Sorry, I should have said I am lowly Silver with DL and I need another 17k miles to keep status through 16. I unfortunately have never played the credit card game before even though I do have a Plat card thru Amex and DL. I've only spent to date a little over $10k with the card and do not think that I can attain the $25k limit to receive the 10,000 MQM's.

This total trip would be 23,350 miles or so. What I realistically should do is cut out the ANC portion to just make the trip MSP to JFK to NRT to SIN to NRT to MSP and spend a extra day in SIN if the value of the ticket doesn't go up a fair amount.

As you all can see this is all in coach. If I were to fly EC the entire trip what would that add to the cost of this trip?

My plan for showering was use the DL lounge in NRT and SIN if possible. In a perfect world I'd hotel it at a HLT property nearby.