Originally Posted by t1nt1n
I'm thinking something along the lines of:
1. US-SIN (e.g., EWR-SIN, LAX-SIN, SFO-HKG-SIN) - award ticket
2. SIN-SOC-SIN (paid as SilkAir doesn't qualify for *A award)
3. SIN-SYD - award ticket
4. SYD-SIN-US - award ticket
Assuming that is allowable, the return on #4 doesn't have to be SQ. So .. to get "creative", what are the nice routes to look for on the way back? I'm guessing it's just going to be a toss-up between SQ and NH?
Please Post what they eventually allow you to do, I was kicking around the same SFO-SYD-SIN-SFO possibility. However, I concluded that's not considered a " Most direct routing?"
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