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‎Best programs for multi-destination trips

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-Your best options are Japanese Airlines (JAL) and Cathay Pacific, which are both part of the Oneworld alliance. ANA can also be an attractive choice, but for these types of trips, it requires that your flights travel in a single direction and go all the way around the world.
+Your best options are JAL Mileage Bank and Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, which both work with the Oneworld alliance. ANA can also be an attractive choice, but for these types of trips, it requires that your flights travel in a single direction and go all the way around the world.
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-<li>For a European example, you might want to go from New York to Madrid, then Morocco, then London, Paris, and Rome, and then back home. This total trip distance is 10,857 miles. This trip would require 60,000 miles in economy, and 110,000 miles in business with JAL rather than 97,000 / 207,000 with American. However, depending on the airlines you fly, you may wind up paying substantially more in fuel surcharges. </li>
+<li>For a European example, you might want to go from New York to Madrid, then Morocco, then London, Paris, and Rome, and then back home. This total trip distance is 10,857 miles. This trip would require 60,000 miles in economy and 110,000 miles in business with JAL rather than 97,000 and 207,000 with American. However, depending on the airlines you fly, you may wind up paying substantially more in fuel surcharges. </li>
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-<li>As an extreme example, imagine a globe-hopping trip from New York to Rome, then London, then Johannesburg, then side flights to Cape Town and Victoria Falls, then nonstop to Sao Paulo Brazil, and finally back to New York. The total distance of this trip would be 22,912 miles and the JAL mileage cost would be 120,000 in coach, 150,000 in business, and 230,000 in first. The same trip with American Airlines miles would be 185,500 / 325,500 miles.</li>
+<li>As an extreme example, imagine a globe-hopping trip from New York to Rome, then London, then Johannesburg, then side flights to Cape Town and Victoria Falls, then nonstop to Sao Paulo Brazil, and finally back to New York. The total distance of this trip would be 22,912 miles and the JAL mileage cost would be 120,000 in coach, 150,000 in business, and 230,000 in first. The same trip with American Airlines miles would be 185,500 in economy and 325,500 miles in business.</li>
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-<li>'''There are no good options for SkyTeam flights'''. None of the SkyTeam frequent flyer programs has a distance-based award chart, but a few of them have "round the world" fares that, like ANA, require you to either fly east or west. The best option is theoretically Aeromexico. Tickets require 224,000 points in economy or 352,000 in business, but because Aeromexico works with kilometers rather than miles, you get a bonus when you transfer membership reward points. This drops the cost to 140,000 Membership Rewards points in Economy and 220,000 in Business. The problem is that it might be impossible to book a complicated itinerary due to customer service issues. </li>
+<li>'''There are no good options for SkyTeam flights'''. None of the SkyTeam frequent flyer programs uses a distance-based award chart, but a few of them have "round the world" fares that, like ANA, require you to either fly east or west. </li>
-Korean Airlines requires the same 140,000 / 220,000 points but supports fewer stopovers (6-7) and isn't a partner of any of the credit card programs.
+The best option is theoretically Aeromexico. Tickets require 224,000 points in economy or 352,000 in business, but because Aeromexico works with kilometers rather than miles, you get a bonus when you transfer Membership Reward points. This drops the cost to 140,000 Membership Rewards points in Economy and 220,000 in Business. The problem is that it might be impossible to book a complicated itinerary due to customer service issues.
-<li>'''There are several options for Oneworld flights'''. Distance-based awards is something that is essentially unique to Oneworld, except for some around-the-world options with the other alliances.</li>
+Korean Airlines requires the same 140,000 or 220,000 points but supports fewer stopovers (6-7) and isn't a partner of any of the credit card programs.
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-  <li>'''Cathay Pacific is your best alternative choice'''. If you use at least two different airline partners (not counting Cathay Pacific itself), the required mileage will be determined by their “Multi-carrier” award chart, which is based on the total distance flown. Using multiple partners is likely to happen naturally on these types of trips. If not, you can often deliberately add a short flight on an additional airline to make sure you are using the right chart. You can transfer Membership Rewards, ThankYou, and Marriott points to Cathay Pacific to book your award.</li>
+  <li>'''Cathay Pacific is your best alternative choice'''. If you use at least two different airline partners (not counting Cathay Pacific itself), the required mileage will be determined by their “Multi-carrier” award chart, which is based on the total distance flown. Using multiple partners is likely to happen naturally on these types of trips. If not, you can often deliberately add a short flight on an additional airline to make sure you are using the right chart.</li>
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-Your best options are Japanese Airlines (JAL) and Cathay Pacific, which are both part of the Oneworld alliance. ANA can also be an attractive option, but for these types of trips, it requires that your flights travel in a single direction and go all the way around the world.
+Your best options are Japanese Airlines (JAL) and Cathay Pacific, which are both part of the Oneworld alliance. ANA can also be an attractive choice, but for these types of trips, it requires that your flights travel in a single direction and go all the way around the world.
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-<li>'''ANA is the best option for Star Alliance flights, but they require an around-the-world itinerary'''. ANA’s distance-based chart is only available for trips which travel in a single direction (east or west). If you are travelling to somewhere that is close to half-way around the world anyway—like India, Africa from the West Coast, or East Asia or Australia from the East Coast—this isn’t necessarily a problem. But it won’t be a good option for many other itineraries.</li>
