<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mileagerunner:
Why not try to book a 90K biz award from LAX to HKG on AA/JL, using HNL as your gateway city on the outbound and LAX on the return?</font>
I'm afraid that won't work.
JL won't permit it unless you claim 2 separate awards. JL divides its route areas into "zones" for the purpose of award tickets with AA. Hawaii is in a different "zone" than continental US, therefore you can't count it as the "gateway".
An oneWorld award would make it worse, because CX and QF are the only oneWorld partners in Asia and neither of them fly HNL-HKG.
[This message has been edited by Plato90s (edited 12-21-2002).]