Classic Reward flight on Alaskan - is it first or comfort plus

[lissie45]

I'm looking at booking an Alaskan Airlines flight HNL-SFO - the classic award option available on the day I want is First - which is fine by me - but when I hover over that option it notes that the flight will be in "business"

However Alaskan 737-900 only has First Class, Premium Economy and Economy. I know their First Class is not proper international lie flat first class - is that what Qantas is telling me? - or are they booking me into Premium Economy - which is just a exit row seat basically

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I'm looking at booking an Alaskan Airlines flight HNL-SFO - the classic award option available on the day I want is First - which is fine by me - but when I hover over that option it notes that the flight will be in "business"

However Alaskan 737-900 only has First Class, Premium Economy and Economy. I know their First Class is not proper international lie flat first class - is that what Qantas is telling me? - or are they booking me into Premium Economy - which is just a exit row seat basically

An Alaska airlines business class award will be seated in the ‘first’ cabin. But QF is charging first class award prices… you’d be better off seeing if you could get a flight on AA or another partner at a more reasonable price (where business awards are charged at business prices!)

 

[justinbrett]

It's also reasonably priced to pay cash for that trip vs a similar trip in Australia - and not bad SCs. But that also means it's not great value to redeem on this route.

I've actually booked AS SFO-HNL oneway end of January to join QF104 to SYD (after a few days to defrost in HNL). I think it was US$499.

 

[DC3]

I'm looking at booking an Alaskan Airlines flight HNL-SFO - the classic award option available on the day I want is First - which is fine by me …

If you have oodles of QFF frequent flyer points, then go for it, sitting at the pointy end. As already suggested, check the cash price.

 

[lissie45]

Its not so much about the cash price (US$560 1st/US$279 economy plus luggage) - its more about that if I book with points I can cancel and only lose 6000 points per person.

I'd like to book because I'd need to fly mid July - peak season - but I want it refundable because it won't be clear for months whether a) NZ will open its border to any extent and b) we're flying to SF to pickup a cruise; and its not yet clear if that cruise will actually go (its a repositioning from Alaska and the ship needs to go to Alaska first).

The other option for a fully refundable is southwestern who does fully refundable for everything except their cheapest fares. I found the mainstream airlines do not.