This may not address your immediate concerns, but consider this...

If you're traveling that far that often, you might want to look into buying a series of round-the-world or "Circle Pacific" tickets (actually I think in your case RTW tickets make more sense.)

Here's why I'd suggest you consider this:

RTW tickets, which entail traveling around the world in either an easterly or westerly direction, crossing both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the process, once each (no doubling back across oceans) are priced very differently depending on where one purchases the ticket and begins/ends the circle. (You have to end in the same country from which you originally departed.) For example, take a simple Oneworld (American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, Japan Airlines, and next year, Malaysian) RTW itinerary for you, like Denver - Los Angeles - Hong Kong - KL - Hong Kong - Paris - Chicago - Denver (or, vice versa - DEN-ORD-CDG-HKG-KUL-HKG-LAX-DEN)

Purchased in the US and starting in Denver, this ticket would cost $3699 plus tax in economy class. However, purchased and starting in Paris, it would cost $800 less, so around $2900 plus tax. So if you could make your way to Europe (anywhere in the Euro zone - same prices) and start the travel there, you could travel to KL, visit your family, then fly home to Denver, but treat Denver as a "stopover" until your next trip to Asia, which you start by "finishing" the original ticket in Paris, then start another one. Rinse and repeat.

Now, on the surface that doesn't sound like a huge cost savings compared to prices you could buy over the counter today, and even less a savings if you have to shell out $$ to get to some "cheap" starting place like France. (Of course if you have some FF miles, you could use those to get to Europe to start.)

BUT, here's the catch. Using the ticket I describe above, you have one year to complete the trip, and you have up to 16 flight segments you can use in the process, six of which can be within North America (including Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico and Canada.)

So in addition to getting to and from KL to see family, you could also use the same ticket for whatever additional travel - within North America, within Europe or Asia - you want. So visit your folks in KL, come back to Denver, then maybe go on holiday to Alaska, or the Caribbean. Or take business trips to New York or... anywhere. No additional charge (and no charges for checked baggage - the RTW tickets are inclusive of bag fees.)

If you want to change dates, date changes are free. If you want to change the overall route, you can change the sequence of flights, or the cities visited, etc., for $125 (any number of changes at once).

In addition, you'd earn frequent flyer mileage (usually at acceptable rates) for the flights, and depending on your route, could probably achieve elite status with a participating airline in the process, making life simpler (and cheaper) going forward - no bag fees, "free" preferred seating, fast-track check-in, etc.

So anyway, this would require a couple of things, most immediately that you start thinking of travel as a "strategic plan" part of your life. Think in terms of one- or two-years' travel wishes, and see if it might make sense both financially and in terms of where you want to go.

For more information on RTW or similar products, you might want to visit the "Global Airline Alliances" boards (all three major alliances offer RTW products, each with its good and bad points) and start the education process. Who knows, you might join the (large, growing) numbers of international frequent flyers who use these terrific products.