I hoping you can suggest what would be the best way to utilize my current miles for a trip to MLE, leaving from NYC airports.

I have the following miles:
Delta - 350k - Silver Medallion Status
United - 150k -No status
Virgin - 270k- No Status

Have people found it best to book tickets to Sri Lanka and then take the 1 hr flight to MLE?

I'm sorry if this is the wrong section of the forum to post this as wasn't sure of the right one. I really appreciate all your help / thoughts!!

Are you trying to go coach or business class? How many pax?

An option is NYC-IST-MLE on TK. I just went From SFO, but just as easy NYC-PEK-SIN-MLE on UA/SQ.

If you have any hotel points or programs, I suggest you look at costs for lodging in those islands....very high, points could be useful.

Actually it is as the Mileage Run Disussion forum is for general questions regarding planning, booking & flying Mileage Runs. Since you have question about using miles for award seats I'll move this over to the MilesBuzz forum instead.

Happy travels,

tcook052
Mileage Run Forum Moderator

Use point pros. They are worth every penny imho

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I have the following miles:
Delta - 350k - Silver Medallion Status
United - 150k -No status
Virgin - 270k- No Status

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When do you hope to go? Korean Air using DL SkyMiles from NYC-ICN-MLE should be bookable in the future, but you have to work around blackout dates. Also you can book LAX-CAN-MLE via China Southern using SkyMiles.

Either way, 120k per person in business, plus fees if using China Southern

Thank you for the feedback so far. It would be 2 of us and we were trying to go on business class for the honeymoon flight.

Agreed. There are a lot of great award booking services out there. Check out MileValue for instance.

Everything you need to know is here: http://milesabound.com/destination-g...getting-there/

From NYC with sky miles I'd say Korean air, china southern or Aeroflot are your best bets

+1. There is A LOT of business class availability in CZ for now, and most reviews of the LAX-CAN A380 business class seat are pretty positive. Positioning to LAX might be impossible if you're trying to fit it all into one 120k Delta ticket (per biz class roundtrip ticket); it might be better, especially if for your honeymoon, to splurge for United PS in business JFK-LAX-JFK, which has fairly good advance availability (and IMO is better than Delta's JFK-LAX service). You could even spend some time in LA if you want.

I'd save the money on a booking service here, as this is a fairly simple itinerary. That money is better spent on an expertflyer subscription (or KVS if you're more fluent in travel search tools). However, if you want to do absolutely no work and/or want some creative suggestions on how to really stretch your honeymoon with stopovers/openjaws (e.g., you could use 100k United miles to fly JFK-LAX and back in business, and then 240k Delta miles to fly to Maldives from LAX and back, OR for the same # of miles you could do all of the following in business: JFK-SFO (Enjoy) + SFO-LAX-CAN (STOP)-MLE (ENJOY); MLE-CAN-LAX (Enjoy) + LAX-JFK (END)) then it makes sense. If time is of the essence (don't know when you're going on your honeymoon), then it might be worth it to use a booking service as well.