Mwenenzi

Flights Bali to Asia are cheap and frequent with many carriers. http://www.baliairport.com/flight-st...ls-departures/
Look for an award to SIN or BKK and then buy a cash fares

greg0ire

Also be aware of the devaluation coming on March 22nd.

moa999

Not much you can do for travel in May 2017

greg0ire

Agreed however when one says they have enough miles for travel that may not be enough for May 2017.

rdurlabhji

You can try JL too. May have to split 2 and 2 with JL and CX. Sound advice above to make it to SIN, KUL, CGK, or BKK and buy a cash flight to DPS if availability is scarce.

I think routing through Australia will cost 2 awards.

There are interesting fifth freedom flights that you can do as well. For instance I'm doing KUL-CGK on KLM soon. I think they also offer a SIN-DPS, and usually these are pretty cheap.

Happy

You should do the search on BA site first.

Based on the monitoring for the last 3 months, this is how I find.

You would not find anything on LAN for JFK-SCL or MIA-SCL. LAN deliberately put these into married segments with ZCO for the MIA-SCL flight, but at least you could find J if you include ZCO on your itinerary (just ditch it once you arrive SCL). For JFK-SCL, the married segment is PMC but there is 0 J availability just so you know.

As for TAM, I would NOT book any award on TAM flights - someone has reported TAM refuses to confirm his ticketed AA award flights - told him those are standby only. AA of course said it should not be, but even an AA supervisor was told flat out by TAM that this would be standby only. I forgot on which thread this is reported - either it is on its own thread or on the LAN award thread. Those who are interested can do search to find it. I stopped following the development but as a couple weeks ago TAM still would not budge and insist that the passenger is on standby.

Happy

You do know AA will raise miles required after March 21? For the US-Asia2 currently is 55K one way. Starting March 22 it will be 70K one way.

Not hard to find 4 business seats TPAC. CX routinely release 5 business seats on the LAX-HKG route, but you need to book early. Both LAX and JFK routinely see 5 J seats available on 3 out of 4 daily flights.

HKG-DPS might actually be the segment you may need to split your party into 2 and fly on different flights. So as the ATL to CX US gateways.

jchanpaper

Oh I would definitely try my best to be in J as it will be a super long trip so any additional comfort will be more than welcome

timster65

Do you know if Japan Airlines release 4 business class seats with connection to DPS? I've read some reviews and it seems like Japan Airlines might have as good or even better business class experience than Cathay Pacific. Would you agree?

susiesan

Fly on JL via NRT to CGK Jakarta. Buy a cheap ticket CGK-DPS Bali on a local carrier. That's what I did in 2013.

Happy

delete. wrong thread.

sard

After reading your recommendations and doing some searches, I'm thinking these are good:
JL - JFK-NRT-PVG for 35k
JL - PVG-NRT-PVG for 35k

issue is, I have 43k miles and my wife has 17k miles.
I can get 3k more miles from e-rewards, but that still leaves me 7k short.
I can buy 7k miles for $200 from aa.com

Any other options? (let me search for a "keeping miles" thread)

Thanks!

edit - just saw a thread about converting hotel points into miles.
I have a ton of hilton and marriott points, so that is a good option, just not sure how long it takes to convert

guv1976

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How do you plan to use your wife's miles? AA charges a fee to transfer miles from one account to another, and 17K is not enough for even a one-way between the U.S. and Asia.

24left

Apologies if I missed the answers in my reading of the various Help - AA Award threads.

I'm looking to book just a one-way from SIN-HKG. I have enough miles for J or F. It would be on CX and I understand from the instructions that if awards are for a OW partner, I have to call it in.

If I've missed something or if you can offer a suggestion when dealing with the AAgent, much appreciated. TIA.
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FlyingDoctorwu

I'm looking to book an award ex-EU to South Africa. Am I correct in reading the chart that it is 37,500 miles each way in C? Also, is travel to Africa allowed via the Middle East; i.e. can I book via EY or QR?

Thanks
FDW