Originally Posted by DFW Consultant
Thanks for the correction on the AUK vs. AKL certainly a typo on my part but I fixed it now.
No problem. Not really a big deal, but it made the itinerary go from 40-something thousand miles to 30-something thousand.
I just noticed I could pick up an extra segment if I start in BCN. Pretty sure I can pick up a cheap flight from AMS-BCN.
There's a few things you could do to *possibly* get it under the 35000 threshold. Although not enough to do biz class for the same price, you could maybe save a few miles. With the lower threshold, you're looking at 30k more per ticket for biz class. You could buy the 60k miles for about $1500 if you so desired.
This itinerary gets you slightly under 35k, though it's slight and the mileage calculations do vary.
BCN-CPT-JNB-DEL-HKG-PEK-NRT-CNS-SYD-AKL-SCL-GRU-DFW
If push came to shove, you could just go back to MIA and buy a ticket home, which should give more than enough of a cushion. I did take off SIN to do this routing, otherwise, it contains all your stops. The actual flown itinerary would be
bcn-lhr-cpt-jnb-lhr-del-hkg-pek-hkg-nrt-hkg-cns-syd-akl-scl-gru-dfw
A couple of those routes are high demand, so flexibility will serve you well.