Looking for a sweet spot here... I've never even flown to Asia so I'm starting with nothing.
Trying to piece together what's essentially a RTW with multi-day stopovers in Europe and Asia. I have flexibility with my airports, but not a ton due to scheduling. Ideally, I'd fly NYC-KBP-HRB-NYC (with whatever stops are required), but I'm looking for an award sweet spot. In all likelihood I'll need to book Asian hub-HRB separately.
I pieced together EWR-TXL-WAW-KBP-IST-PEK-JFK on UA for 215k in various J products (and PEK-HRB on cheap rev), but I wonder if there's a better way of doing it.
ANA is pretty great at 180k for J NYC-NRT-FRA-NRT-JFK with separate flights to KBP and PEK, but a. the westbound timing doesn't work, and b. all those separate flights aren't exactly great.
In short, any unique way of booking US-EU-Asia-US? Or a better option than UA for *a (other than LM, not gonna trust them with this itin)? I'll be buying whatever points I need for this FWIW.