i thought this might be a fun exercise to see how creative we can get....

so here is my dilemma....my whole family is heading over to the US next year (april-may) for my cousin's wedding & i have been conned by my siblings to pay for their tickets from delhi to new york....

instead of spending around inr 300k for 2 business class tickets, i thought about using some of my miles & upgrade vouchers to save some money....they are young & adventurous so they don't care which route they fly & how many connections they have to take as long as they can fly in comfort....

i'm not willing to spend all my miles & vouchers on this trip so lets say i would be willing to fork out up to 20 jet upgrade vouchers, 100k jet miles & 200k kingfisher miles....

we all know how difficult it is to get a single redemption or upgraded ticket on jet for this route so while the simplest route would be del-bru-jfk/ewr on jet, it will also be most difficult to get....redemption tickets out of lhr are expensive so that is another route i would prefer to avoid....

the cheapest (creative route) i can come up with is:

del-mxp-del on jet (one upgraded ticket & one on miles which would cost a total of inr 65k, 6 vouchers & 108 miles)....
mxp-cdg-mxp on easy jet (2 return tickets should come to around inr 10k)....
cdg-jfk-cdg on air france (using kingfisher miles which would come to about inr 36k & 200k miles)....

bringing the route to del-mxp-cdg-jfk-cdg-mxp-del & the grand total to around inr 110k, 6 upgrade vouchers, 200k it miles & 108k 9w miles....

any suggestions welcome....