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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]definitely use one of the points websites--I like point.me. I recently got flights to london non stop for about 12k points each way by doing a kind of work around, instead of using points directly on the airline or credit card sites where it was like 40k points. I search them for business class deals as well--last year DH and I went to the dolonites, business there and economy plus back for 100k points total, non stop to venice, in july.

as to how i would spend? We have a list of places to go. I kind of search for the time period and places I'm interested in and see what's available. We have a lot of places on our list, japan, turkey, argentina, vietnam/thailand, etc. I would use the points to fly business long haul. [/quote]

NP here. I have $1M amex points! Not kidding. I want to use for long haul flights/upgrades. Kids want to go to Australia, Japan, Thailand, ect. I'm in! But we are 4. So do you get regular flights with points and then upgrades with cash? [/quote]

The play is finding saver business awards, but finding 4 roundtrip is going to be very very difficult.  And the prices to those locations are around 100-120k/each way.  I just booked 2 Singapore Airlines biz awards to Tokyo for 125k/person each way.  But only 2 were available at that price point.[/quote]

I'm not opposed to kids being in coach. They are 16 and 13 now and this would be next summer so 17 and 14. They should be fine. [/quote]
Go to Pointsyeah and look at their explorer. Set it to US to Japan. Set banks to American Express, check just business and first, and then set premium cabin to 100%. Then just look at a few months and see what the options are. It’ll show you availability from all major US cities. For something like Japan you will likely need to be open to repositioning to another major city. Then flip to Japan to US and reverse course.[/quote]

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