jiaogulan

ATL-DTW-PVG-BKK, including A350 D1 Suites on DTW-PVG and of course PVG-BKK on China Eastern for 105K miles. It's a lot of points for Business class, but I had some Delta points to burn, and my options with United and AA points were unfortunately awful. Excited to try D1 Suites.

I could have done ATL-PVG-BKK on a different day (less desirable) in the old B772 from ATL-PVG for 80K miles, but I value doing the long flights in a B787/A350 and this B772 from ATL-PVG would not have D1 Suites.

CMK10

KIX-ICN-JFK on Korean Business for 85,000 miles for next April. I could have also done China Eastern or China Southern but I'm a bit leery of both airlines and I didn't want long connections. Annoyingly I'll have to buy my own ticket from NYC-RDU the next day but I'm still reasonably happy with this.

mattp1987

Booked 4 J seats on JFK-FRA. In-laws are flying DCA-JFK-FRA. I booked that for them using Chase points transferred to AF (62.5k per person). Booked the wife and I on SAT-JFK-FRA for 70k SkyMiles each. I was actually able to get F on the connecting flights too which is the part that's somewhat surprising.

wco81

Were you able to see inventory on AF before transferring the points?

Did you get BEST cabin (1-2-1)?

flyerCO

Um, AF doesn't fly JFK-FRA, DL does, so no BEST seating to worry about.

wco81

Oh so he used Chase UP points on AF miles and used AF: Miles on a DL flight?

Is there some advantage in doing it that way?

mattp1987

I called AF and put the DCA-JFK-FRA flights for that reservation on hold. I then purchased the SAT-JFK-FRA flights with my SkyMiles. I logged into my Chase account and transferred 125k points to AF which showed up as soon as I logged out and logged back in to my Flying Blue account. Finally, I called AF back to confirm those flights.

Correct, all flights are DL metal. JFK-FRA is on a 763.

Correct, I only have ~200k SkyPesos so could only book 2 passengers using DL miles. So I transferred some Chase UR points to AF to book the other two passengers. There's no real "advantage" per se unless you're Chase-rich and DL-poor like I was.

I also considered booking them IAD-FRA on LH metal using Chase points transferred to LH, but they preferred RIC or DCA and this way we're all on the same flight (and it saved me 15k miles since UA charges 70k/person for partners vs 62.5k that I paid).

flyerCO

105k miles and $19 in taxes.

SAT(DL)-LAX(AZ)-FCO(AZ)-JNB all in J. AZ just started flying to JNB. Was rebooked due to schedule change from SAT-LAX-AMS-JNB with SAT-LAX-AMS on DL and AMS-JNB on KL.

Depart Dec 26th, arrive morning Dec 28th.

MotelRomeo

180k miles + $50 in taxes

SFO - LAX - HND
HND - MSP - CLT

Shocked I was able to find low level awards to Tokyo for both directions on DL metal. Going to be my first time visiting Tokyo.

CMK10

I actually don't think that's the low level. I believe 170K (85k x 2) is low level to Asia now.

btonkid12345

80K one ways in J to Asia as the low level are no more? When did that change?

flyerCO

They recently upped all their awards.

Theville

This is the damage I managed to do this year. Everything was booked for 2 people but I am showing the numbers per ticket below (cost for 1 person)

60k + 8800JPY (~$80) in J: NRT - > MNL (DL) & MNL -> PVG -> NRT (MU)
35k + 5220JPY (~$50) in Y: NRT -> DPS -> SYD (GA)
65k + $146 in J: AKL -> PVG -> NRT (MU)
80k + 28000KRW (~$25) in J: ICN -> CDG (AF)
Couldn't get the non-stop out of NRT so I am positioning on Ethiopian for $95. Also returning AMS->SVO->NRT (SU) for ~$400

rts123

BOS-MSP-PHX-MSP-BOS on a Thursday - Monday in February for 27K miles.

That's about as good as I've seen for this route recently. It can be done for 23K but not on days that work for me. The extra 4K miles are well worth it to get away from winter for a few days.

DLBIZTRAVELER

Just booked the following award tickets for September - SFO to CNS (via LAX and SYD) for 40,000. And SYD-BOS (via LAX) for 40,000. Good values, both.