Originally Posted by
DCAhome
This is a bit off topic, but for next year (2019) I've booked partner tickets to SIN to help get status. Why partner? Well, with AF in Z, $3400 gets me 8,400 MQD and almost 59,000 RDM. (Which is in addition to the 31,500 MQM.) Routing is IAD-CDG-SIN-CDG-IAD. 1/1/19 departure with a 1/5/19 return.
I am usually departing from the West Coast (never as a MR), but have been considering this routing as well since I noticed the fares to get to SIN aren't too bad.