Alaska US domestic business class flights code as first class?
Aug 27, 2021, 3:58 pm
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Alaska US domestic business class flights code as first class?
I was trying to use Marco Polo points to book an AS BOS-SFO flight in business (US domestic first class) and it codes as international first class and thus costs 45k as opposed to 25k...has anyone experience this? Does calling get them to manually use business class rates? Thx
*Edited to highlight it was an AS flight
*Edited to highlight it was an AS flight
Last edited by SLINKYTRAVEL; Aug 28, 2021 at 9:33 am
Aug 28, 2021, 8:54 am
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I was trying to use Marco Polo points to book a BOS-SFO flight in business (US domestic first class) and it codes as international first class and thus costs 45k as opposed to 25k...has anyone experience this? Does calling get them to manually use business class rates? Thx
Aug 28, 2021, 9:35 am
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I don't have first hand experience myself. However, while AA domestic first has been treated as business for a few years, AS first remains first in AM's definition. https://www.asiamiles.com/en/earn-mi...irlines#redeem clearly states only F and Y awards are available on AS flts.
Aug 28, 2021, 6:08 pm
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It wasn’t necessarily incorrectly coded it was that AA marketed the front cabin on two class flights as F. With BAEC you could also earn F tier points and avios on those two class flights. Similarly, QR still markets the front cabin on their intra-ME two class flights as F.
Sep 1, 2021, 1:17 am
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