Booking Skyteam from SE to US
 

Can someone school me on the best option to book a one-way award tix from SGN to IAH?

Datapoint:
*100k with Skyteam, no status
*65k with Vietnam Airline, no status

Timing is flexible, probably travel sometimes in July. My goal is to minimize points usage so economy is probably okay.

Alternative:
*100k with United
*100k with British Airways.

Thanks in advance.

100k on Skyteam? What airline? Delta? Flying Blue?

Sorry, was too quick and careless with my post.

100k with Delta and 65k with VNA, Gold.

Delta prices one-ways as round-trips, with a phantom return in the same class of service and low/medium/high band. Thus a low coach ticket one-way from Southeast asia region to US-49 could be 80K Delta miles.

http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_...east-asia.html

Lots of Delta SkyMiles carriers for award travel can't be booked online, or can't be searched easily across flexible dates on delta.com.

I believe that SGN-IAH may be one of the rare Asia-US city pairs allowing routing across the Atlantic by virtue of an Air France fare filing. I would look for SGN-CDG-IAH at a coach classic level on the Flying Blue search engine www.airfrance.us and then call Delta to book. I expect the experience will bring incredible frustration.

I think that you may want to use United miles for your one-way ticket. UA allows to book one-way award ticket and their website is more user-friendly. You may be able to book SGN-SIN-DME-IAH with your UA miles.

Thanks all. After 2 days of various workarounds, phone calls, etc..., I've given up on Delta for this award. It's amazing that in 2013, Delta still hasnt managed to come up with a workable website!

It's perfectly working from their perspective :D. So, what carrier did you decide for your booking? Which routes did you decide to take for your trip?

Hey Dalat,

Not a lot of choices as I'm looking to fly in the third week of July or early August so no saver award available on UAL. I have options of flying economy BKK-IAH using United miles and SGN-BKK using my VNA miles. Another option which is attractive at this time is SGN-ICN on I class and then ICN-LAX on O and then get an award ticket LAX-IAH with Delta or BA. Downfall for 2nd option is the 10hr layover in ICN.

I'm all ears for other tips. Cheers.

You may want to consider BR (Eva Air), a new member of *A, from SGN to either SFO/LAX/SEA/JFK (JFK requires long layover & transfers to EWR for IAH segment) and UA to IAH. Their award inventory will not be displaced on UA website. Do you have an UA office in SGN? Do you have a local phone number to book your award ticket? Here is one of the links regarding booking an award ticket on BR with UA miles, http://boardingarea.com/onemileatati...n-eva-airways/

Thanks for the head's up. I haven't flew Eva in almost a decade so overlooked it. Hopefully their Laurel class is better than Asiana? However, the taxes and fees for SGN-LAX is $147 vs. $46 for United....