Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Since you mention the (Delta) Reserve card from AmEx, I'm wondering whether you have a Delta AmEx Plat credit card or the more expensive unaffiliated regular AmEx charge card? They're very different. You need the NON-Delta card to use IAP to save on premium cabin fares (IME typically about 15% but it varies).
ADDED: I saw your post about the $10K and $15K fares. A RT ticket would be much cheaper. If you're paying with money, do not buy two one-way tickets for international travel. Many airline programs price OW award tickets to be half as many miles as RT, but doing this when you're using money forces the ticket into an extremely high fare class.
Not sure about the card stuff -unless your referring to someone else's comment - all I've got is a chase sapphire card. In regards to round trip - I looked at multi destination (fly into bangkok - fly back out of manilla) and that seems to be roughly the same price as I've seen for roundtrip to bangkok when doing google flights to get estimates. Prices have jumped up and down by about 3k with the flight I'm tracking currently. They are higher then I'd like them to be at this moment, but they might drop back down again. I'm still waiting on figuring out how flexible our work is going to be for a trip of this length. Might have to settle for doing less over a two week trip.