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Old Oct 19, 2016 | 7:50 am
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Originally Posted by Jish
Thanks Steve!

To clarify - I would be booking the way out and the way home as separate one way awards.

I could do what you say booking JFK-SIN and then the next day grabbing SIN-SYD. The only problem is that it will cost me 50,000 extra points per person approximately

(110,000 + 75,000 vs 137,500)
Sorry - to be clear - I would wait for SIN-SYD to open up and hope that JFK-SIN is still available - I don't think JFK-SIN availability is guaranteed to disappear the first day it becomes available, although I could be wrong.
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