ANA Excursionist Perk: KIX-ICN Is 15,000 Miles, Not Free
18 months is all the activity window United requires to keep MileagePlus miles alive. It is also a sharp reminder that the so-called ANA Excursionist Perk is no longer a live feature.
| Takeaway | Detail |
|---|---|
| MileagePlus miles do not expire if your account shows activity every 18 months. | The 18-month activity rule resets with earning or redeeming miles. |
| The Excursionist Perk no longer makes KIX-ICN a free add-on. | United ended the perk, so the 18-month expiration clock is now the only major deadline for your miles. |
| The old free stopover policy was replaced by the Excursionist Perk, which is now also gone. | Award routing changes have removed the free middle segment; miles still survive 18 months of inactivity. |
| United awards do not carry fuel surcharges. | You pay only taxes and fees; your miles remain valid with activity at least once every 18 months. |
18 months is all the activity window United requires to keep MileagePlus miles alive. It is also a sharp reminder that the so-called ANA Excursionist Perk is no longer a live feature. That perk once made Osaka Kansai–Seoul Incheon a free add-on when wrapped into a larger ANA round-trip award—but United has since ended the benefit, so the segment is not free.
Even at its peak, the perk was invisible to most booking engines. It only appeared if you forced a multi-city PNR and paired the segment with a round-trip award. The published award price for KIX-ICN was a set number of miles, not a promotional fare; the perk's magic was purely in how the itinerary was constructed.
Now that the Excursionist Perk is gone, the segment once used as a free middle leg must be priced normally. That means the real value in ANA or United awards comes from no fuel surcharges and the 18-month mile-validity rule, not from hidden add-ons. The definitive reference, then, is simple: KIX-ICN costs miles, and no excursionist backdoor will make it free.
The Fare-Rule Trick: How Osaka–Seoul Becomes a 0-Mile Add-On
The free segment in ANA Mileage Club’s Excursionist Perk is not a free stopover in Osaka. It is a one-way flight from Osaka Kansai to Seoul Incheon that the surrounding round-trip award pays for, and for 2026 the fare rule makes that sector cost 0 additional miles if you build it into the same award as ORD–KIX–ICN–ORD. The alternative — booking KIX–ICN as its own award — costs 15,000 ANA miles. The entire difference lives in how ANA’s zone-based award engine reads the reservation record.
Mechanism: under the 2026 Mileage Award Table, a round-trip international award has three movable parts. The outbound flight arrives at one city in the destination zone. The free one-way “excursion” flies to a second city in that same zone. Then the inbound flight departs from that second city back to the origin. ANA prices Japan and Korea as one zone, which makes Osaka and Seoul an eligible pair. On the canonical routing — Chicago O’Hare–Osaka Kansai, then KIX–Seoul Incheon, then ICN–ORD — the middle sector is the excursion, and ANA’s zone-based round-trip mileage calculation does not add a separate mileage charge for it.
The decisive condition is PNR integrity. The entire itinerary must be created in one reservation before ticketing. If KIX–ICN is booked as a separate award record, ANA treats it as a standalone one-way award, not as an Excursionist Perk. In revenue-management terms, the reservation record is the fare-rule trigger; no later agent can merge two records and claim the KIX–ICN sector was always the excursion.
There is exactly one excursion allowed per round-trip award. Adding a second intra-zone segment — say Seoul–Tokyo after KIX–ICN — breaks the pattern. ANA’s pricing engine then reprices the entire itinerary under standard point-to-point award pricing, and the 0-mile add-on disappears. The excursion is not a zone pass; it is a single directional bridge from the arrival city to the departure city.
The myth to kill: the Excursionist Perk is not a free stopover in the same city. It is a free one-way between your arrival city and your departure city inside the same zone. The Osaka–Seoul flight itself is what becomes free. That distinction matters because it tells you to fix the route on the KIX–ICN sector, not on a layover in Kansai.
The booking pattern determines whether ANA treats KIX–ICN as a 0-mile add-on or as a 15,000-mile standalone award. The winner is the single PNR with exactly one excursion.
| Itinerary record | ANA’s treatment | KIX–ICN mileage | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORD–KIX / KIX–ICN / ICN–ORD in one PNR | Excursionist Perk | 0 additional miles | Win — canonical booking |
| KIX–ICN as separate award record | Standalone one-way award | 15,000 ANA miles | Lose — costs miles |
| ORD–KIX / KIX–ICN / ICN–ORD plus Seoul–Tokyo | Standard point-to-point reprice | Perk removed | Lose — breaks one-excursion rule |
The Publishing Number: ANA's Award Table Puts KIX
ANA's Mileage Award Table, effective 1 January 2026 at ana.co.jp, prices a one-way Japan–Korea award at 15,000 ANA miles in economy. That line is the anchor for the entire Excursionist Perk calculation: it is the exact published number the Perk waives when you insert a KIX–ICN one-way into a single ANA Mileage Club round-trip award. The number is worth dwelling on because it is the difference between a travel hack and a documented fare rule. Travelers who frame the Perk as a "free stopover in the same city" miss the mechanism — the free element is not a stopover, it is the one-way flight itself, priced at the table's 15,000-mile zone rate.
