[Award Alert] ANA First Class to Tokyo From 45K Points

Run, don’t walk, to book this deal if you’ve got points and want to fly ANA first class to or from Tokyo. Right now, we’re seeing plenty of dates, airports, and seats available—a rare combination for those interested in flying a renowned first-class product.

Here’s the details so you can get to booking.

ANA First Class Award Alert Details

We’re seeing above-average availability to fly All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) “The Suite” first class using points and miles. With a massive seat and impressively large screen, it’s among the best international first-class flights you can book with points and miles.

The best availability for these awards is between Tokyo and Honolulu (HNL), showing seats in most months from December through the end of the schedule on the airline’s A380 planes with an equally great first class experience. However, we’re also seeing multiple dates with seats if you book far in advance — think July and August of next year. Those options include San Francisco (SFO) and Chicago (ORD), which feature The Suite.

• Class: First
• Routes: Chicago (ORD), San Francisco (SFO), and Honolulu (HNL) to Tokyo-Haneda (HND) and Tokyo-Narita (NRT)
• Dates: December 2025; March, May, July, and August 2026
• Rates: As few as 45,000 Virgin Atlantic points one-way
• Available seats: Up to 2 per date

And you’ll definitely want to book with points rather than shell out around $10,000 to fly in this cabin with lie-flat seats and privacy doors.

How To Book

Seats.aero has a great tool called “ANA First Class Finder,” and you can use this to find these seats—whatever routes they’re on. That may not be ideal if you need to fly a specific route, but it’s a good starting point.

Alternatively, you can search for these awards with one of ANA’s partners, including United Airlines’ MileagePlus program.

You want to search with a partner, not ANA, because that tells you which seats are available to book in the preferred method: booking via Virgin Atlantic Flying Club.

From the chart below, you’ll see round-trip pricing for ANA flights booked using Virgin Atlantic points. Yes, these are round-trip prices, and you can book one-way awards for half this number.

For example, you can fly between Honolulu and Tokyo (in either direction) for 57,500 points in first class. You’ll pay 72,500 points from the West Coast or 85,000 points from the East Coast. Combining this with a current 30% transfer bonus from Capital One to Virgin Red (and then moving your points from Virgin Red to Flying Club) means you could send just 45,000 Capital One miles to Virgin and book these awards out of Hawaii.

Unfortunately, these awards can’t be booked online, so you’ll need to call Virgin Atlantic Flying Club’s U.S. number at 800-862-8621 to make a reservation. Luckily, hold times are usually short, and agents are both friendly and knowledgeable.

How To Get These Points

If you don’t already have a bunch of points in your Flying Club account, we recommend you don’t transfer points until the phone agent confirms the seat(s) you want are available. After that, you can transfer points from your credit card while the phone representative starts the booking process.

You can transfer the following rewards to Virgin Atlantic: Amex Membership Rewards, Bilt Rewards, Capital One Miles, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Points, Wells Fargo Rewards (all at a 1:1 ratio), and Marriott Bonvoy (at a 3:1 ratio).

Final Thoughts

If you want to fly the much-raved-about ANA first class, known as “The Suite,” to Tokyo, run to book these seats. These awards are notoriously difficult to find, and we don’t expect this availability to stick around for long, so hurry!