Asia Miles for JAL

[choiklu]

Hi, currently I have 60k in asia miles, but would like to redeem it for JAL from
LAX-SGN return. is this possible.
any inputs would help.


Thanks

[123dd]

SGN-NRT-LAX rt is about 16k miles distance, so you need 90k miles for Y or 135k for J. And you are not allowed to redeem oneway on JL.

[choiklu]

what about redemption on CX
LAX-SGN-LAX

[kaka]

Originally Posted by choiklu

what about redemption on CX
LAX-SGN-LAX

same miles required (for return trip)
you have just enough from LAX-HKG or SFO-HKG-TPE/HAN but not SGN (all rtn trip).

[mleung89]

Asia Miles redemption is based on total travel distance of all flight sectors. The one-way shortest distance is 8169 miles (16338 miles return) already, which falls into the award zone E (7501-10000 miles one way) in Asia Miles and require 90,000 Asia Miles. FYI, travelling from SFO also falls into award zone E.

Of course, you can top-up by paying the gap if you have 70% of the miles, in this case 63,000 Asia Miles. The cost of it is $60USD for every block of 2,000 miles.

Possible routing with 60,000 Asia Miles (award zone D) is to travel from Vancouver. Get a separate ticket from LAX to YVR

You can do
YVR-NRT-SGN on JL return
YVR-HKG-SGN on CX return
or mixing CX and JL is possible.
YVR-HKG-SGN on CX,SGN-NRT-YVR on JL
YVR-NRT-HKG-SGN,SGN-HKG-YVR routings are also possible.

Routings on Air China and China Eastern are also possible.

Do check availability, taxes and fuel surcharges.

[kaka]

Originally Posted by mleung89

YVR-NRT-HKG-SGN,SGN-HKG-NRT-YVR routings are also possible.

No. You are only allowed 2 stopovers, 2transits (or) 1 stopover, including destination stopover.

[mleung89]

Misposted... deleted

[choiklu]

Thanks for such a detail options. anyways this trip is not until Jun-13 , so I have more time to accumulate more miles by then. so it will cost the same miles for JAL and CX routes ? if the same, I want to try JAL services since I have never been on their flight before.

[kaka]

Originally Posted by choiklu

Thanks for such a detail options. anyways this trip is not until Jun-13 , so I have more time to accumulate more miles by then. so it will cost the same miles for JAL and CX routes ? if the same, I want to try JAL services since I have never been on their flight before.

that's alright. please be reminded that JAL routes have MUCH HIGHER fuel surcharges. (327 USD for TPAC, compared to 1000HKD for CX on TPAC)