Top points & miles deals
1. *Mistake fare* Finland Business Class – 19k roundtrip
Regular cash price:
$4,000 roundtrip
Departure city:
Los Angeles (LAX)
Sent:
January 13, 2024
Travel period:
February–May 2024, July 2024–January 2025
Available for travel on Finnair if you booked through partner Iberia, this fare had tickets pricing out at about 9,300 points each way (19,000 roundtrip). It’s a pretty solid rate for traveling with points from the US to Europe, even if you were flying economy. But points this low for business class? You lost money not jumping on it.
2. Japan First Class – 145k roundtrip
Regular cash price:
$21,000 roundtrip
Departure city:
San Francisco (SFO)
Sent:
February 13, 2024
Travel period:
April–August 2024
Getting this deal required a little booking gymnastics, but we laid out all the steps so you could snag it with ease when booking directly through Virgin Atlantic. Mind you, there’s generally only one first class seat to Japan per day, so you’d have been wise to take advantage of this one.
3. Paris – 22k roundtrip
Regular cash price:
$900 roundtrip
Departure city:
Minneapolis (MSP)
Sent:
October 16, 2024
Travel period:
April–June 2025
Nonstop to the City of Light at the beginning of peak season? Oui oui. And getting there on points and miles, you’re basically locking it in for free. Savvy travelers know that once you’re on the Old Continent, you can get pretty much anywhere—Barcelona, Amsterdam, Copenhagen—for cheap.
4. *Mistake fare* Taiwan – 15k one-way
Regular cash price:
$1,000 roundtrip
Departure cities:
Dallas (DFW), Houston (IAH), Washington DC (IAD), Boston (BOS), Raleigh (RDU), Los Angeles (LAX), Portland (PDX), Seattle (SEA)
Sent:
July 5, 2024
Travel period:
April 2025
This was specially designed for our quickest and savviest members. Although availability was more limited than we’d typically send out, the deal was too good not to share. Sure, by booking the one-way fare at 15,000 points you’d still need to get yourself back home, but even if you paired the departure fare with a typical 48,000-point United saver award space from Taiwan back to the states, you could fly roundtrip to Taipei for fewer than 65,000 points.
5. Japan – 44k roundtrip
Regular cash price:
$1,000 roundtrip
Departure cities:
New York City (JFK), Chicago (ORD), Honolulu (HNL), Houston (IAH), Los Angeles (LAX), San Francisco (SFO), Washington DC (IAD), Minneapolis (MSP), Seattle (SEA)
Sent:
June 2, 2023
Travel period:
November 2023–May 2024
We sent a dreamy points deal with wide-open availability on Delta and Virgin Atlantic’s award space to Tokyo. Nonstop cash deals from the East Coast to Japan are rare, so New York City and DC routing made this deal extra-special.
Want to see all of our top points & miles deals? Head to our guide for more!
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