+<li>'''ANA is the best choice for Star Alliance flights, but they require an around-the-world itinerary'''. ANA’s distance-based chart is only available for trips which travel in a single direction (east or west). If you are travelling to somewhere that is close to half-way around the world anyway—like India, Africa from the West Coast, or East Asia or Australia from the East Coast—this isn’t necessarily a problem. But it won’t be a good option for many other itineraries.</li>
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 <li>'''There are no good options for SkyTeam flights'''. None of the SkyTeam frequent flyer programs has a distance-based award chart, but a few of them have "round the world" fares that, like ANA, require you to either fly east or west. The best option is theoretically Aeromexico. Tickets require 224,000 points in economy or 352,000 in business, but because Aeromexico works with kilometers rather than miles, you get a bonus when you transfer membership reward points. This drops the cost to 140,000 Membership Rewards points in Economy and 220,000 in Business. The problem is that it might be impossible to book a complicated itinerary due to customer service issues. </li>
-Korean Airlines requires the same 140,000 / 220,000 points, but support fewer stopovers (6-7) and isn't a partner of any of the credit card programs.
+Korean Airlines requires the same 140,000 / 220,000 points but supports fewer stopovers (6-7) and isn't a partner of any of the credit card programs.
 <li>'''There are several options for Oneworld flights'''. Distance-based awards is something that is essentially unique to Oneworld, except for some around-the-world options with the other alliances.</li>
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-  <li>'''Cathay Pacific is your best alternative option'''. If you use at least two different airline partners (not counting Cathay Pacific itself), the required mileage will be determined by their “Multi-carrier” award chart, which is based on the total distance flown. Using multiple partners is likely to happen naturally on these types of trips. If not, you can often deliberately add a short flight on an additional airline to make sure you are using the right chart. You can transfer Membership Rewards, ThankYou, and Marriott points to Cathay Pacific to book your award.</li>
+  <li>'''Cathay Pacific is your best alternative choice'''. If you use at least two different airline partners (not counting Cathay Pacific itself), the required mileage will be determined by their “Multi-carrier” award chart, which is based on the total distance flown. Using multiple partners is likely to happen naturally on these types of trips. If not, you can often deliberately add a short flight on an additional airline to make sure you are using the right chart. You can transfer Membership Rewards, ThankYou, and Marriott points to Cathay Pacific to book your award.</li>
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-<li>'''If you only have Ultimate Rewards points, your best option is usually British Airways'''. Like Cathay Pacific, when you fly on two or more partner airlines, you use a special chart that is based on the total distance traveled, rather than paying for each individual flight. Prices aren’t bad in economy, but get very expensive in business and first.</li>
+<li>'''If you only have Ultimate Rewards points, your best choice is usually British Airways'''. Like Cathay Pacific, when you fly on two or more partner airlines, you use a special chart that is based on the total distance traveled, rather than paying for each individual flight. Prices aren’t bad in economy but get very expensive in business and first.</li>
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-<li>'''There is rarely a reason to use the other options'''. Iberia doesn’t allow stop-overs. And Malaysia and Qantas are usually more expensive than the options above.</li>
+<li>'''There is rarely a reason to use the other options'''. Iberia doesn’t allow stopovers. And Malaysia and Qantas are usually more expensive than the options above.</li>
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-If you can limit yourself to Japan Airlines, plus at most one other partner, you can take advantage of even lower mileage requirements (shown in chart form above). This is often possible on multi-destination itineraries through Asia that leave from JAL gateways (Anchorage, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Hawaii, Las Vegas, LA, New Orleans, NYC, San Diego, San Francisco, and Hawaii).
+If you can limit yourself to Japan Airlines plus at most one other partner, you can take advantage of even lower mileage requirements (shown in chart form above). This is often possible on multi-destination itineraries through Asia that leave from JAL's US gateways.
 If you aren’t flying on multiple partners, Cathay Pacific and British Airways switch to different pricing mechanisms that don’t work for this type of trip.

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 If you can limit yourself to Japan Airlines, plus at most one other partner, you can take advantage of even lower mileage requirements (shown in chart form above). This is often possible on multi-destination itineraries through Asia that leave from JAL gateways (Anchorage, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Hawaii, Las Vegas, LA, New Orleans, NYC, San Diego, San Francisco, and Hawaii).

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 For this type of trip, you'll probably need to use JAL's multi-carrier Oneworld chart.
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 If you can stick with just a single partner and/or JAL flights, you can use their regular award chart.
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   <li>'''Cathay Pacific is your best alternative option'''. If you use at least two different airline partners (not counting Cathay Pacific itself), the required mileage will be determined by their “Multi-carrier” award chart, which is based on the total distance flown. Using multiple partners is likely to happen naturally on these types of trips. If not, you can often deliberately add a short flight on an additional airline to make sure you are using the right chart. You can transfer Membership Rewards, ThankYou, and Marriott points to Cathay Pacific to book your award.</li>