Originally Posted by
ContinentalFan
From LAX, the only decent mileage runs (3 cpm) that don’t involve an overnight, but do require a red eye are trips to Florida (MCO, MIA, FLL, TPA) or Puerto Rico. You’ll find some relatively cheap flights to SIN, NRT and LHR, but recently that’s it. They each require an overnight. SIN requires LAX-DEN-SFO-SIN-SFO-DEN-LAX to get a decent cpm (~4.5 cents). May starting in IAH to SIN would work. The deals, when they happen, are fleeting and not even close to the glory days of 2018 and 2019.
From IAH, SIN is actually really reasonable at $1400 and you get about 12 hours there (enough time for Hainanese Chicken Rice for lunch and Chili Crab for dinner!) and then back. Only concern is PP clearing, even on the legs to/from SFO.
I was doing about 175k BIS in the years leading up to covid... trying to make up for the lost years!