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United Mileage Run to Asia - Late Aug 2017
« on: July 09, 2017, 09:40:47 PM »
So.... I'm planning a crazy trip to Asia in an effort to try out a bunch of UA products and get a boatload of PQMs late this summer. Trying to head to the Tokyo fish market for the last time before it closes for good!

Looking for advice and anyone who thinks this would be fun.

Here are the details as they stand now:

Sun 8/27:
UA 497 EWR-SFO 8:05 AM - 11:05 AM (6:00 flying time), 777-300 (77W)
2:15 connection in SFO
UA 300 SFO-HNL 1:20 PM - 3:38 PM (5:18 flying time), 777-200

1 night in HNL

Monday 8/28 - Tuesday 8/29
UA 201 HNL-GUM 2:15 PM - 5:55 PM+1 (7:40 flying time), 777-200
1:05 connection in GUM
UA 183 GUM-MNL 7:00 PM - 8:50 PM (3:50 flying time), 738

Turnaround - Time in Manila - 2:40

Tuesday 8/29 - Wed 8/30
UA 184 MNL-GUM 11:30 PM - 5:30 AM+1 (4:00 flying time), 738
1:25 connection in GUM
UA 828 GUM-NRT 6:55 AM - 9:35 AM (3:40 flying time), 777-200
7:20 connection in NRT
UA 838 NRT-SFO 4:55 PM - 10:40 AM (9:45 flying time), 777-300(77W)
2:30 connection time in SFO
UA 779 SFO-EWR 1:10 PM - 9:58 PM (5:48 flying time), 757-200

Total cost: 1,100.66
10,725 UA award miles, 21,205 PQM, 8 PQS, 975 PQD

Ok, so who's in? ;-)

A few notes on my itinerary:
-The EWR-MNL portion is K fare, the MNL-EWR is in V fare
-I have United 1K status and will use 1 RDU and 1 GPU for upgrading EWR-HNL & MNL-EWR. HNL-GUM will be in coach while GUM-MNL may get CPU upgraded - I therefore expect most of
  the trip to be in J and will have a chance to survey many different J products on one trip. The full cost of J for all of these segments comes out to about 9K!
-I will look to SDC (Same day Change) onto the Island Hopper for the HNL to GUM portion and leave early Monday morning
-I will look to spend Wed (8/30) in Tokyo before heading back to SFO
-I considered LAX instead of SFO since I'd be able to stop for food. However, the NRT-LAX route is flown by the 787 Dreamliner which has a 2-2-2 J config
-I'm open to carefully spreading the trip out until the following week, but need to watch out for places where the fare jumps to a few grand!
-I have an issue with getting to NRT at 9:35 since the fish market famous tuna auction starts lining up at 5 AM
-Most of these flights have availability for XN - assume that waitlisting for J is an option

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Re: United Mileage Run to Asia - Late Aug 2017
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2017, 02:45:19 AM »
What about PQD?
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