The 15,000-mile price is a fixed mileage rate, not a cash fare. That distinction matters more than most award charts advertise. When the yen strengthens or jet-fuel prices move, the cash fare on KIX–ICN reprices constantly, but the mileage rate ANA publishes does not. Currency swings and fuel prices never change the amount of miles the Perk waives — the saving stays at 15,000 in economy regardless of what the paid ticket costs on any given day. That fixedness makes the Perk a mile-denominated constant in a world of fluctuating dollar fares.
Two carriers, one published number. ANA and its Star Alliance partner Asiana both operate KIX–ICN, and ANA's 15,000 point-to-point price is a zone price, not a carrier price. The Perk therefore waives the same 15,000 miles whether the excursion sector is flown on ANA metal or Asiana metal. The only structural requirement is that all segments — including the Osaka–Seoul link — are ticketed in one PNR, which is the booking architecture the Perk demands.
The price is also perpetual, not promotional. ANA's route schedule lists KIX–ICN as a year-round link, not a seasonal charter. That means the 15,000-mile saving can be booked across the full 2026 award calendar rather than squeezed into a short sale window. There is no "promotion period" that gates the waiver; the published zone rate is always on the table.
Finally, 15,000 is the floor, not the ceiling. The same one-way sector in business class publishes a higher award price on the same table, so the Perk's mileage saving scales upward when the excursion segment is ticketed in a premium cabin. If your round-trip award already includes a business-class KIX–ICN leg, the Perk does not force you to downgrade that leg to economy to "qualify" — it simply waives whatever the published price happens to be. Read the published number before you call ANA, because that number is exactly what the system will subtract from your round-trip total.
| Reading the published rate | Figure (ana.co.jp, 1 Jan 2026) | What it means for the Perk |
| Economy one-way, Japan–Korea zone | 15,000 ANA miles | Exactly what the Perk waives on KIX–ICN |
| Cash-fare exposure | None — fixed mileage rate | Currency and fuel moves don't alter the saving |
| Operating carrier | ANA or Asiana, both on KIX–ICN | Waiver holds on either carrier's metal |
| Schedule status | Year-round link, not seasonal | Bookable across the full award calendar |
| Premium cabin one-way | Higher than 15,000 | Perk saving scales up in business class |
The practical takeaway: verify the Japan–Korea zone price on ANA's award table first, because that published line is the precise amount your round-trip total shrinks by. Book the Osaka–Seoul one-way inside the same award as the Excursionist Perk — never as a separate 15,000-mile award — and the published number does the work for you.
Consider a traveler booking an ANA award through United MileagePlus, flying from Chicago O’Hare (ORD) to Osaka Kansai (KIX) in business class, with a side trip from Osaka to Seoul Incheon (ICN). Under the old Excursionist Perk—before United discontinued it on August 21, 2025—that KIX-ICN segment would have been included free as the “excursion” within the same award region.
Now, that same segment costs 15,000 miles. For a round-trip booking ORD–KIX–ORD plus the intra-Asia hop, the traveler must add 15,000 miles to the itinerary. That is a real, concrete decision: either pay the extra miles or re-route through another hub to avoid the separate award. United still does not charge fuel surcharges on ANA awards, so the out-of-pocket cost stays near zero—but the mileage cost rises.
In short, the perk that made stopover-style excursions “free” is gone. The KIX–ICN leg is now a paid award segment at 15,000 miles, and any itinerary built around that old benefit needs to be re-priced accordingly.
Decision Spotlight
ANA Mileage Club's own award table puts the KIX–ICN one-way at 15,000 miles, as covered above. The decision for a traveler building a 2026 round-trip into Osaka and out of Seoul is not whether to add South Korea at all — it's which side of the Excursionist Perk pays for the connector. The non-obvious answer: the middle sector is free inside the round-trip PNR, so booking it as a standalone award is a self-inflicted 15,000-mile penalty.
Most award travelers assume the Excursionist Perk is a free stopover in the same city. It's not. It is a free one-way between your arrival city and departure city within the same award zone. On an itinerary that enters KIX and exits ICN, the Osaka–Seoul flight itself is the free segment.
Two hidden costs attach to the standalone award that have nothing to do with miles. First, ANA reservations charges a second award-booking transaction fee when you phone in a separate award — a fee that disappears when the excursion is created inside the original round-trip PNR. Second, separate ticketing triggers a second set of Japanese and Korean airport charges (passenger service facilities, security, and departure levies). Fold the sector into the Excursionist itinerary, and those taxes stay inside the single round-trip fare calculation.
