Originally Posted by
InsaneTravel
I thought that once you landed in any other zone (In your example Asia 1) the points required would be for that zone. Did I get that wrong?
You are correct. (And in my post I said "might" not cost you any more points.

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OP is looking for F or J. So in my partly lazy post I assumed that F seats might not carry much if any points differential regardless of direction travelled.