March 30, 200917 yr Also for interest, Cathay Pacific has just announced its fares for the rest of the year. There is a special return business class ticket BKK/LAX at around Bt. 106,000.
April 4, 200917 yr A few? You must a glass half full kind of guy! You also use less miles so in effect it's cheaper to fly the Pacific route. Btw, You can tack on Bali to your trip for no extra charge. You are permitted to have one layover of more than 24 hours so you can layover for 10 months if you choose in Bangkok before going to Bali. This is my third trip to Bali and they were all using FF miles and all involved lots of time in Thailand. It requires lots of time on the phone with the United rep, (I assuming you're using United miles, not sure if you're using Thai miles). My old game plan was to accumulate United miles by flying Thai and redeem them using Sing. But Sing no longer offers the non-stop from New York to Singapore in economy. I tried to use UA miles for SFO-BKK-DPS(Bali), with BKK being the stop-over. But the reservation agent told me it would exceed maximum mileage allowed on one reservation.
April 4, 200917 yr Thai has a promotion. If you have 164,000 you can get a free award ticket. This is NOT an upgrade but a full ticket in Business Class. So if it is 120,000 for an upgrade fro 44,000 more miles you would not pay anything No, 120,000 miles for United is also a full ticket, not a upgrade of paid ticket. So, Thai's 164,000 is not a good deal.
April 5, 200917 yr I tried to use UA miles for SFO-BKK-DPS(Bali), with BKK being the stop-over. But the reservation agent told me it would exceed maximum mileage allowed on one reservation. I would keep calling back until you get an amenable phone rep. Even if four say no, the 5th may say yes and it's a toll free call. As an experiment u might see if they let you do SFO-DPS. Then go to the Star website, figure out an route and suggest it, maybe SFO-NRT-BKK-DPS with a layover in BKK. I've done this three times from New York, and would think SFO should be the same.
April 5, 200917 yr Thai's 164,000 is not a good deal. Not all mileage programmes within an alliance are the same. I have always found THAI more stingy than UA, for example. On One World, you get more long-haul miles for your 'miles' on Asia Miles than you do on British Airways.
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