Originally Posted by
travelbugging
Just wanted to update that Maldives / MLE is considered part of Asia for Cathay Pacific via Alaska Air Mileage Plan award booking purposes; no HUCA necessary as the agent was able to book the flights I saw on Qantas and miles required matched
this chart
That’s pretty dumb because HKG-MLE is a bigger distance than HKG-DEL, but costs less miles. If AS wants to be idiots about the award chart and consider someplace west of India to be in the same zone as Thailand... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
AS considers USA-NRT-DEL to cost less than USA-NRT-BKK on JL. I guess they don’t have that side of the world squared away yet. US was pretty famous for having messed up awards you could milk too. OK...