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Aug 3, 2008 | 10:13 am

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orlandodlplat

Join Date: May 2006

Location: NYC

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mcjava

M RT ATL-ICN usually prices around $2600 for me. NRT often is much cheaper (but of course, not much use to you).

But if you have a lot of miles, the cheapest option may be to buy an M ticket to NRT (My upcoming trip in October costs around $1800 RT) and upgrade it.

Then, you can redeem miles for an award seat from NRT-ICN on Korean Air.... It'll cost you 25K miles for coach, 30K for business (which is quite a bargain, IMHO)