Originally Posted by
eternalX
The only interesting caveat to *A is the 200k RTW award on UA that gives you 35k miles to use on your RTW (and lets us start in SEA, instead of AKL/SYD, which saves me miles elsewhere). I have about 160k miles on UA after blowing 160k this summer to see the WC in MUC. I could most likely get to 400k by Sep 08, based on current travels and CC spending. With that award, I can put together a trip like this:
SEA-NRT-ICN-SIN(side trip to AKL/SYD using AS award on CX)-BKK-xSIN-FRA-JNB-GRU-IAD-SEA. = 33.5k miles
The UA RTW ticket isn't worth much of anything. It is only 5 stopovers, and you have 331 days to complete your travel
after booking (not after you begin travel).
Since you'll need to find award seats on each of your flights, it's a pretty lousy deal if you're trying to book ahead for peace of mind and actually travel close to a full year. Might be worth it if you were going to travel for 6mo...