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When searching for awards to Japan a couple months ago, I stumbled across a routing that I never would have expected. It certainly made my list of quirky award routing options you should consider. It stood out because there are good nonstop options of ~6,250 flown miles. That already is a long-haul. But why fly that when you can fly 14,000 miles!
U.S. to Japan via…Africa?
When pricing out awards to Tokyo from Chicago, one would expect the options to include the nonstop flights offered by United, American, JAL and ANA. There is plenty of air traffic between these two cities. What I was actually looking for was ANA business class space. But instead of finding that, I found something way cooler:
Typically I…