You better wear shorts or you'll get weird looks.

Ed Orgeron is like Coach Calipari - I expect additional NCAA sanctions to follow.

I havent taken the time to understand CO rewards on *A. I just pulled up the *A website to search for a flight to USM and the only routing it gave me was via Europe. Will this work on a reward ticket. BTW, there were some great carriers including Thai, Swiss, Lufty, etc...this would be nice.

Yes, you can get to Asia via Europe as long as you return in the same direction (back through Europe).

And you can have a stopover in Europe along the way... :cool:

4 Longhauls in F for 145k is pretty sweet.

Yes.

haha, how did you know?

Unless they've changed it a return the same way might not actually be required. Also, anyone know if it is only for SE Asia or if it includes northen Asia (i.e. Korea/Japan), too?

Not. True.

If you go over via the Atlantic/EU and go home via the Pacific then you get dinged for a RTW. I've done covert checks with about a half dozen different agents on this and they've all, consistently, told me the same thing.

I had EWR-ORD-HKG / HKG-PVG / PVG-NRT-EWR. After I flew the outbound, I was checking online to change the return and co.com offered me several EU connection for PVG-EWR and VS was one of them. ^

This is a real drawback to CO awards. Thankfully, I can use Air Astana Assassin points to route through the secret Soviet lunar base on most of my reward itineraries, without incurring the RTW penalty.

So then the optimum use of miles for a trip to Asia would be US to a Euro gateway city to your Asian destination, with either the outbound or the return containing less than 24 hours in a European gateway of choice (stopover), in addition to using an open jaw on the Asian side of the equation, right?

Yes, except that the stopover can be greater than 24 hours. You can have 1 stopover and 1 open jaw and 1 destination.

And such an itinerary (until the merger or revision) is 145K in F. That's a steal.