Originally Posted by moondog

A few comments:
What other options are you considering? Are you planning on spending any time in BJ? If not, flying via NRT, ICN, or HKG would be better choices IMO.

Otherwise, perhaps you could fly AC or even CA to PEK and book a 20k UA (30k business) award for the other segments; this would let you fly on SQ, which is much nicer than CA.