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Hey y'all! It's been a while, hasn't it? I'm sure by now you've all heard about the massive Asia Miles devaluations coming our way. The new award pricing takes effect on October 1st, and increases award pricing by as much as 30% for long-haul premium awards. If you have a significant amount of Asia Miles on hand, now is the time to make the best use of them!
One of the best values for AM has always been the oneworld multi-carrier award, otherwise known as the round the world ticket. It allows up to 10 segments, for a total distance not exceeding 50,000 miles, and allows 5 stopovers (stop of over 24 hours), 2 transfers (stop of less than 24 hours), and 2 openjaws (departing from a city different than the one you landed in). The remaining rules are surprisingly lax.
For example, this is a valid itinerary:
Taipei-Tokyo-Taipei / Taipei-Seoul-Taipei / Taipei-Kuala Lumpur,Bali-Hong Kong-Taipei / Taipei-Osaka,Hokkaido-Tokyo-Taipei
That's 4 round trip Asia flights, and it will only set you back 90K mi in Economy, 135K mi in business, or 220K miles in First! (Come October, prices for this itinerary will become 95K mi / 170K mi / 250K mi)
In the past, designing a RTW itinerary has been a pretty daunting task, which used to entail a convoluted mess of spreadsheets and a combination of hopping between sites like google flights, flightconnections.com, or flightsfrom.com to find available routes, then popping over to gcmap.com to map out all the distances, then adding all the distances to determine what distance category you fall into, trying to find alternative flights to fit into particular distance categories, and then finding out that the flight you wanted doesn't even offer the class you want.
I've made a new tool that makes the process of finding valid routes simpler. Here are some of the main things you can do easily research with this tool:
1. City pair options
2. Carrier options
3. Route distances
4. Class options by route and carrier
5. Carrier combination validation
6. Stopover, transfer, openjaw combination validation
7. Distance category calculation (based on current and new award pricing)
Try it out here: https://cxplanner.jayliu.net
You can read some more tips on how to use it here.
If you have any wish lists, or bug reports, please comment here or email me at [email protected]
嘿大家！是不是好久不見了呀？我相信現你們都已經接獲了亞洲萬里通大貶值即將到來的噩耗。新的兌換表將於10月1日生效，長程高級艙等的兌換價格很多都漲了高達30％。如果你手上還握有大量的亞洲萬里通還沒使用，現在就是趕快消耗掉的最後機會！
亞洲萬里通一直以來最具佳價值的使用方式之一是拿來兌換寰宇一家獎勵票，又稱環球票。環球票行程可以至多10個航段，總里程不超過50,000英里，並且允許5個停留（超過24小時），2個中轉（少於24小時），和2個開口（起飛城市與原降落城市不同）。除此之外，他其餘的規定都滿寬鬆的。
例如，這是一個有效的行程：
台北-東京-台北 / 台北-首爾-台北/ 台北-吉隆坡，峇里島-香港-台北 / 台北-大阪，札幌-東京-台北
這等於是 4 個亞洲來回票，而且總共只要花費經濟艙 9 萬里、商務艙 13.5 萬里、頭等艙 22 萬里！是不是超級划算？！（到了10月份，這個行程的價格會漲價到 9.5 萬里 / 17 萬里 / 25 萬里）
在過去，要設計一個環球票行程是一項頗具挑戰的任務，需要用一大試算表做記錄，並在 Google Flights、flightconnections.com 或 flightsfrom.com 等網站之間跳來跳去尋找可用的路線，然後到gcmap.com 上查距離，再將所有距離相加找級距，尋找到符合特定級距替代航班，最後可能還發現所需的航班根本沒有你要的艙等。
我製作了一個新的小工具，可以讓設計合法行程的過程更加容易一點。用這個環球票小幫手可以輕鬆讓你在找行程的過程找到：
起降城市組合選項
航段航空公司選項
航段距離
不同航線和航空公司的艙等選項
航空公司組合合格檢測
停留、中轉和開口規則監測
級距自動計算（基於現行和10月新的獎勵價格）
在此搶先試用: https://cxplanner.jayliu.net
更多使用上的撇步可以看這裡（不過只有英文）：
如果你有任何功能上的許願清單或錯誤回報，請在這裡留言或發送 email 至 [email protected] 與我聯繫。祝大家在貶值前換到好票!! ❤️❤️❤️