Aeroplan miles transfer instantly from American Express Membership Rewards, so you could earn enough points for a one-way business-class award from signing up for The Business Platinum Card® from American Express, which is currently offering a welcome bonus of up to 75,000 bonus points: 50,000 bonus points after you spend $10,000 and an extra 25,000 bonus points after you spend an additional $10,000 all on qualifying purchases within your first 3 months of Card Membership. It's easy to amass Chase UR points, too, since cards like the Chase Sapphire Reserve and Chase Sapphire Preferred Card are each offering a sign-up bonus of 50,000 points after you spend $4,000 in the first three months of account opening.Īn alternative to booking this award through United is to go through Aeroplan, where a ticket will run you 75,000 miles plus CA$7.30 (~US$5.64) in taxes and fees. We transferred the required miles instantly to United MileagePlus from Chase Ultimate Rewards at a 1:1 ratio. Thanks to its partnership in Star Alliance, United miles could be used to book EVA Air flights - and with just $5.60 in taxes and fees plus $75 for close-in booking fees (since we purchased the ticket five days before the flight), we were all set. When the TPG crew spotted a Business Saver award for the Seattle-to-Taipei route through United MileagePlus for just 80,000 miles, we jumped on it. The winner of many accolades from frequent flyers to Asia, it had been on our wish list for some time.

With no first class, business is the top offering from EVA, which calls it Royal Laurel class. In North America, it operates a slew of nonstop routes to Taipei (TPE) from Chicago (ORD), Houston (IAH), Los Angeles (LAX), New York (JFK), San Francisco (SFO), Seattle (SEA), Toronto (YYZ) and Vancouver (YVR) - including a 7,800-mile whopper that's one of the longest nonstops from JFK. Nearly half of its relatively small fleet is made up of long-range Boeing 777-300ERs, configured with fewer seats than most other operators of the same plane - the 29-year old airline has made a name for itself as a long-haul specialist.

View the current offers here.ĮVA Air, the second-biggest airline in Taiwan after China Airlines, routinely gets mentioned as one of the best long-haul carriers around. Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available.

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