Originally Posted by
therossinator
In terms of getting from AUK to GUM you will obviously transfer in SIN if you're in Suites. If you stop there (South Asia as defined by the award chart), you're paying 65,000 miles for your F seat.
But if you go to Guam, you will fly up to 7 more hours in F or J to either Japan (various cities), Hong Kong, or Manila before hopping on United metal to Guam and you end up paying only 60,000 miles.
Not bad, huh?
I'm all for flying SQ, but having to go to Alakanuk to start sounds miserable.