Alitalia, many award seats available for Tokyo Olympics period
The Tokyo Olympics will take place, a year late, between July and August 2021. Just over [...]
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The Tokyo Olympics will take place, one year late, between July and August 2021.
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With just over 7 months to go until the inaugural ceremony, scheduled for July 23, they are still plenty of award places available On the only Alitalia flight connecting Rome with Tokyo.
Before the pandemic, there were two daily connections, one from Milan Malpensa and one from Rome Fiumicino both bound for Tokyo Narita airport, but now there will be only one bound for Tokyo Haneda. In this period of uncertainty in the rumors of the new Alitalia, Tokyo will be one of the few intercontinental connections that will still remain active, so if travel returns next summer, this could be one of the "certain" flights in the new schedule.
The cost for a round-trip award ticket ranges from 80k miles for economy to 120k miles for Magnifica class, plus about 320 euros in taxes.
Looking through the availability reveals, to no small surprise, that there are still a number of bookable places to go to Japan in the summertime and right during the Olympic weeks.
A practical example. You can go to Japan, to experience the opening of the XXXII Summer Games, by leaving on July 16 and returning on July 26. Both business (two) and economy (at least 4) seats are available for that date.
Are you thinking of getting these two tickets? Of course, we recommend that you pay using the American Express Gold Alitalia, which right now offers you a bonus of 30 thousand Alitalia miles, which allows you to earn 3 miles for every euro spent with the card, offers you important travel insurance (mandatory to go to the nation of the Rising Sun) and many other advantages.
If you then really want to maximize the redemption of the two tickets, we recommend that you have in your wallet the American Express Alitalia Verde which will give you the opportunity to have the 20% of milesback, that is, if you spend 240k miles you will immediately get 48k miles back, the amount needed to even go to New York for free.
