awesome find

and just when we thought the B fares were toast..

for those "real" MR junkies you can do the trip 5 times at a cost of $1200 or $240 each crossing ... nets out around 60K or 95K miles with elite bonus!!

The $240-$260 price point can be had with 3 crossings as well (see below) ... there seemed to be some confusion, so you just need to add an extra pvg-SoCal segment on to the end of your round trip and you should be a happy camper / flyer (approx $100 more than the RT alone)

*edit.. finally did the math...

eqm 49-52K depending on routing

rdm 32-35K or 65-70K w/ elite bonus - w/ RT bonus add 26K (only counted 4 of the 5 segments, but you might get lucky and get the 5th to post if its on the same itin) - so 58-61K or 91-96K for elites

*works out to 0.019 cpm or 0.012 cpm for elite - not to mention 0.023 per eqm

not too shabby....

you can probably make some good 1K/Plat status headway with this trip... I was under the belief you couldn't make multiple trips from the same airport, but it prices through... if you have problems though, you can modify lax with sba and sna

you can basically position yourself in F for free with the boatload of miles from these flights

also, for those who can get a positioning flight you can go pvg-lax-pvg-sba/sna/psp/bfl/ont/iyk/smx/bur for $260 each crossing.. priced out on co.com around $780, but can be had for less

last, but not least, if you still wanna get over there and don't mind taking AA .. you can replace the first segment of the $1200 5 flight itin with jfk/ord-pvg and the price only goes up a couple hundred