DFW to Phuket Help
May 15, 2005 | 8:25 pm
#1
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DFW to Phuket Help
I've got a friend who is taking a construction manager job in Phuket in the next few months. My wife and I would like to go see him sometime in the next year or so. Also interested in stopping in either Hawaii, Tahiti or Australia. We both have a couple thousand AAdvantage miles, and are looking for carrier, itinerary help with our routing. Any advice and info would be appreciated.
May 15, 2005 | 10:48 pm
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Your best bet would be to use one of the OW mileage awards which allows you to use AA + at least 2 other OW carriers.
Some bad news unfortunately: Not really possible to get to Tahiti without paying a lot of miles for backtracking, assuming QF flies there using its own metal. HKT is not served by a OW carrier so you'd have to get to BKK and pick up a flight from there (quite cheap). You can go U.S.-HNL-SYD/BNE-BKK-HKG-U.S. or more. Just depends on how many miles your award permits you to travel.
Some bad news unfortunately: Not really possible to get to Tahiti without paying a lot of miles for backtracking, assuming QF flies there using its own metal. HKT is not served by a OW carrier so you'd have to get to BKK and pick up a flight from there (quite cheap). You can go U.S.-HNL-SYD/BNE-BKK-HKG-U.S. or more. Just depends on how many miles your award permits you to travel.
May 16, 2005 | 9:45 am
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Location: Austin, TX -- AA Life Platinum; QF Life Silver; UA Silver
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Actually you could do PPT as part of a Oneworld award; since the distance is only calculated from stopover points, you could do:
DFW-LAX-HKG-BKK (as close as you can get to HKT on oneworld metal).
BKK-SYD-SCL-PPT
PPT-SCL-DFW
for 120k each in economy or 150k in biz class
Or Australia:
DFW-LAX-HKG-BKK
BKK-SYD
SYD-LAX-DFW
also for 120k/150k
Hawaii would be slightly cheaper at 100k econ/130k business
DFW-LAX-HKG-BKK
BKK-SYD-HNL
HNL-DFW
DFW-LAX-HKG-BKK (as close as you can get to HKT on oneworld metal).
BKK-SYD-SCL-PPT
PPT-SCL-DFW
for 120k each in economy or 150k in biz class
Or Australia:
DFW-LAX-HKG-BKK
BKK-SYD
SYD-LAX-DFW
also for 120k/150k
Hawaii would be slightly cheaper at 100k econ/130k business
DFW-LAX-HKG-BKK
BKK-SYD-HNL
HNL-DFW