Originally Posted by
littlevoices
Out of interest, as I've been considering it, is there any reason you didn't do a oneworld RTW ticket from Hong Kong, is it just much more expensive than BKK? Or you did a redemption RTW (wow at finding availability!). I have presumed I need to pay $$$ to find enough business class availability.
I'm currently pondering a summer holiday (so not urgent) using a RTW ticket along the lines of HKG-America-Europe-Thailand // Thailand - Singapore (work a bit) - HKG, and due to the multiple destinations the RTW ticket seems to be lower risk and more flexible. The BKK-SIN-HKG route is a bit of a pain (has to go via KUL with MH), but keeps it all on one ticket.
Moondog is correct. No one World flight redemption, and my preferred routing was the round the world award which needed to stop and start in the same place.
Even if I didn't want an around the world, could not book a oneworld that connected anywhere for onward to the US. Could book Japan one day before on JL, but not allowed to transfer overnight or between HND and NRT at the moment. BKK allows the test and go (can safely ignore the scarmongering a few posts back, it was lovely, and they are happy to have people in the country. Maybe just compared to the misery in HK.
I did HKG-BKK revenue Thai Airways (3x/week currently, Emirates also has flights) then RTW award BKK--BKK . Did it by finding avail on BA, checking on asiamiles.com, having whole itn with flight numbers, and backups for each leg, kept to the rules (esp the 2 airlines only, without that one I could have done so much more), and chatting but did it and got 2 tickets for 360k