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You can book round trip?
I try to book Business Class to Europe because I’ll be sleeping, but I do not bother coming back since I won’t. I just find a decent miles-based fare coming back, too, ideally. Doing that in two weeks - a lay-flat to Scotland, but Economy Plus return from Sweden. I found good fares both ways.
Backup bookings using miles with a points currency that is easily usable if you cancel
Never thought to do this but makes a lot of sense. Does require you have a ton of points on hand though, since you’re essentially booking 2 flights worth of points.
Typically just take the best redemption to/from Europe and then buy connections with cash
1- measure historical and close in availability for your desired flight and have a plan A and plan B that you can cancel
2- pay for a service like pointsyeah
3- be willing to make concessions like taking positioning flights or leaving +/- 1 day or out of a non ideal city
#3 is what usually people find hardest in my opinion
Because the whole point of business class is confort. And doing 3 offsets that.
Between taking 2 positioning flights in economy for a flight in business, or taking a direct economy class then sleep on a comfy real bed for 10 more hours, I’d choose the latter.
Positioning flights
This plus backups is the way
Get a subscription to Roame and Going (formerly Scott's Cheap Flights) and get search alerts for the points and places you want to redeem. Constantly searching myself is yuck.
It’s sport for my SO! 🤣
Sorry why do you think that you can only book one way? All my point redemptions flights at round trip. You can also almost always find two seats if you plan ahead and don’t wait til the last minute