Originally Posted by RustyC
I really have my eye on that Mongolia one. Use 60K NW miles and a MULTI-CITY on NW to stop over in ICN on a trip somewhere else (like BKK), see ICN a couple of days and then use 30K KE miles for Ulan Bataar (don't even know the airport code). Would almost have to be summer to do it, and would take some research. Would be great to see if the Mongolian barbecue there is like that in some places in the U.S.
I used miles last year to book my flights to/from Mongolia: BA miles to go PHL-ORD-NRT on AA, then DL miles to go NRT-ICN-ULN on Korean Air. I even did the whole trip in First (on AA) and Business (on KL, at least for the NRT-ICN segment where it actually exists). I think the whole thing cost 180,000 miles.
One danger of booking the very remote trip using miles screwed me up massively. After three weeks in Mongolia, the very last piece of the trip was a flight on Aero Mongolia from the delightfully named town of Mőrőn back to ULN so I could catch my KL flight out. That flight was six hours late (VERY long story), I missed the connection, and proceeded to miss all of my other connections as well. Given that both FF tickets were on partner awards, and that I had no possibility to call the airlines before I missed all the flights, I was pretty much beyond help. Mongolia is barely connected to the rest of the world by air--and most of the flights out are to countries that I would have needed an advance visa for (China and Russia). It took every trick I could possibly pull out of the bag, and about $2600, to get home...in Y.
