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Dec 2, 2009 | 12:35 pm

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Originally Posted by JFKLGA30

The wildcards: I have a single trip I need to book to Hong Kong via Narita in business class in March 2010. This is a huge status-gainer for 2010 I cannot waste (I wasted it on Star last year, hence my status). It's for work, and thus I would not use my American SWUs anyway.

This struck me as slightly odd. Your AA SWUs would enable you to upgrade JFK-NRT into First Class (assuming that space is available). When I fly to NRT in D or J for business (generally, on OPM), I upgrade to F if possible.

Since it was all about the chase, I assume you flew 125k elite qualifying miles this year, which will enable you to select up to four more SWUs.

Spending two of the twelve to make the trip to/from NRT verrrrrryyyy comfortable seems reasonable to me.

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