One of the single best long standing award ticket opportunities was US Airways' 90,000 mile business class award from North America to North Asia. When US Airways announced that they would be transitioning to the oneworld alliance, I figured it was time to book one last 90,000 mile business class award to North Asia. And…
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Great to bump into you in the Club Lounge at the Sheraton Frankfurt Airport Hotel.
Lucky,
So didn't you have a stopover and an open jaw? Thought that wasn't allowed.
@ glenda -- Yes, we did. You're only supposed to have one or the other, but in this case the agent still ticketed it without issue.
Once again looking forward to the trip reports! Why not go a little more creative with trip report names these days (admittedly for trip reports like these this is the furthest you can go, but e.g. "Battle for South America" could be a little more sophisticated)?
Are you ever going to sample Air Canada J or how about SAS' new product? South African? Egyptair? SO MANY PRODUCTS, SUCH LITTLE TIME!
@ Chantelle -- Kind of tough for me to review SAS' new product when it's not even out yet. 😉 But reviewing products as fast as I can, I promise!
We just did the last one of the 2
IAD-NRT-ZRH-VIE-LHR-IAD for 90k
and the next one up is even better for 110k
DCA-ORD-NRT
NRT-ICN-(OVERNIGHT)-SYD-AKL
AKL-SYD-YVR-YYZ-DCA
Can't wait, but sad to see this one go soon.
Please suggest how to use miles/points to pay for ICE (train in Europe). Thanks a lot!!!
@ Donna — You can redeem Barclaycard Arrival miles:
https://onemileatatime.com/barclays-arrival-plus-review/
@ ffi - can you give us more details about those trips, i.e. dates, particular destinations and more importantly the airlines you'll be flying with? Thanks.
Lucky, how did you get all of those segments in business class at the same time??? How many months, weeks and/or day in advance did you work on your itineraries??? Now, how could it look like now, considering the fact that US Air is a member of OneWorld instead :)))