Originally Posted by
aztimm
Its a little over your budget at $2600, but
this CX JFK-HKG-AKL itinerary would give just over 41k EQM and almost $5500 EQD. If you play around with that, you can add in connections (there was an extra through YVR that I saw).
I've done this a couple times ex-LAX. It's a lo-o-o-n-g pair of flights - but very do-able in PE. Browse the flight times in/out of HKG, and you should be able to put together an itinerary with a 12+ hour layover in HKG - plenty of time to do some sightseeing in HKG.