I did my CMR's early this year and requal'd using MH business fares to PEK by mid April. Added a QR business class RT for my June trip back to the US. Burned my SWU's with AA's HKG-LAX RT for GF and me in March. I'll end up the year with over 18,000 EQD's and 150k EQM's (GF will have similar numbers, though she missed one of the BKK-KUL-PEK runs.)
Anyone looking for a lower cost alternative run, look at the BA PE ARN fares back to the US for <$700. And, there are cheap positioning fares right now, like <$400. Seems to be higher EQD multiple than the JNB PE run (3.2x vs 2.4x,) but if you need to get it done in one trip, the JNB run looks good, long weekend deal. <$1100 vs apx $1800.
Last edited by rbAA; Aug 21, 2017 at 6:46 pm