The proposed routing is an open jaw, which NW most certainly permits. Unfortunately, NW doesn't fly HKG-BKK, but you might be able to use MH on that segment. I redeem NW miles in Asia fairly regularly, and have never had any trouble; the trick is to use an Asian site when checking availability.

UA won't be of much use either also because of the BKK-HKG segment. You could use UA miles on TG, but that would run you 40K miles per the *A chart.

The same goes for OW.

Also, for the person who inquired about stopovers on intra-Asia awards, I know JL allows them and would be willing to guess that many other carriers do as well.

[This message has been edited by moondog (edited Feb 04, 2004).]