Some more details on my upcoming round the world award ticket

I thought TG was dry leasing the 77Ws from 9W, not wet leasing. I know they are wet leasing 777Fs from Southern Air.

Another thought - are you going to make it back to SF for the Capt. Denny dinner?

If it is taking you 90 minutes to get from ICN to downtown then you're doing something wrong. It was just about an hour on the trains back in August for me.

I'm 14 and love to fly. I think you accomplished all of my dreams in that one trip. I'm SO jealous!!!

Was this booked with MR points or are you actually crediting to aeroplan?

The Park Hyatt isn't even in Downtown Seoul, it's in COEX. @Seth did you take the airport train to Gimpo then transfer to the metro, since the airport train extension to Seoul Central Station doesn't open until later this year?

OK, I am not sure where the RTW award is on this chart - but how is it only 120,000 miles? http://www1.aeroplan.com/use_your_miles/travel/flights/air_reward_chart.do?p=staralliance

UA's award chart sets fees for RTW at significantly more than ACs program. What am I missing?

It's an award to Asia 1 via Europe, which is effectively an RTW award since they generally allow crossing both oceans. Any Aeroplan member who pays the RTW price is being gypped it seems.

Also, nick, I just signed up for lucky's twitter and he's *is* something of a hottie.

Wow nice routing, I've never flown ANA in First but have Sin, and I am blown away that you would turn that down. But I do understand why. Enjoy tour trip. Also how are you crediting miles to AC is it from UA flights or some other way, it sounds like a pretty generous program, and I may consider crediting to them too.

Wow, how do you do all that? I have to admit I am a newbie at this.

wow amazing!! i've read your previous trip report on LH and LX first class, and by some stroke of luck i managed to book an award on a combination of LH, LX and TG first class as well - but your RTW is simply amazing!!
have fun!

The transfer time from SIN to the city is less than 30 mins by taxi (even less during the night). No need to stay at the CP unless you get a much cheaper rate.

Have a nice trip!

Ham

SIN night time taxi rates rise for travel between 10pm- 4 am have a surcharge, but the fare is often better or equal to daytime rates as there will be little traffic on the road which makes for a speedy drive.

I'm really surprised that you don't like Seoul! I think it's a fantastic city, so full of energy and great food (dolsot bibimbap, please!). I can't remember exactly what you did from your previous trip report, but if you haven't been to the Bongeunsa Temple, you might want to check that out.

Just another query to find out if you booked this with MP miles or are you booking your UA miles to Aeroplan?

I think in the past he stated that he transfers AMEX MR points to Aeroplan.

Lucky,
Is returning back to SEA your intention or is that because that's only available, or is it to increase the mileage so that you stay under the maximum allowed mileage?

Impressive.

LUCKY,

Apart from meet up with your brother in ICN, are you doing the rest of your entire trip solo?

JOSH

To #17

He has to stopover in SEA because of the routing and he can use a free award at the Hyatt Olive SEA.

JOSH

Lucky,
Just wondering- how do you manage to maintain 1K, but also accrue enough miles on Aeroplan to book this? Thanks!

@ Joe J -- Sadly I'll be missing the Captain Denny dinner. Was a tough decision, but figured spending time with my brother was a priority in this case.

@ Sean -- Haven't credited anything to Aeroplan, so it's all transfers.

@ Mark E. -- AJ is exactly correct, this is a US to Asia award which allows routing either via the Atlantic or the Pacific (or both)!

@ rkaradi -- I earned all those miles from transfers, not actually crediting flights to them. You're right, though, Singapore is pretty unbeatable. Was a tough decision turning them down, but figured it was worth the new experience.

@ zy -- Thanks!

@ Sam -- It was mostly because that's where I saw availability too, and I figured I could maximize my experience with the longer flight to the west coast. Besides, it allows me to earn some extra miles by booking a separate ticket home.

@ JOSH -- Rest of the trip is solo. Did you want to join me, JOSH? 😉

@ Christian -- Maintaining 1K is the least of my concern (I actually already comfortably requalified), as I do about 250,000 miles per year. But these miles didn't come from crediting flights, but rather from transferring miles.

i am so confused how do you book all this on only 120k miles. I currently have 200k miles to use by next year and would like to book a trip around the world, do you have any advice?

@ Ysabella -- Unfortunately Aeroplan has since raised the cost of award tickets, so this route would now cost 175K points.

Thanks..do you book it as individual portions, or a rtw ticket?

@ Ysabella -- It's simply booked as part of a roundtrip ticket. This wasn't a traditional round the world ticket, but rather a roundtrip with a couple of stopovers.

Thanks, still not sure how this is possible with so many stopovers, I thought they only allow 1-2 stopovers on a return flight, even on a rtw they only allow 5. I thought I could use your expertise to use my points to their max..thanks again

@ Ysabella -- Correct, I only have one stopover. The rest are just connections of under 24 hours.