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Old Oct 9, 2024 | 4:43 pm
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Originally Posted by moretimeoffguy
I snagged the flight from JFK to HKG. Guess I have 24 hours to cancel. Anyone know if that's a true 24 hours or Midnight the next day? Unfortunately, the 4.5K RDU to JFK segment went up to 9K. 1st class inventory available only; Economy was sold out. Snagged that too.
Did you book your stopover, too? I saw the October 27th availability. The next availability from JFK is November 10th onward.

There is availability before November 10th from ORD. An RDU-ORD award is also 4.5K.

I don't know how long you have, but you could see all of your desired locations.

Wild Suggestion:

1 AA RDU-JFK/ORD 4.5K
2 CX JFL/ORD-HKG stopover HKG-BKK 42.5K
3 CX BKK-SIN¹ 5th Freedom 7.5K
4 QF SIN-PER-SYD² 25K PER stopover
5 QF SYD-AKL 7.5K
6 FJ AKL-NAN-LAX/SFO/YVR 37.5K NAN stopover

Total 124.5K

¹ There is availability in Main, PE, and J at 7.5K/10K/15K in November.
² The SIN-PER segment is similar to SEA-JFK in duration & distance; one mile difference. SIN & PER are in the same timezone. The A330 has a 2-4-2 seat configuration, so window or aisle, no middle for the outer pair. QF also utilizes this aircraft on PER-SYD route

If you are short miles AS has an "up to a 60% bonus" throught 10/31/24.

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