Originally Posted by
DavidinSaipan
Beijing is North Asia, Bangkok is South Asia. IF you can find low award availability (very difficult and limited) it would be 22,500 each way -- but Delta doesn't do one-way tickets. One way or round trip is the same price. This would be 45,000 at best, most likely much higher since "Saver" awards are very limited.
No need to take a 2,000 mile detour to fly DL metal via NRT and cough up more miles. China Southern has plenty of space available on a much more direct routing through CAN. That said, you are correct that it will take at least 45K miles since there is no one way pricing at less than round trip.