Originally Posted by ewrfox
I don't know where you are in Ca, but have you looked into AI LAX-BOM? And where in India is your wife flying to? And what date are you looking at going in Mid Jan?
If you can give some info, I can look into it...

Good grief. At least I left out half the info. She would be flying BOM-SFO. I will check on flights to LAX; that makes a lot of sense.
Originally Posted by guwonder
British Airways has one-way awards from LA to HKG to India for 40k miles in coach and 80k in business; it's on Cathay Pacific. If she is not Indian, then she may have to show proof of onward travel from India -- in which case, a fully refundable onward ticket back to the US or an award ticket that can be redeposited for a "reasonable" fee, may be helpful.
So, if I understand this correctly, I would need BA miles to book this? Maybe I can work on that.
Thanks to both of you.