Any suggestions for airlines with best value for money business class products? for booking flights to India from US West coast, would prefer options to buy economy and upgrade to business class using points. Would prefer One World alliance carrier as my primary FF account is with Alaska Mileage plan.

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If you’re using points you have to book direct. You search for award availability by clicking the use points box when you search for flights.

I think they only allow a certain number of people to fly using rewards points for business class for each flight, so you have to book in advance

I would really appreciate if you could share your experience and/or things you have come across in your research

Alaska can book starlux with points if you have a solid amount. Prices were cheap when the airline launched a few months ago stateside, but I don’t think they can get all the way to India.

That said, they could get you to TPE or connect to Thailand/Singapore where there’s additional options for final routing to India. Options wouldn’t be Y + points upgrade though.

Anyone else remember who shows up in Alaska searches? It’s been a minute since I’ve had anything credited there so I’ll have to do some reading and follow up

Thanks! Due to complexity with missed connections etc, I would prefer to be with one airlines or ticket or at least same alliance.
But I will check out starlux. I have about 200K points, not sure if those are enough.

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