Wife and I are doing a trip to Italy this October and looking to use pts to book business flights. We were able to book with Air France to CDG on the way there. Having trouble finding good options from Venice back to JFK (or EWR). Monitoring daily with point me - any tips? Am I missing something? Lowest return I’m seeing is roughly 200k per person. Flights to CDG were 55k a person. Just wanted to see what has worked well for others or if it’s just a waiting game at this point.

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If Flyingblue is giving you issues, BA will likely have space (and have the club suites to JFK). Fuel surcharges from continental Europe will be high but not atrocious (-$300). Use Cathay Pacific Asia miles for lower YQ.

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One option is to fly to Madrid for a night or two and then Madrid to JFK. Only 25.5k Avios on Iberia Airlines for premium economy. Comes out to 51k miles + $259.30 taxes for 2 premium economy tickets.

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Thank you for the help! I see a ton of award flights this Friday from VCE to JFK with Air France or Iberia so I’m wondering if they release more award flights closer to the date? Because as of now in October Iberia and Air France are showing low to no award flights for business.

RSM1 - saw that too but hoping I can get some business awards

Singapore runs a day in day out 80k redemption from FRA to JFK. Sadly it won’t be on the A380, but the product is still top notch.

If you’re patient, they often include the route in their kris escapes and saver rate is 56.5K points. One of the best quality/value redemptions you get relative to the hard product

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