Originally Posted by
londonba2014
A bit of a random one and I was wondering if any people on the EK forum might have any suggestions/ideas. Over Christmas I'm going to be booking some trips for next year and something that I'm really keen to try out is Emirates A380 First Class.
I'd only be able to do this one way and have only got just over 20,000 Skywards miles - so would buy a business class ticket and upgrade.
I was wondering if people had any ideas on which routes I could take doing this - that would give me the best opportunity to experience first class while being within the 20,000 or so mile budget - the only route that springs to mind is Sydney - Christchurch; but with the recent Trans-Tasman cuts - do people reckon it'd still be operating with an A380 in around Nov 2018?
Really grateful to get any suggestions you might have - not overly bothered about which route/ location as can plan a trip around it.
Thanks!
I don't know how many miles are required off-hand but one I did on a low miles budget was HKG-BKK, I used 39k miles for an outright redemption, upgrade is likely to be around 20kish. Other 5th freedom routes or shorter routes might also work, but not sure how many are operated by an A380, like CMB-SIN, which is a 77W if I'm not mistaken.