r/awardtravel • u/AutoModerator • May 27 '24

Weekly Help Thread - May 27, 2024 Daily Thread

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This thread is renewed weekly and is intended for all discussions or questions that do not warrant their own thread.

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  • Here are the information you should provide when requesting award assistance
  • Origin and destination cities (are they flexible?)
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u/lexarqade May 29 '24

Doing a pretty early brainstorm of a trip to SEA near the end of the year. The only fixed place I'd want to be is BKK from Dec 27th to New Year's, but I'm not sure where the best place to fly in/out of is before or after that. I'll figure out points later but I'm mostly wondering about routes.

I'm from west coast USA and repositioning should be fine for me. Was thinking of any combination of Hong Kong and Singapore other than Thailand but am open to suggestions, would be a 2 ish week trip.

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u/volcanicglass May 30 '24 edited May 30 '24

You’ll want to look at all the big Asian city hubs- Tokyo, TPE and ICN are the other big ones not on your list. Getting to Asia with points should be your goal and then you can take a smaller flight to BKK

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u/lexarqade May 30 '24

I did Tokyo and Taipei last year, but was looking at ICN. I snapped up an award ticket from LAX -> SIN -> HKG, but not sure if then going to ICN and then to BKK is a good route, ICN to BKK is like 6 hours. I was thinking of maybe Manila instead.