Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
You are being extremely optimistic (being polite)
Do you know the difference USA domestic first and long haul international business/first class?
The number of airlines and routes having first class long haul is decreasing.
Start small and work on it for few years
It will not take a few years for him to redeem one RT ticket from LAX to NRT. I've accumulated the following points in the past 3 months:
70k Starwood
76k UR (50k more if my Ink+ ever goes from pending to accepted
85k MR
130k TYP
One RT ticket on Krisflyer will take 160k that he can take from any of those transfer partners. His only problem then is the waitlist, and if he has an extremely flexible schedule, that's not exactly a problem.