Originally Posted by
sthubbar
Can you help me understand how you calculate this? I am new at this.
I used award nexus to calculate the routes you suggested and it came out as 19456 miles. Is that how you are calculating the route?
AA miles economy come out at 100k miles, so 300k for the three of us.
Where does the 70k come from?
Thanks.
Read AA award chart -
http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/re...servations.jsp
What you need to read is the All Airlines Award Chart - the route you are looking at is Asia 2 to North America (China is in Asia 2 because HKG is classified Asia 2, so AA lumped China together with HKG started a couple years ago to facilitate easier award redemption.)
If you are lucky you could route it as PEK-NRT-HNL on JL free stopover, then HNL-SFO on AA, all for 35K coach oneway, 55K business or 67.5K First class. But then it depends on a lot of luck to find the HNL-SFO award seat at the peak season of Hawaii travel.
By the way, AA is one-way system, so as UA/CO.
In any case, if you dont have your AA miles now, you can forget about the HNL to Mainland part because Hawaii awards are very sought after and many folks book it long time ago.
The earliest for you to get the 3 x 75K AA miles would be a span of minimum 4 months from today in case you are dreaming for this. Assuming you get instant approval of your pair of personal AA cards, $1.5K spend on Visa and $4K spend on AMEX - assuming you get that all done before 1st statement closes (chances are low to get this done not because of one's spending power, but because Citi's 1st statement closing date is extremely random - you may simply dont have enough time to even spend, before the 1st statement closes. The first 75K x 2 may be posted 2 to 6 weeks after you get them. But since you have to wait at least 61 to 65 days from your initial applications with Citi, before you can do your biz card application - the earliest you could even get a business card (not to mention lately Citi has been very strict in granting the biz cards), it means the earliest you can even apply for that, would be in November...
You can still plan to do this but since you started a new thread in AA forum titled "How to get rid of 225K AA miles?" You may not even want to go through the exercise of applying AA cards to get the bonus for you would NOT be able to use them to help for your upcoming trip, and then you will be "stuck: with the 225K AA miles you deem worthless in your other thread.
As for AwardNexus - you must have not used it correctly because NO airline award charts would ever return an odd number of 19456... They are all in xx,000 or xx,500.