{"id":14348,"date":"2023-01-01T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T09:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=14348"},"modified":"2023-01-01T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T09:26:02","slug":"great-eithad-first-class-reward-availability-from-london-and-other-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/01\/01\/great-eithad-first-class-reward-availability-from-london-and-other-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Eithad first class reward availability from London and other cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Etihad has opened up a lot of reward space on its first class route, and it&#8217;s a good opportunity if you are in for the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First of all you could perform your searches on Etihad&#8217;s website which will give you a 7-day calendar view at a time. In the following example, the 88,024 miles price on March 18th indicates standard award availability, which doesn&#8217;t exist on other days.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-availability-calendar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-availability-calendar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-availability-calendar.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-availability-calendar-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-availability-calendar-768x179.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Once you find your desired flight you could book using your Etihad Guest miles, which can be converted from Amex membership rewards points. You&#8217;d be overpaying (by a large margin) though, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/11\/03\/aeroplan-the-best-flight-redemption-between-uk-europe-and-middle-east\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Aeroplan: the best flight redemption between UK \/ Europe and Middle East\">the best way to redeem an Etihad ticket is to use Aeroplan<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-aeroplan.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-aeroplan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-aeroplan.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-aeroplan-300x42.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-aeroplan-768x108.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A one-way ticket from Abu Dhabi to London in first class costs only 65,000 points and 84 CAD. Charges will be higher for the other way around because of UK&#8217;s APD. Aeroplan doesn&#8217;t have a promotion on point purchase right now, but you can still get their points by transferring from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Amex membership rewards in US \/ Canada, which is instant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marriott Bonvoy, but it might take quite a few days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Etihad flies to London and Geneva in Europe, as well as Washing DC in the States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how Etihad&#8217;s first class on Boeing 787 looks like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/etihad-first-class-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Which is, unfortunately, not comparable to Emirates&#8217; first class suite that I was in a few days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/emirates-first-class-suite.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/emirates-first-class-suite.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/emirates-first-class-suite.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/emirates-first-class-suite-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hopefully their A380 fleet will return soon, and I can&#8217;t wait to sit in the first apartment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etihad has opened up a lot of reward space on its first class route, and it&#8217;s a good opportunity if you are in for the experience.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,36,40,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-canada","category-etihad-airways","category-europe","category-middle-east"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14351,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions\/14351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}