I believe you would need all the stars and the moon and the sun lining up in order to beat the Sept 30 deadline to have your MR pts available to transfer to CO by then.
Sounds like a reasonable statement.
One observation I have is that you could include one free stopover in the ticket.
Isn't the maximum stopover time 24 hours? Longer than this, isn't it considered two one way tickets? This trip's stopover time is 30 days between first arrival and final departure from SFO.
Do you have any miles in any programs right now?
Air China (PhoenixMiles) 26,584
China Southern (Sky Pearl) 18,706
Continental Airlines (OnePass) 15,076
Ctrip 8,610
Starwood Hotels, etc. (Preferred Guest) 5,426
Chase online 3,840
Instead of HNL, what about San Diego (SAN) ?
Other ideas are appreciated. San Diego and San Fran are both nice. If we had to spend 2 or 3 weeks in either location I would choose San Fran. Another reason to go to Hawaii is we have 4 free Starwood nights from their recent promotion and all hotels in Hawaii qualify and should be able to enjoy the beaches even in December. San Diego beaches in December are still quite cold.
Los Angeles has a resort that qualifies for the 4 free nights so could go down there for 4 free nights, though still leaves about 2.5 weeks in San Fran.
So far it looks like we may be spending the $8000 for this trip.
