OPS, I did the NEW YEAR'S PAZZY!!! booked the Around the World with 3 "space" cabins. New First by JAL, Delta One Suite and KLM

Imagine you are visited by a friend from Austin in Pietra Ligure on Christmas Eve.

This friend is a point-sick person much worse than you, is 26 years old is a Delta Diamond Medallion, an Ultimate Flying Blue and a Gold Guest List in the British Club.

Say he tells you, "...I'm thinking of making a trip to Tokyo with JAL's new First Class..." not just any booth, but the new space on the A350 and so After spending 48h around the west coast, the moment we say goodbye so as a joke we try to create an itinerary and eventually the magic is accomplished.

And so your good intentions of don't fly again until 2026 go to that country, trous opportunity to set up such an itinerary.

Flexibility + Last Minute= great opportunities

What I often tell, also within the Training Center, is that if you have flexibility it is possible to take great satisfaction.

If we add to this the fact that Last minute, even in high season, companies open their own unsold to everyone, because the important thing is to fill and sell all the seats one understands how it was possible to organize in less than 60 minutes an itinerary that Will allow me to go around the world faster than my life.

A tour of the world (almost) all with dots

I have explained this several times: my itineraries are created around a ticket. In the world of point hunters there are some tickets that are really hard to find and First Class on JAL's A350 is one of them.

Seeing not one, but as many as 2 award seats available to fly first class from Paris to Tokyo for "only" 90k AAdvantage miles plus less than €200 in taxes is almost a mirage.

We are talking about a ticket that, paid cash, would have cost more than 9,000 euros. My problem, not my American friend's, however, was finding a way to get those 90k points. Unfortunately, from Italy it is not possible to transfer from MR or Revolut to the American Airlines loyalty program and then I thought of implementing the strategy of buying to book.

Right now there is a promotion that for a few days allows you to save up to 40% on the purchase of miles, but I needed 90k so the discount was only 30% And so I could have spent a little over 2000€ to buy the points

But in the end I wanted to do it all with points and so I opted to book with British Avios. To understand. if it's hard to see them in AA, catching them with avios is like finding a needle in a haystack at night.

Said and done, a ticket that would have cost me 9k euros I got it for 136,500 Avios, which I already had in my account, plus 331€ in surcharges.

Arriving in Tokyo, I had only one goal: to get home in time for New Year's Eve dinner, but trying to fly aboard a new airline and/or aboard a cabin not yet reviewed.

And so among the various options I scouted out the possibility of flying on Delta Airlines' flagship, in what is considered the best premium cabin in the stars and stripes right now.

I must always get the most out of all my itineraries, the possibility of booking a continuation flight to Cancun will allow me to enter the Delta One lounge in LA and in Virgin Atlantic's new clubhouse., the first is one of the very few rooms dedicated exclusively to Delta One passengers and the other is one of the most difficult to visit given VS's restrictive rules.

My Skymiles balance, however, was 0, but here it didn't take long. I logged into my MR account and transferred 180k MR, enough to get the miles I needed to book the ticket. The transfer time was less than 60 minutes.

Final expenditure 115k skymiles plus about 85€ tax, or rather 180k MR that I could also have turned into 640€.

Ticket that paid cash would have cost me about 1800€, so about 1000€ savings. Not the best, but as always: the best conversion is the one that makes you happy.

To get back to Italy so I went for the sure thing: flying blue. Needless to say. This year I practically ransacked my account., not only the our vacation in Polynesia, but also the 10 tickets paid for our Group "excursion" to New York City.

And so I will arrive at Linate on December 31 at noon., perfectly in time to get home and get ready for the longest night of the year. And in the coming months I will bring to the YT channel three videos one more special than the other, I will be able to review several lounges starting with the one in Qatar at CDG and, dulcis in fundo, I will add a little house to my collection.

In conclusion

I was not planning to fly, as I had written in several articles, until early 2026 and instead I will fly to Tokyo, then I will take the time machine and land before I have departed in Los Angeles, and finally, after gobbling in the Delta One Lounge at LAX I will fly aboard KLM's 787/10 to Amsterdam and then return to Linate, for what will be for all intents and purposes the last flight of 2025.

All in less than 48h and with a cost of 180k MR points, 60k FB points, 136,500 avios and about 600€. And if you don't know how to "copy" my tickets. you just enter the Training Center to learn.

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