Originally Posted by
John Brock
I am thinking about taking the Transiberian Express from Moscow to Beijing. Is there any way I can use my AA miles to get a one-way ticket Beijing-SFO?
Or better, can I open-jaw US-Moscow; BEI-SFO as one award?
I did the Trans-Siberian (St Petersburg-Moscow-Vladivostok) a couple of years ago and I used an open-jaw business class award on Northwest without difficulty.
My first leg was US to Helsinki via NW/KL. I then took the train to St Pertersburg and then onto Moscow where I joined a private train to Vladivostok (wuth several intermediate stops). I Vladivostok I purchased a one-way ticket to SEL and then NW back to the US.
They "priced" the award ticket as 1/2 North America to Europe (40,000 miles) and 1/2 North America to Asia (45,000 miles).
The mileage requirements may have changed, but the principle should still be OK.
By the way, I tried to do a similar thing on AA but they would no do it.
Good luck