Business Class Airfare

When you are considering purchasing Business Class airfare, you know in advance that you will be paying more for your seat than if you were flying in coach, right? Well, there are ways to avoid paying full price for a Business Class ticket - and then you can board the plane wearing a smug expression and swaggering down the aisle, knowing that even some of the poor souls in coach paid more for their ticket than you! (Of course, you will do this with tact… Try not to cackle out loud, anyway.)

One easy way to get a deal on Business Class airline tickets is to pay attention to the timing of your trip. Almost anything you reserve for a vacation - like your hotel, rental car, or flight - has a variable price, and one of the variables is definitely related to the calendar. If you know the high and low seasons of the destination to which you are traveling, and if you have some flexibility with when you can travel, you can plan your trip during the low season and pay much less for Business Class tickets.

Perhaps the most common method, however, for spending less on Business Class airfare is to be a smart user of frequent flyer programs. If you always fly on airlines that are within one frequent flyer plan, you will make sure that every flight you take gets counted toward an eventual free Business Class ticket. But even more than just flights, being a smart traveler also means choosing hotel rewards programs and credit cards that give you airline miles on that same frequent flyer plan so you rack up points even more quickly. So, you know all those business trips you have to take back and forth to Austin? Eventually they will add up to a free Business Class airline ticket to Hawaii - and that is a very good thing.

The main thing to remember when you are signing up for travel rewards programs or frequent flyer plans is that if they do not all collect points toward the same airline partnership group, you could end up gathering lots of points on a bunch of different airlines, but not enough on any one plan to amount to a free Business Class flight.

Another thing to keep in mind when selecting an airline rewards program in the first place is how many points they require to redeem that free Business Class ticket - some airlines require more points than others, so you obviously want to try to choose the ones that require fewer points. Not only will you get to a free Business Class airline ticket faster, you will also be using fewer points for that ticket than someone else flying another airline might use to get a free ticket in coach.

For more information on the programs that are designed to help you get to a free flight quicker, check out our articles on frequent flyer programs, hotel reward programs and mileage credit cards.

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