Reserve the new executive class of American Airlines flagships for only 55,000 miles

Only a few days have passed since American Airlines launched the First photos of the real life of his new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners With his novel Concept of Insignia Suites. Now, those seats are on sale, and we are seeing a quite attractive prize space in its new executive class cabin for only 55,000 miles in one way.

As TPG reported last week, American will launch the service from the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago (Ord) to the Heathrow Airport in London (LHR) from June 5. On August 6, the airline will add service from the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) to LHR.

American will also debut the JET, and the concept of flagship suites, on its flights between Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) and Brisbane International Airport, Australia arrive at the end of October.

High demand for new American Airlines badges

As expected, these planes, and especially the new suites, completed with the first American sliding privacy doors, have a great demand.

The coach seats on the inaugural flight of June 5 from O’Hare to Heathrow are already exhausted, according to the American reserve platform. If you choose to reserve one of the new elegant suites, it will take you north of $ 6,000.

The use of Aadvantage Miles does not look much more attractive, almost 300,000 miles in one way. According to the TPG in May 2025 ValuationsAmerican miles are worth 1.65 cents each. While this award gives you an impressive redemption value of 2 cents per mile, not many people can have 300,000 miles AA in your account.

And while there is a lot of summer economy awards space through AADVANTAGE to 27,000 miles in a single sense, business class refunds are quite expensive until June and July, with prize tickets that extend north of 100,000 miles or even 200,000 miles, in some cases.

Keep in mind that premium economy tickets for 47,000 American miles are a really good prize treatment, which gives you a value of approximately 8.6 cents per mile. However, you may want to stop the reservation of these premium economic seats when you can book a luxurious commercial class seat for a few more miles.

American emblematic suites book through the Alaska Mileage Plan

But there is an active attractive: reserve through one of the American Oneworld Alliance partners, specifically, Alaska Airlines ” Mileage plan program.

As a view from the wing, Gary Leff was the First to informAlaska has opened new flagship reimbursements from only 55,000 miles in a single sense (more taxes and rates). Alaska miles are worth 1.5 cents each, according to our May 2025 Valuations. Therefore, this redemption would give a value of 11 cents per mile. That is incredible treatment!

While there is no award space available every day this summer, it is not also difficult to find.

To reserve a flagship suite with Alaska Miles, you will want to make sure you choose a flight route that operates using the new plane. American designates his new 787-9 with the flagship suites (a huge 51 of them, to be precise) as his “787-9P”.

In American reserve channels, look for flights that say “78p”, as in this example for an ord-lHR flight for July 18.

Reserve this flight through American for an executive class seat is not a bad business (I have seen much worse). But you could be wasting valuable reward miles.

If you only go to the Alaska website and perform a prizes search for the same flight, you will find it available (in this case) for 55,000 miles plus $ 19 in taxes and rates.

PHL-LHR

Here is an example for the Philadelphia flight in the new 787-9P on August 13.

Actually, there is a quite decent August awards space on this route through Aadvantage to 62,000 miles in one way.

But again, you can get it for 55,000 miles of Alaska.

Remember, even if you do not have a tire of miles of aaska sitting, you can, at least for now, Transfer American Express membership rewards He points to his new sister airline, Hawaiian airlines, and then moves those miles to Alaska (But you may want to act soon). Keep in mind that Amex charges a rate (up to $ 99) to transfer points to Hawaiianmiles.

Also, if you are a Bilt rewards Member, you can Transfer the bilt points In a 1: 1 ratio to the Alaska mileage plan.

If you do not find an adequate prize space through American or Alaska, you can always try to search through the partners of the OneWorld Alliance, such as the handful of carriers who use avios such as their awards currency (such as British Airways, Iberia, Qatar Airways and Finnair), or Australian socio of American, Qantas.

You can also use a third -party tool as seats. Aero, Point.me or Roame.travel to help him in Looking for awards space. Simply check the type of plane on the route. It is possible that a third-party tool or partner (such as Alaska) only lists the type of aircraft as “787-9”; You will want to make sure it is the configuration “787-9P” or “78p”.

As mentioned, the new American Dreamliners with the new configuration have 51 executive class suites, compared to 30 in their existing 787-9.