Got that last SIN-MLE booked. Ended up buying USAir Dividend miles to do so (100k miles for $1478). Here's why: SQ wanted 65k miles per person in biz with availability showing as "waitlisted". CO wanted 80k per person, and Air Canada 85k. Because USAir's *A table does not have separate indian-subcontinent section it comes out at just 30k per person in SQ BIZ!!! So for fifteen hundred we have return flights in biz plus 40k divi miles for future use (already planning our free Whistler ski trip in Jan....!)

This has all gone so well we're going to go to Maldives for 5 days then come back and shoot over to Langkawi for 3 days before heading home. Looking forward to the home trip on Cathay's first suites, got seats 1A and 1K for us on both legs from SIN-SFO - wait for the trip report in June!!!

THANKS POGO for kicking this whole idea off....