (eg. 10/14) they show on the map such flight do run (jfk-dus/ dus-tlv) however upon searching include partners on ba.com there were no such results. would you say this is because there is no reward availability or because not all air berlin flights come up on ba’s partner search?
thanks

Why do you want to find dates without BA availability? Is it a better bet to fly a partner? Lower fuel charges? Thanks! Amanda

@esti:
It won’t show up if there isn’t award availability.

@Amanda:
Flying on BA incurs very heavy fuel surcharges.

@dan
thanks for the quick response,
would you say that searching the online timetable would be a good starting point to see if flights were even “nogaya” for specific dates? because it does give the option to expand the search criteria +/- a few days…

Love that AB flies from LAX, but it seems business class is the equivalent of domestic first on American or United.

Dan, I imagine the no fuel surcharge on AB is something new and that’s why you didn’t hear about it. I booked AB from TLV-JFK (only 70 minute stopover). Booked it in Business (for me and my wife) and Economy (for my son) in November 2011 for 10/10/12 flight. Was charged approx. $300 in fuel surcharges for each ticket. 65k miles for business and 32k for economy.

Is it worth contacting someone to reverse charges and if so, who? I booked it thru BA with Avios pts.

I flew this flight a few months back with air berlin. It was the worst flight of my life. I don’t suggest it to anyone.

@RavKahaneTzadak: Business or coach?

@Josh: No, you can,t reverse charges.

Yay! Just transferred 115,000 Amex point into 161,000 Avios miles, and booked FIVE one ways from JFK to TLV for 150k Avios (cost to me per flight= 21,428 Amex points!).
Dan, you ROCK…

You can now search air berlin award availability on aa.com and then call BA to book with avios

Dan, I have tried for days to try and find award flight with avios on the return leg from tel aviv to new york with air berlin with 0 sucesss. On the first leg from ny to tel aviv with air berlin there appears to be some flights but not much. How difficult is it to try and get a flight with avios w Air Berlin from tel aviv to ny?

@Davidd: David, I’m also trying to book on Air Berlin for return from TLV to JFK with no success. Has anyone else encountered the same issue? I’ve been looking a few times a day for a few weeks.

Is there a way to use AA status or any OW status to pick seats for free on AB?

It appears that BA redesigned their mileage booking option a while back, it doesn’t seem to show partner flights at all? How do you get to it?