<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by moondog:
NW - no advance booking fee, first class for elites on Y awards per normal upgrade procedures, 30K intra-Asia in business class which can be split with Y
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Living here in Japan, I'll have to go with NW. Besides still only requiring 30K for an intra-Asian business class RT as moondog points out (CO requires 40K), it has a strong Asian network (at least it goes where I want to go) and a good online award booking engine on its Japanese website.
(corrected typo)
[This message has been edited by DoubleJ (edited Jan 06, 2004).]