Originally Posted by
salut0
That makes sense.
However, I’m finding it hard to find any Alaska tickets that include the long 2000mi segments in business class for anything less than about $920 — BOS-SEA r/t, for example — which works out at about $3.29/BA tier point (140+140 points). Adding segments on either end to different western destinations (I’ve tried GEG, BOI, EUG…) or from different eastern origins just seems to hike the price.
Do these long flights ever get sold for cheaper? On Finnair, by contrast, you can fly OSL/ARN/CPH-HEL-AGP in business class sometimes for less than about $600 round trip which works out to much less per tier point.
I’d sincerely recommend you fly AY or AA if you want to do tier runs that maximize BA earning. AS simply doesn’t run their network in a way that makes a lot of this kind of stuff easy. They manage capacity and demand pretty well so usually they will NOT offer a lot of discounts on connecting itineraries (I’ve seen some exceptions where SEA-PDX/SFO/BOI-XXX prices better than SEA-XXX, but it’s not consistently so). the classic BA tier run to HNL on BA/AA isn’t really an AS thing I have noticed.