Is it Possible to Book an Award Ticket from Hawaii to Europe/Asia via "the Long Way"?
Aug 6, 2013, 8:03 am
#16
Join Date: Jul 2010
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I just had the opposite experience, and booked Hawaii to Asia via Europe.
I was poking around looking for HNL-DEL in business and was surprised that united.com returned a HNL-SFO-MUC-DEL routing. For the return I got DEL-BKK-ICN-HNL. A round the world trip in business for 120,000 miles, which I'm guessing is not bad.
And I get to see the ताज महल, woohoo.
I was poking around looking for HNL-DEL in business and was surprised that united.com returned a HNL-SFO-MUC-DEL routing. For the return I got DEL-BKK-ICN-HNL. A round the world trip in business for 120,000 miles, which I'm guessing is not bad.
And I get to see the ताज महल, woohoo.
Aug 6, 2013, 3:27 pm
#17
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Volcano, HI
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Got to keep my Hawaii-Europe-Asia-Hawaii routing, though.
Aug 6, 2013, 6:58 pm
#18
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Got a LX business class seat ex-SFO cleared midweek beg of Oct. Had been looking for it for about a month. They do occasionally show up.
Aug 6, 2013, 10:04 pm
#19
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: WAS
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No deal. The agent said I must take the next available connecting flight out of PEK, as any extending layover there would amount to a stopover, which I've already used. This is the same answer I received from a previous agent, but after much less work on her part. I'm tapping out.
Nonetheless, guess there's no point in fighting it.
Oct 31, 2013, 1:45 pm
#21
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Oct 31, 2013, 3:42 pm
#23
Join Date: Jul 2010
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It might be permitted as part of an award, but it will certainly cost additional miles. For these cases I'm never totally clear on whether it's the price of Hawaii-N. America plus N. America-Asia or something less than that. I can't find it now, but I recall another thread where there was some additional mileage increment for transiting another zone, but it wasn't quite two separate reward prices.