Flights to Papeete

[brittany12]

Seabourn Sojourn  is doing a Papeete embarkation for a segment of its 2021 World Cruise. Anyone out there  have any experience on the availability of mileage business seats on any of the mighty few airlines that fly from US to Papeete?

[alidor]

I have booked this for my husband and myself - love the itinerary.   We flew to Tahiti a few years ago and there really is very little air service there.   I know United is now going from San Francisco to Tahiti but I don't know if Air Tahiti belongs to any frequent flyer program or not.    Might have to use Seabourn's Air or get it on your own.  It is WAY too early to worry about flights anyway.   Can't even to begin looking at that until about March of 2020.

[saminina]

Today, three choices.   United from SFO, once a week on Hawaiian from HNL, Air Tahiti Nui with American miles from LAX.   My experience is cash has worked better  than miles.   I've used the three to get to/from PPT.     If paying cash, round trips can cost less than one way.

Edited September 1, 2019 by saminina
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[DavidTheWonderer]

If the dates work for you, we've had good experiences with Air France. Of course, the word "good" with any airline is a relative concept.

[florisdekort]

We flew Air France business class from LAX. Excellent flight.