ANA business class Mexico City↔Tokyo: 46 award dates at 85k Aeroplan points

MEX isn’t necessarily the cheapest gateway to Japan with Aeroplan, but I found a surprisingly large amount of single-seat business-class availability in both directions. Enough to make it genuinely interesting for a solo traveler.

5,000 MI FROM TOKYO · EDGE OF THE 55K BAND SEA · YVR ~4,790 MI · 55K M E X N R T MEX → NRT · 6,992 MI · 85K Great-circle distance

LOOK WHAT I FOUND

Traveling alone and trying to find ANA business class to Tokyo?

I found 24 MEX → NRT dates at 85,000 Aeroplan points with one business-class seat available.

The date range is July through October 2027.

Aeroplan’s lowest partner pricing band covers itineraries up to 5,000 miles.

So SEA → NRT/HND and YVR → NRT/HND are priced at 55,000 points.

5,000 MI FROM TOKYO · EDGE OF THE 55K BAND SEA · YVR ~4,790 MI · 55K M E X N R T MEX → NRT · 6,992 MI · 85K SEA and YVR sit inside 5,000 miles of Tokyo. MEX doesn’t.Great-circle distance

Aside from SEA/YVR, even SFO and LAX fall outside of the <5k miles range, so they’re priced at 85k.

MEX isn’t interesting because it’s the cheapest. It’s interesting because I found a lot of availability.

There was also one return date outside the window, on June 11, 2027.

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Finding availability both ways during overlapping periods makes this potentially usable as an actual trip rather than just a fun data point.

So let’s stop looking at rows of data and build an actual trip 💁‍♀️

170,000 Aeroplan points round trip, plus taxes + fees (CA$151.40 + CA$176.10).

I know, I know, it’ll be 100 degrees and humid, but that’s not the point, alright? 🥹

Now comes the obvious problem: what if you don’t already have 170,000 Aeroplan points?

Aeroplan is currently offering up to a 90% bonus on purchased points through October 29.

Here’s the breakdown if you bought points with 90% bonus:

90,000 purchased points + 81,000 bonus points = 171,000 points

Which led me down another rabbit hole below 🤭

If I can buy enough points for the entire trip, I obviously had to know how that compared with simply buying the ticket 🤭

The July 23-30 round trip in Google Flights, currently, costs:

All-in cost if starting with zero Aeroplan points:

Am I telling you to blindly go buy 170,000 Aeroplan points? Absolutely not 😂

But if I had already verified the seats and was ready to book? A roughly $2,675 difference compared with the cash fare is pretty interesting.

At that point, the question becomes less:

If I lived in Seattle and saw the same availability there? Obviously I’d start there.

But if the usual gateways weren’t giving me anything and MEX was showing weeks of bookable dates?

Yeah, I’d absolutely be watching Mexico City.

MEX isn’t the cheapest ANA sweet spot. It might be an availability sweet spot.

The route with the lowest award price isn’t necessarily the route where you’ll have the best chance of actually finding a seat.

If I were looking for one ANA business-class seat to Japan and the usual gateways were dry, Mexico City would absolutely be on my watchlist.

Seats open and close. This is the exact search I use, so you can check what’s live today.

Award availability and pricing change constantly. The dates above were seen on October 16, 2026, in a manual search I ran on seats.aero, and may no longer be bookable. Availability data from seats.aero.