Originally Posted by
francophile
You should consider using a DL Skymiles award. It costs only 25,000 miles for a round trip ticket from South Korea/Japan to VVO in economy class and only 30,000 miles for a business class ticket.
Perhaps, you can buy a ticket from AKL to ICN/NRT/KIX and then redeem an award to VVO from ICN/NRT/KIX
Yeah I know about the 30k biz awards, but the inability to change dates after travel has started is a killer. Otherwise it's a super bargain.