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Jul 19, 2013, 9:09 pm

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LucyP

Join Date: Jul 2013

Location: RDU

Posts: 20

Quote:

Originally Posted by incognitoMD

I tried SFO-SGN for an award search for June next year, and saw SFO-HKG-SGN both operated by CX. 5 seats available on both segments. Other options possible too. Vietnam falls into Asia2, so it would be 67.5k miles one way, plus a few dollars in taxes, and a $25 phone ticketing fee for non-EXPs as an oneworld/other airline award.

Total miles needed for an oneworld/other airline award is determined by origin and destination city pairs, not the number of flights nor total distance. There are, however, different award types, aka Explorer awards that are distance based.

Thanks so much. That is very, very helpful. So once we've spent the miles for one leg, we can get all the legs for the same price? And that's business class? Sounds almost do-able. Now we just have to get the miles