Originally Posted by iron_mike

so, my wife and i are sitting on a handful of miles that we're looking to burn up. the asia reward will probably be out of reach, for her, since she's ~105000 right now. by xmas she might be up to 145 000. i'm at 169 000.

i'm wary of the mini-rtws, because they seem to keep going up in price and conditions, so we've just been looking at straight-up long-haul first instead. but europe-asia return in first seems to come in at 145000.

we're based in ZRH, so a nice bonus is we avoid AC metal (and taxes!). i was thinking ZRH - somewhere far away, in asia - NRT, BKK? we're keen to go somewhere fun (i've traveled lots in asia), but also obviously to maximize the joy of getting there, too.

swiss and thai seem like awesome first class products (and lounges).

what are your ideas?

-mike