Originally Posted by
Boraxo
Similarly you need specifics on prices - $2000 fare for F class SFO-NYC is a nice award, but none of us would pay that. More likely would do $300 with an upgrade cert.
Some airlines fly SFO-NYC with three-class planes, with "true" first class. But in that case, you cannot upgrade from economy all the way up to first. You can only upgrade in that case from paid economy to business,
or from paid business (which will cost
way way more than $300) to first.