Wow its awesome how many replies there have been here and how alive the discussion is
I have been almost a week without internet at home and when checking back here I saw all these messages and posts, very cool
I gave up my plan on flying 76 segments with JAL Domestic as first intended. I know that till the end of my tracking period I will have at least 2 more business flights with AY from Asia to Europe which will bring me each 44000 with the Silver bonus which i reach soon. I would have never thought to look for ICN to HEL instead of KIX to HEL in Business. Prices are like 2000 $ higher almost from Japan cause of the JV and this is crazy. From KIX I can get easy and cheap to ICN without any problems
One thing I saw though raises a question for me. I saw that the flights from KIX to ICN with JAL are operated by Korean Air and they are Skyteam. So if I book the flight with JAL but they put me on a Korea Air plane, do I get the OW miles then ?