UA: IAH-SIN under $900 for Jan & Feb 2015 (over 20K miles)
 

This MR is cheaper than I have seem this year by almost $100 for over 20K and will be the last change for MR before the new system for UA started on 3/1/2015.:D

Holy crap, it's pricing as low as $823 RT. There are some painful routing options for $840 that get just over 21,100 miles (3.97 c/m).

ETA: Before I could book, mid-January flight options rose to $898 through NRT only. Booked.

Might still be possible to route through SIN to DPS for an even lower price.

Was able to get $640 IAH-NRT-SIN-DPS-SIN-HKG-ORD-IAH (DPS segments non-earning on Jetstar).

See this thread: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/milea...q-sin-dps.html

RE: IAH to DPS
 

How you can get such low price (+/- $650) from IAH-DPS? I have try using UA website & they come up almost twice as much in Jan or Feb next year. The IAH-SIN still around $850 in UA website.:)

Itinerary
Houston (IAH) to Singapore (SIN) - Wed, Jan 28
United Houston (IAH) to Tokyo (NRT) - Wed, Jan 28
United 7 Dep: 10:40AM Arr: 3:50PM 14h 10m Boeing 777 Economy (K)

Layover in NRT Thu, Jan 29 2h 15m

United Tokyo (NRT) to Singapore (SIN) - Thu, Jan 29
United 803 Dep: 6:05PM Arr: 12:45AM 7h 40m Boeing 777 Economy (K)

Fri, Jan 30

Singapore (SIN) to Houston (IAH) - Fri, Jan 30
United Singapore (SIN) to Tokyo (NRT) - Fri, Jan 30
United 804 Dep: 7:00AM Arr: 2:40PM 6h 40m Boeing 777 Economy (K)

Layover in NRT 3h 40m

United Tokyo (NRT) to San Francisco (SFO) - Fri, Jan 30
United 838 Dep: 6:20PM Arr: 10:35AM 9h 15m Boeing 747 Economy (K)

Layover in SFO 1h 25m

United San Francisco (SFO) to Houston (IAH) - Fri, Jan 30
United 1604 Dep: 12:00PM Arr: 5:43PM 3h 43m Boeing 757 Economy (K)


Cost per passenger (including taxes & fees) $858.80
Total cost for 1 passenger $858.80

Just locked up IAH-IAD-SIN and return for $894 @ 4.14cpm.

Going out on the 22nd and returning 26th Jan, so I have a couple of short nights in SIN.

Have combined it as a side trip to LHR-GIG-IAH (stopover)-LHR for a 41,270 trip over 8 days and still comes out at only 4.8cpm, with the LHR-GIG rtn upgradable with two GPU's being a V fare.

Details of the EU cities to GIG fare here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/milea...-city-bkg.html

Flight 1: Boston – Tokyo
Thu, Jan 15

6:47 am – 8:37 am
Boston – Chicago · BOS–ORD
United 1037 · Economy class · Boeing 737
2h 50m
Layover in Chicago ORD2h 08m

10:45 am – 3:00 pm+1
Chicago – Tokyo · ORD–NRT
ANA 11 · Economy class · Boeing 777
13h 15m
Flight 2: Tokyo – Singapore
Fri, Jan 16

6:05 pm – 12:45 am+1
Tokyo – Singapore · NRT–SIN
United 803 · Economy class · Boeing 777
7h 40m
Flight 3: Kuala Lumpur – Tokyo
Wed, Jan 21

9:15 am – 1:00 pm
Kuala Lumpur – Hong Kong · KUL–HKG
Malaysia 72 · Economy class · Boeing 777
3h 45m
Layover in Hong Kong HKG2h 20m

3:20 pm – 8:15 pm
Hong Kong – Tokyo · HKG–NRT
ANA 910 · Economy class · Boeing 767
Operated by Air Japan
3h 55m
Flight 4: Tokyo – Boston
Thu, Jan 22

5:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Tokyo – Houston · NRT–IAH
United 6 · Economy class · Boeing 777
Overnight flight
11h 45m
Layover in Houston IAH2h 14m

3:59 pm – 8:37 pm
Houston – Boston · IAH–BOS
United 1578 · Economy class · Boeing 737
3h 38

Total price: $797. Only non-earning leg is the KUL-HKG

UA: IAH-SIN under $900 for Jan & Feb 2015 (over 20K miles)
 

"Only non earning leg SIN to HKG"

I take it that you mean KUL to HKG rather than SIN to HKG, and that you're travelling SIN to KUL under your own steam.

Yep. Good catch.

Sounds good but you should be aware that there are people on other threads who can do that exact trip for less than € 200. There is a FT prohibition on being more specific. It is a bit tough to break into that crowd but I have been able to make a couple of very good and helpful friends there.

Eventually booked
IAH - IAD- NRT - SIN (with UA803 as two segments) 1/22
SIN - IAD - IAD 1/26

Decided to split UA803 because I couldn't select a seat NRT-SIN when booked as IAD-SIN. I was surprised that it resulted in 486 miles extra as well (10081 miles instead of 9595 awarded by UA for IAD-SIN), and $10 cheaper than originally quoted. Not as painful as the OP suggested with 777's almost all the way.

Took the final tally to $875 for 22,056 miles $3.97cpm.

Well March 1 earning miles on cheap tickets really is dead. My wife and I have been looking to take an Asia trip on the cheap and had to do it over spring break in March so we jumped on this fare deal (added in a HKG stopover for $100). Doesn't bother me as this trip isn't about earning miles, but wow, haha. At least I'll make up award mile on my ~$2,200 economy tix to Europe.

Comparison (as UA Plat):
If earning on miles: 35,214
Now using dollars: ~7,200
PQMs still 20,213 though

IAH-(NRT)-SIN/SIN-HKG/HKG-(SFO)-IAH

Yep. One more reason why I am no longer flying UA that much.

+1 ^ And exactly why I left them all together.