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Originally Posted by concordian
I redeemed for a business class flight from SFO-HYD last year on Etihad. I flew out of Chicago and came back via New York. Getting 3 award seats in Business might be the biggest challenge. All the best.
If you need to make the trip again in Business Class from the West Coast, you can actually save 5,000 AA miles by routing via the Pacific on a distance-based "Explorer" award. SFO-HKG-HYD-HKG-HND-SFO can be had for 130,000 AA miles in J class. And you could even have en-route stopovers, if desired.