Originally Posted by
leejeffrey
I am getting ready to move some SPG points into DM, but wanted to know if the following routing would be considered valid for an Australia award ticket.
IAH-ORD UA
ORD-PVG UA (23 Hour layover)
PVG-AKL NZ
AKL-CHC NZ Stopover (10 days)
CHC-SYD NZ Destination
SYD-SFO UA
SFO-IAH UA
Thanks for all suggestions!
I ran into significant resistance on my last award ticket when I tried to go US->North Asia->South Pacific. That said, one agent will frequently do something another agent will not, and this can be a good thing or a bad thing. It would of course help if there was no availability on any of the direct SFO/LAX-SYD/AKL flights (and you may want to check to make sure YVR-SYD/AKL are not available either).
Frankly, if
iztok was able to get a RTW for the normal mileage (and there are a few of us who have done the same, albeit not recently), then I suppose your proposed routing should be just fine.
If you run into trouble, PM me and I'll share some additional tips.