Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
I've actually been idly considering a "RTW" that's cobbled together from other awards. Not all of it is in F, but it is interesting in that it's not a huge sum of miles.
One-way West Coast USA-Hawaii: 12.5K BA miles in Y on AS or AA.
SEA/PDX/SJC/OAK/SAN/LAX-HNL/OGG/KOA/LIH
(optional: intra-HI flights for 5K US/UA/AA miles)
One-way Hawaii-SE Asia in F: 50K UA miles
HNL-NRT(UA)-BKK(TG)
Open-jaw US SE Asia redemption in C: 30K US miles:
BKK-DPS(destination)-SIN-BLR
One-way AA India/Middle East-Europe redemption in F: 40K AA miles
BLR-LHR in BA F or BLR-AUH-LHR/CDG/FCO in EY F
One way BA redemption in on EC (OpenSkies) Premium Economy (which is really a very nice recliner, used to be Biz Seat, is now Prem Plus): 30K BA miles
ORY-EWR in EC Y+
And to finish it off, one NYC->West Coast on AA/BA/AS/DL, 12.5K miles in Y.
175K miles total (but spread out over a variety of sources), stops in Hawaii, SE Asia, India, Europe and NYC. And all easily done with some credit card churning...
I appreciate your effort, but I have been calculating how ridiculous of a trip I can get with 110k AA miles on an around the world ticket and I can go "everywhere" you can basically on the same ticket.
ORD - SFO - HNL - HND - HKG - BKK - and you can just keep working your way across the glove so long as your connections don't take you all over the place and still keep it in the like 110k business category. I am trying to figure out how to get to DXB but AA's connections to DXB kinda suck.