Originally Posted by peachman

First of all Thank You for your help.

I was told that Alaska has low award cost and good availability,BUT to my knowledge their
CC only offers 30,000 bonus miles and they only belong to SPG group which only offers
25,000 on their CC. It would take me forever to accrue enough miles even if it only cost
100,000 to Asia in Bus. I am retired and thankfully my overhead is low.

Now are you suggesting that CP is also a candidate if I book direct thru their website
because I am pretty sure they are a partner with Ultimate rewards and it would be easire
for me to accrue UR points ??

I agree about AA. Luckily the trip I took last year I booked with AA before their big increase in award costs. I was lucky enough to get a JapanA FC flight. Great first time
experience in a non US airline FC product. But currently I have been reading their availability for award flights to Asia are hard to find ? Plus I can not understand why they
make you call for flights to Asia when awards to Europe are on their website ?