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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue is there's 6 of you. There's unlikely to be award space (tickets for miles) or upgrades for that many seats. Airlines set aside only a few seats (often 1-2) per flight as award seats at the outset. Then, if a flight is sort of empty as the date approaches, they'll open up more. But.. Italy in summer is not going to fall into this category. Italy in October or February might.

You're going to Rome? There's 3 non-stops, 2 on United, one on ITA Airways. I picked some random dates in July and it varies from $4,500-6,500 on the direct flight.

If you don't mind connecting, IcelandAir is in the $2,800 range but they dont' offer true business class, just recliner seats. TAP is about $3,300 and they have proper business class seats.

What we do is we plan very far in advance for our summer trips to Europe, like 10-11 months ahead. We booked in November for our August trip to Europe, and I was watching flights daily and worked out the best dates and costs, so we're going for $2,500/person in business class, on a good airline with proper business class seats.[/quote]

Whoa $2500 is a great price for biz class to Europe in summer. What airline/destination? Are you flying middle of the week? I tend to see those prices generally a bit lower. If you want to maximize weekends, say leave Friday night and return on a Sunday 2 weeks later, it tends to be a bit more expensive than if you go say Wednesday to Tuesday.[/quote]

Flying SAS. I narrowed it down to 2 airlines that were best schedule-wise, then signed up for their own sales emails and got one from SAS about a sale. Then I used their site with the "I'm flexible" option to find a set of dates in August where we'd be there for about 2 weeks. Compromised and we'll be back 2 days earlier than planned, but that saved us $400/ticket so it really adds up when the whole family is traveling.[/quote]

Nice find. I like their 10PM departure. Not a fan of those 6 or 7 PM departures, takes so long to be tired enough to fall asleep that you end up with 2-3 hours tops. Looks like they have a nice biz class product.[/quote]

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