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But even for airlines that do simply call it "Premium Economy" it works the same way. Premium Economy is treated as a separate cabin and upgraded experience from Economy and comes with its own seat, benefits, etc.
Is it that Premium Select isn't offered on the route or that it's sold out? Asking because I just booked travel to/from HI and the routings that included JFK had PS on the JFK-HNL/HNL-JFK legs. And checking dates randomly for various months of the year, I show PS being an option for sale between JFK & HNL. If PS is simply "Sold out", you can't upgrade directly to business class (Delta One). If it's true that the flight doesn't have PS, you can upgrade directly from Y to D1 with an upgrade instrument if the space is available.
I was checking in April 2025. The direct flights from JFK-HNL and back were listed with the 767 and the cabin was marketed and sold as Comfort+. However, the seat map was showing the three rows of seats, where it was rows 20-22. I thought that meant it was the aircraft with the PS seats but just being sold as Comfort+. Maybe I was wrong? I was checking as recently as last night. Today when I went to look, it now shows 767 aircraft, but the Comfort+ cabin is rows 16-21. So the seatmap clearly changed overnight.