Aloha! First time posting. I’m Delta GM (might get to Platinum in next two weeks, we’ll see) Anyway, I am hoping to use SkyMiles to book flights from Honolulu to Europe this July. Will be going to Austria and France but doesn’t really matter which airport, dates and order of cities very flexible.

I’ve been searching a bit and it seems it might be better to try and use miles on a partner airline flying through Asia (ICN or NRT or PVG) to Europe rather than flying from HNL through the mainland on DL.

Any thoughts on this? I’m also not sure how easy it would be to book online or if I’ll have to call an agent and walk them through this as they also try to route through the mainland rather than across the dateline.