Originally Posted by
dechil
AFAIK HKG-USA does not fly through Europe...only through pacific
Sorry to for the bluntness

, but that's wrong. AF flies through CDG on flights between HKG-NYY and NYY-HKG
Originally Posted by
mhron
I am not trying to do a round trip. What i am trying to do is as follows:
hkg-jfk one way in 1st is 80k. (it is routed hkg-cdg-jfk) however the cdg-jfk leg is not available in 1st, only biz. But the agent (i have called 3 times) says I have to use 2 awards because 1st is not available, so imust do hkg-cdg in 1st which is 80k and then cdg-jfk in biz for 45k.
So why don't you just book the one way trip online then? Like I posted in my earlier post, it worked fine when I did a "fake booking". As long as you're able to be flexible on the dates, you can get this trip for 80K. If not, I'm afraid it will cost you 160K because of the Flex-ticket.
Cheers,
Joe