Research
Award flight price research: business class by program.
How many miles a business-class award seat takes, measured on real departure dates rather than read from an award chart.
Editions.
- How many miles for business class? October 2026 award pricesPublished October 5, 2026In MilesZone's October 2026 study of 715 business-class routes (one way, one adult, departures from October 5 to December 3, 2026, prices read from September 25 to October 5, 2026), LifeMiles was the cheapest program on 81% of the routes it priced on 7 or more dates, at a typical 72,000 LifeMiles, but had a seat on only 17% of dates; Air France-KLM Flying Blue had a seat on 85% of dates at a typical 232,000 Flying Blue miles.Method: 203,190 award prices read from each program's own site; a route's typical price is the median of each date's cheapest, counted from 7 dates with a seat. Download the CSV.
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Put to use.
The guides answer specific questions from the latest edition's numbers. How we read award prices is on how it works.