As I am now officially taking over this thread we are moving on to my next deliberation, the return!
There are options with each having its own pros and cons. I am not so familiar so would appreciate the help.
Green: CX J (currently only J available) on the 77W.
Pro: taking advantage before the deval once more. Con: Taking them on the way there already.
Purple: KE F on the A380.
Its during peak season and will run 142.5k + ~$200 p/p instead of otherwise 95k.
Red: TG F on the A380 to NRT (~6hrs) and 77W on ANA for 130k + ~$50 p/p
The connection is 55 minutes in NRT.
Looks like there were some changes since I arrived at home.
When I checked back for BKK-NRT-JFK I now noticed that TG is J and not F on the A380. Not sure if those 2 seats could have actually been snagged up for my dates in the last few hours or if I misread it earlier (weird, I was really sure it was F on both parts). Does that change anything in regards to which route y'all would pick?
BKK-CDG is open on the A380 for TG F but nothing from there to the US. (Unless I'd want to look into AF J?!) It just seems that people really enjoy BKK ground service on TG so it seems like the best way to go but is ground service as good when flying J (via NRT)? Probably not.
[Separate note: Would BKK-CDG (TG F)-FRA-JFK (LH F) be an option -as 1 award!!- if I could piece it together myself? Or is that useless as it would come up on UA's search under BKK-JFK if all the legs were available?]
Another (very strange) thing I noticed in regards to KE F is that when I looked at departing on KE vs returning, I could actually do JFK-ICN-CNX for 95k. When searching CNX-ICN-JFK it prices out at 142.5k (I first thought it was peak vs off-peak but even when searching on the same date this discrepancy occurs). That made me think to maybe depart via KE F and return via CX F until I looked at award space for CX coming back and currently there is not a glimmer of hope for that scenario.
What to do, what to do...