Originally Posted by
ffman999
This is besides the point, but I'd have a hard time using miles for Icelandair business class. Their product is certainly fine, but it's more of a premium economy than business product.
Your AS award choices for business/first for Europe are:
- Outdated product on an LCC (Condor)
- Product similar to domestic F and carrier surcharge (Icelandair)
- Wow, lots of carrier surcharges (British Airways)
- Good luck finding this (American)
- Wow, that’s a lot of miles and quite a detour to Dubai (Emirates)
Europe is probably Alaska’s weakest redemption market. It’s also the #1 market for Americans flying overseas. None of your choices are as good as JL or CX are for Asia redemptions.