I have a trip next year from sfo-Bergen and then return lrh-sfo.i looked with miles I dont see the routing offered by using cadh.

The outgoing I booked award points is sfo-Frankfurt- Stavanger- Bergen . It is a 15 hour flight. All I get offered paying cash is a 19 hour flight . I booked business for 270,000 points. Coach rt is offered for 56,000 miles.

I tried to manually input the trip and it came to about $11,000 in cash in coach.. The date of departure is March 18.The last leg in to Bergen is on a small Sas plane so maybe thats why they don't want people paying cash .

i ask because a friend with no miles wanted to join me but not for $11,000. Seems like they have deals with partner airlines to get me to use miles. Any opinions ?