Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan partner business class from the East Coast to Europe rings in at only 45,000 miles each way. Right now, I’m seeing pretty good business availability for up to 4 passengers on Aer Lingus and AA routes to Europe via Dublin throughout late summer and fall, 2025. There’s also space non-stop from the Midwest and West Coast for 55K (albeit not quite as plentiful).
Aer Lingus business class won’t be confused with Qatar anytime soon. However, space to and from Europe can be a tough find during the summer, and the price is certainly right in this case. Alaska offers a free stopover on one-way flights, so you could, for example, fly to Dublin and stop over for a few days en route to Paris or any other destination that Aer Lingus serves.
The Deal
- Aer Lingus has good late-Summer and Fall 2025 business class award availability between the US and Dublin. This space is bookable via:
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan for 45K, 55K, or 70K one-way (originating from the East Coast and depending on distance from the West Coast). You can add a free stopover in Dublin in either direction.
- British Airways or Aer Lingus Avios for 60K Avios and about $140-170 in additional taxes & fees
- United Mileage Plus for 88K miles one way.
- Departure Airports include:
- 45K one-way: Boston (BOS), Charlotte (CLT), Cleveland (CLE), New York (JFK), Minneapolis (MSP), Newark (EWR), Orlando (MCO), Philadelphia (PHL), Washington, DC (IAD)
- 55K one-way: Chicago (ORD), Dallas (DFW), Denver (DEN), Los Angeles (LAX), Minneapolis (MSP), Orlando (MCO), Seattle (SEA), Washington, DC (IAD)
- 70K one-way: Los Angeles (LAX), San Francisco (SFO)
- Note that some airports price at two different levels, depending on Alaska tech gremlins and connections.
Quick Thoughts
Availability for at least 4 passengers between to Dublin for 45K (Alaska miles) is fairly open in July, August, and October, less so in September. As of writing, there are 37 non-stop flights showing availability for four passengers according to seats.aero, some of which are shown below:
By contrast, there are 47 non-stop flights with at least four seats in October that are priced at 45K, 17 in July, and 13 in September. There are many additional connecting itineraries.
The return direction is even better in August, with over 60 available non-stop dates, including the ones shown below:
Keep in mind that if you are booking via Alaska Airlines Mileage plan, you can have a free stopover in Dublin in either direction and connect beyond Dublin. The price will depend on the distance flown: Under 3,500 miles is 45K, 3501 to 5000 is 55K miles, and over 5,000 is 70K – although some options price one tier below for some reason.
You can also book Aer Lingus with a number of other mileage programs in addition to Alaska. For instance, you could book via United Mileage Plus, though you’ll pay nearly double the number of miles from the East Coast at 88K miles each way, and availability isn’t as good. Avios is distance-based and charges for each leg, so it isn’t the best for connecting itineraries. However, it does price the non-stop at 60K, though it’ll cost you about $140-$170 in taxes & fees each way.
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From DC Alaska awards are horrible on EI and all partners to EU. Either 55K + $1000 on BA or 255K+$35 on AA. Miss having Condor at BWI. On EI’s own site the 13K coach + $150 and the 50K biz + $150 are not that hard to find.
just FYI, seeing nothing late Sept Eastbound/early Oct Westbound
AND, nothing showed up on Points Yeah, but I was able to find some on AS by directly searching there
Tim – I’m pretty sure this could be its own post: “Note that some airports price at two different levels, depending on Alaska tech gremlins and connections.”
What’s up with that?
FYI Aer Lingus does not fly from CLT but there is quite a bit of business class availability on AA for CLT-DUB.
Yeah, that’s one of the AA routes that I mentioned. Same pricing.
You left out out YYZ as one of the 45k airports. That may seem logical (audience is 88% American probably) but is it? More for me, I guess, but savvy US Northeast readers will know that positioning to Toronto is occasionally a thing. Ask Greg if he’s ever positioned to YYZ for a good redemption. If he has, why not include YYZ and YUL in the thinking whenever you think “Northeast”? At least your readers should. And if one gets a NEXUS (which includes Global Entry and TSA Pre®) instead of merely getting Global Entry (for the same price) you get queue-free entry to Canada’s airports. Handy for your Condor, Qatar, Lingus, EVA, Virgin Atlantic, KLM/AF, or other redemption from Toronto, that just never showed up in your searches from BOS NYC ORD IAD PHL etc. Fellow readers, searching for redemptions from “all Northeast airports”, search from Toronto YYZ and Montreal YUL too.You never know.
Recently flew DUB-DEN in Aer Lingus business with my family. Had a great experience – this is a great value!
Flew that route in the opposite direction last summer. Not the best business class product or service but very convenient since DUB was our final destination.