The data comes from Expertflyer and I just doublechecked, and can't find any -sky3 in business class for less than ~7000 USD. Don't why this is, if you manage to buy a -SKY ticket in IST cheaper, let me know!

Well, I'd say something mean about CO on this point, but I don't think it would do any good. :) CO BF is decent, but I wouldn't rank it better than NW A330 Biz, and worse than KE flights.

Just from the posts on this board, there are some small differences between the Skyteam RTW reward. One instance is DL flyers being able to use AS as a domestic connector, where NW wouldn't allow it at all.

I do consider the 220k RTW award to be the best around, for Skyteam. In fact, I measure my current ff balance in multiples of this reward. IE hey, I've 3 three RTWs in my account! :)

I definitely agree that the 220K is the best deal (I'm at 2+ and growing), and that CO BF isn't worth the extra miles. In my case, it was my honeymoon and we wanted the non-stop NYC-NRT. Next time we'll probably one hop that flight and save 120K miles between the two of us.

Hopefully the new spouse came with their own frequent flyer miles! Or you at least got a mileage prenup! ;)

No pre-nup, but I control her FF account, not the other way around, so I'm not too worried :cool:

RTW flight question
 

I have a scheduled reward RTW trip late this year with lots of connecting in and out of ICN with Korean Air. One set being BKK-ICN-BOM.
Can anyone tell me what would happen if I skipped that commotion and took a direct flight from BKK to BOM. I am continuing on with AF from BOM.
It would seem reasonable that Korean would be happy to have their seats back but is that enough?

It depends on the FFP that issued your reward RTW, some allow changes, some don't. If changes are not allowed and you skip some segments, the rest of the trip will be cancelled.

They'd probably cancel it. If you used a NWA award, you should be able to change it for free since you're a Plat. I don't think that NWA allows open jaws on their RTW awards.

Re the dropping of legs on an award RTW
I dont know if it makes any difference but it is a paper ticket so the change would be me removing a two tickets on Korean and showing up for the next on AF.
I know they wont allow open jaw.
It ended up this way because we wanted to go to India.

NW really doesn't allow surface segments? That's very surprising.

I wouldn't risk just pulling the paper coupons out and hoping that no one notices when you try to board again in BOM; that could be an expensive experiment.

To be honest, I am a bit lazy at the moment... But, is it possible to do a Skyteam RTW without using an airport in the USA?
Like flying via Canada or Mexico or South America?

via South America - no
via Mexico - yes, using the new AM flight MEX-TIJ-NRT
via Canada - I'm sure there are options (KE?)

Why not South America? I've flown MXP-EZE on AZ, I'd think there would another destination ex-USA to go to.

I guess this could be combined with EZE-MEX-TIJ-NRT, but otherwise I don't think that you can get away from S. America without heading via the USA. So I guess possible, but not many options? Maybe jump from MEX up to YVR, too and then on to ICN (3x weekly).

Going the other direction (ie to Europe) there are a fair number of options from Central and South America on KL/AF/AZ, so that isn't hard at all.

TATL (e.g., EZE-MXP - I've flown that, too) is OK, it's Trans-Pacific that is the problem. The only options are LAN or AR and neither is in SkyTeam.