Originally Posted by
Adam1222
I think your best bet will be to narrow down dates and destinations, and see what's available. Theoretically, the parameters you've provided leave thousands of combinations. As for "exciting" airlines, I'm not sure what you mean. Depending where in Asia you're going, there are reward routings with legs on pretty much every partner- including routings via Europe. You could do, for example, JFK-CDG-HAN with the second leg on Vietnam Airlines. For planning purposes, though, youre going to have to decide whether novelty of an airline, costs, date, or destination are the most important option.
Thank you. Yes, fair feedback about trying to narrow in as there are too many options. We have narrowed in on likely spending the bulk of the time in Thailand or Bali likely with a 1-2 days in Hong Kong to take the kids to Disney there. That said, I'm just looking for good options to get/come back from the general Asia/SE Asia region. Once there, shorter connecting flights to our final destination are fine. When I say 'exciting,' I'm just looking to get good value out of the Skymiles and have a memorable and enjoyable experience at the airport and with the hard and soft product. We've been fortunate to have great redemptions on Cathay, Japan and Qatar, so unfortunately in this case, we've had a taste of some of the best which I realize will be hard to match in this case.