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Old Nov 2, 2011 | 11:49 pm
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Originally Posted by goodeats21

I completed an award booking earlier this year (UA miles, booked by UA 1k desk) for Eastern US -> TATL -> BKK in F and the "cost" was 140,000 miles. This was a star alliance award (UA,LH,TG as carriers).

I am not sure where you found the 170,000 mile cost.
Before UA raised the mileage requirement several years ago, I know for a fact (done many F awards thru UA, and that was the answer from all agents, and that is also why I have never done TATL to HKG from ORD in the past) there was a higher amount of miles for routing thru TATL instead of TPAC from US to Asia, e.g. ORD-HKG thru TPAC was 120K in F, ORD-HKG thru TATL was 145K in F.

Therefore, for new mileage requirement I would assume there is still something like that as well, 140K for TPAC in F, and 160K or 170K for TATL in F.
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