best (award travel using UA miles) travel to taiwan?
 

have united miles to use.....

planning houston (IAH) to taipei TPE sometime in march 2015, with dates somewhat flexible.....

also have amex MR points that I could transfer to one of the partner airlines...

haven't one this kind of trip before, wondering if there were any good pointers, or how to do the stopover if we wanted to in another close destination to taiwan.

thanks!!!!!

You could either have a stopover on the way to Taiwan (like in Tokyo or Seoul) or make TPE your stopover and pick a different destination (Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore.....)

best travel to taiwan
 

I don't think you can get to TPE nonstop from IAH. LAX is probably the most common connection point. The post above covers good stopover options so I won't repeat.

Recommend you try one of the Asian carriers in *A instead of flying United metal for the TPAC flight.

is booking the ticket through United or any of their alliance partners any different? I already have United miles, but could transfer Amex MR to other partner airlines....just didn't know if it would work any differently....

If you redeem in premium classes, you will take a big penalty in additional UA miles required if you mix in *A partners...

An AMEX->SQ transfer allows redemption in SQ 77W J/F IAH-DME-SIN-TPE. ;)

The Eva business class has pretty good values as they have like first class services. They usually open up availabilities for *A partners within 90 days of the departure date

best travel to taiwan
 

i just did SFO-TPE on EVA J and TPE-NRT-SFO on NH J and UA F. I believe one way UA F ticket cost same as many miles as BR J (BR J cost 10k more miles than UA J). I think the BR flight being nonstop TPAC makes more sense. The stop in NRT reduces the TPAC flight time and limits how long one can sleep on board.

You can book partner flights with your UA miles on united.com (but you may not see all of them, not sure if some level of blocking is still happening).

thanks for all the advice! I've spent so much time looking up every single one of the abbreviations! :)

sorry for all the questions, but if looking at redemption on *A partner airlines (amex points can transfer to all nippon, singapore, and air canada from what I can see) is there one place on UA website where I can look at this, or do I have to sign up for FF accounts with all the partner airlines and look at each place individually to figure out my options before I initiate any AMEX MR transfers?

I'm confused...

:confused::confused::confused:

Are you going to use United miles or transfer?

United.com does not show SQ 77W space (or any SQ award space). You need singaporeair.com to do that. If you want to fly SQ from the USA in premium classes, you need to transfer to SQ.

Your United miles should be able to redeem on UA, BR, NH or TG. There is a penalty of additional miles for non-UA redemptions, though.

Coming out of Houston going to Asia 90% of the time on UA metal you will be going through Tokyo.

Wherever you go in southeast asia, you will stop over in Japan.

Why dont you do a stop over in Japan while going to Taiwan?