Emirates First Class To Athens & Milan
While I generally send award space for two or more people, it's often possible to upgrade a business class award ticket on Emirates to first class so I thought I'd flag some space worth booking!
Now, let's get into the details.
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Straight To The Points
Routes: EWR-ATH, JFK-MXP,
Operating airline: Emirates
Class of service: First class
Dates: Oct 2024 - June 2025
Seats available: 1
Cabin layout: 1-2-1
Book with (per person, one-way):
Partners may not have access to some dates.
- Emirates Skywards: 102,000 miles
- *Air Canada Aeroplan: 203,000 points
- Qantas Frequent Flyer: 107,700 points
*No surcharges
Taxes/fees one-way (per person):
- From JFK: ~$106
- From ATH: ~$148
- From MXP: ~$142
Aeroplan has a partner booking fee.
Bank transfer partners:
- Air Canada: Amex, Bilt, Capital One, Chase, Marriott
- Emirates: Amex, Bilt, Capital One, Chase, Citi, Marriott
- Qantas : Amex, Capital One, Citi, Marriott
Current Airline Transfer Bonuses
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Let me know if you book!
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EWR-ATH
October: 23-25, 28, 29
November: 5, 8, 10-12, 18-20, 27, 30
December: 2, 5, 10, 11,
January: 13-16, 18, 21-30
February: 2, 3, 5-11, 13-15, 18-22, 24-28
March: 1, 3, 4-10, 12-28, 30
April: 1-7, 9, 10, 12-24, 26, 28-30
ATH-EWR
November: 10, 12, 14, 18, 20-28
December: 2-6, 8-15
January: 27, 28, 31
February: 2-15, 17-22, 24-28
March: 1-20, 22-28, 30, 31
April: 1-9, 11-19, 22-26, 28- 30
May: 1-3, 7, 8, 9, 13-17, 20, 22, 23, 27, 29, 30
June: 3-5
JFK-MXP
January: 14, 16, 17, 19-28
February: 1, 18, 23-26
March: 3-5, 10, 19, 23, 25, 26, 31
April: 1
MXP-JFK
March: 11, 12, 14, 20, 21, 24, 26-28
April: 2, 8, 9, 15, 22, 23, 28, 29
May: 14-16, 22
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*Bookable with points
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Flight Experience
Emirates first class gets a lot of talk and for good reason. Each first class seat has a door for additional privacy, the wine selection is impressive, there's an inflight bar, and you can take a shower inflight.
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Best Ways To Book
Emirates Skywards: Access To More Award Space
Emirates miles are likely your best option at 102,000 miles one-way as Aeroplan has dynamic rates for first class that seem to be steep right now.
If you want to book a second first class seat, you can upgrade a business class award booking with Emirates miles at check-in if there's a seat available. It should require 30,000 miles to upgrade.
I would do this on the flight from Milan to JFK or Athens to Newark so you can be awake to enjoy it!
Emirates Skywards+
Emirates offers three tiers of Skywards+ subscriptions. The Classic option is $399 per year and the one that might be worth considering as this membership provides a 20% discount on one Skywards Classic Reward each year.
If you were to book multiple round-trip tickets (or a bunch of one-ways) on one reservation, you might save enough points to make it worth buying.
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How To Book
Search with Emirates:
- Visit Emirates' site
- Select "Log in to earn and spend Skywards Miles" and log in
- Check the box "Classic rewards"
- Enter your origin/destination
- Select your departure and/or return date(s) via calendar
- If booking one-way, check box "One-way" above calendar
- Check box for "My dates are flexible (-/+ 3 days)"
- Select number of passengers
- Select class of service
- Select date
- Select flight
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Final Thoughts
Personally, I prefer the route to/from Milan as the flight is operated by an Airbus A380 which has an inflight bar and inflight showers. If you're going to fly first class, you might as well maximize your fun!
Happy booking!
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