Book these Japan Airlines first-class awards using JetBlue points while they last

Earlier this week, it turned potential to redeem JetBlue TrueBlue points for award seats on Japan Airlines, opening up potential sweet spots for touring between the U.S. and Japan.

Whereas award availability in premium cabins for the primary day or so the brand new performance was reside appeared to be restricted to inside a number of days of departure and to business-class awards, it now appears like there’s widespread availability of first-class awards and, to a lesser extent, business-class seats utilizing JetBlue TrueBlue factors over the following a number of months.

As first reported by Roame, it seems that Japan Airways has opened up heaps of award house on its flights to JetBlue TrueBlue members. The catch is that a lot of this house is in premium cabins – largely first-class at this level – requiring a whole lot of TrueBlue factors.

Some of us may additionally be cautious of transferring factors from a accomplice program like American Specific Membership Rewards or Chase Final Rewards on the off probability that it is a mistake fare. We have been.

Nonetheless, we tried to ebook a first-class award ourselves and had no problem doing so on a flight from Tokyo’s Haneda Worldwide Airport (HND) to Dallas Fort Price Worldwide Airport (DFW) in June and it processed appropriately. We have been even in a position to log into the confirmed reservation on Japan Airways’ web site and choose our seat, so this seems to be professional. That stated, think about your individual danger tolerance earlier than making any transfers or reserving any tickets.

Here is what you’ll want to know should you’re contemplating profiting from this chance your self.

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Methods to ebook: By way of JetBlue.com. Whereas JAL is a Oneworld accomplice of each American Airways and Alaska Airways, these awards don’t appear to be bookable through both of these applications.

Ebook by: ASAP

Journey dates: Now via March 2026

Price:

• 59,000 JetBlue TrueBlue factors every method between Japan and the U.S. in enterprise class
• 165,000 JetBlue TrueBlue factors every method between Japan and Los Angeles and San Francisco
• 185,000 JetBlue TrueBlue factors every method between Japan and different cities, together with Chicago, Dallas and New York
• Taxes and costs are about $15 outbound from the U.S. and as much as $280 when departing Japan, relying in your class of service.

There are a number of different issues as nicely. Japan Airways provides stellar business- and first-class cabins, however there are some main variations to pay attention to relying on the route and plane you ebook. The airline solely flies its Airbus A350-1000s with gorgeous new first- and business-class suites between Haneda and New York and Dallas. The opposite routes listed are flown with quite a lot of different plane with older sorts of seats aboard, together with Boeing 787-9s with simply enterprise class, and 777-300ERs with each enterprise and first-class.

So, should you’re in a position to place to New York or Dallas, it’s totally value it to get to expertise the airline’s latest fixtures. JAL’s A350-1000 first-class even won the 2024 TPG Award for greatest new first-class because of the suites’ monumental footprints, trendy finishes, up-to-the-second tech (have you ever seen these 43-inch leisure screens?) and unparalleled facilities and meal service.

Barring that, if you’re simply searching for an effective way to journey between the U.S. and Asia, you actually cannot beat JAL for wonderful service and cozy seats.

Greatest methods to get JetBlue TrueBlue factors

JetBlue TrueBlue is a switch accomplice of the next bank card rewards applications on the listed ratios:

If you wish to switch factors from a accomplice to your JetBlue TrueBlue account, your greatest bets are both Chase or Citi, since their switch ratio is significantly better than that of Amex. As an example, should you wished to ebook a one-way first-class award from New York to Tokyo, you would want 185,000 Chase or Citi factors, however 231,250 Amex factors. So take that into consideration.

Additionally make certain that the award flight you need is on the market on the day you need earlier than making any transfers as a result of these are irreversible.