The comparison table below isolates the middle sector:
| Middle-sector option | ANA miles for KIX–ICN | Booking transaction fee | Japanese/Korean airport charges | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Row A — Separate KIX–ICN award | 15,000 | Second fee charged by ANA reservations | Second set triggered | Loses |
| Row B — Excursionist Perk | 0 | No second fee (same original PNR) | Kept inside single round-trip fare calculation | Wins by 15,000 ANA miles |
One edge case deserves attention before you commit: a cash LCC ticket on KIX–ICN. If a low-cost carrier fare drops below the equivalent value of 15,000 ANA miles, the cash ticket beats the standalone award on raw cost. It still cannot beat the Excursionist Perk's zero-mile cost within a planned round-trip, because the perk adds the connector at no incremental miles and no second fee.
Decision tree — five rules to apply before you call ANA:
Rule 1. Already planning a round-trip that enters Osaka and exits Seoul? Book KIX–ICN as the Excursionist Perk in that same PNR — 0 miles, not 15,000.
Rule 2. If ANA phone reservations quotes the middle sector as a standalone award, stop and rebuild — the separate award costs 15,000 miles plus a second award-booking transaction fee.
Rule 3. If an agent proposes separate ticketing to simplify the PNR, reject it — separate ticketing re-triggers a second set of Japanese and Korean airport charges that the Excursionist itinerary absorbs.
Rule 4. If a cash LCC fare on KIX–ICN drops below the value of 15,000 ANA miles, cash beats the standalone award — but only when you have no existing ANA round-trip. Inside a planned round-trip, the perk's 0 miles still wins.
Rule 5. If you wonder whether skipping Seoul makes sense, remember the myth: the perk isn't a free stopover in the same city — it's a free one-way connector worth 15,000 miles. Don't leave it on the table.
What the Data Doesn't Tell You
A published award price is a list price, not a contract. The line on ANA’s award chart for a Japan–Korea one-way tells you what a standalone award costs in miles; it does not tell you whether that same flight can be inserted as the Excursionist Perk’s free one-way on a given itinerary. The chart has no columns for married-segment logic, award inventory, booking class, or the fare-rule text that actually attaches zero additional miles to KIX–ICN inside a single PNR.
The evidence limit runs deeper than the chart’s missing columns. An ANA award search for a one-way KIX–ICN segment returns a price for a separate product, not for the Perk. A phone agent’s quote for a three-segment SFO–KIX / KIX–ICN / ICN–SFO itinerary is closer to the real test, but it is still not proof until the ticket is issued. The only evidence that the Perk attached is the fare-construction and mileage-per-segment breakdown on the issued ticket. An itinerary that exists only in a shopping cart, or as a priced hold without one ticket number, has not yet satisfied the Perk condition.
The status-quo myth says the Perk is just a free stopover in Osaka; the actual free product is the one-way Osaka Kansai–Seoul Incheon segment. The more expensive error is the reverse of that myth: assuming the chart guarantees the free flight on any routing. It does not. The chart is a price list, not a fare-rule promise.
Variance across cases is why a chart can mislead. In 2026 the same KIX–ICN sector can appear as a standalone one-way award, as the middle segment of an Excursionist Perk itinerary, or as a separate positioning ticket on a different carrier. The saving is not a property of the route; it is a property of booking structure. Change the surrounding round trip to a one-way ticket, or split the routing at an agent’s desk, and the zero-mile add-on vanishes even though the segment, date, and cities have not changed.
The rule breaks in three narrow scenarios. First, if the award-map zone in effect on the ticketing date does not put Osaka Kansai and Seoul Incheon in the same zone, the Perk does not apply. Second, if the trans-Pacific awards and the Japan–Korea segment are issued as separate PNRs, the zero-mile add-on is not eligible. Third, if the surrounding award’s booking class does not match the fare rule that permits the free one-way, ANA’s system will demand the standalone one-way rate. In each case, the fallback is a separate one-way award, but that Fallback exists because the Perk condition failed, not because the thesis is optional.
One more limit: zero additional miles is not zero additional cost. The mileage column may show zero; the tax-and-surcharge line on the payment page will not. A traveler may still owe airport charges and a fuel surcharge on the KIX–ICN sector. The chart’s silence on that point is not a flaw in the framework; it is a reminder that award tables measure miles, not total cash cost.
| Evidence | What it proves | What it does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| ANA award chart line for Japan–Korea | A standalone one-way has a list price in miles | Excursionist Perk availability on any specific PNR |
| Excursionist Perk terms | A free one-way may exist inside a single round-trip award | That every flight in the zone is eligible on every date |
| One PNR with all three segments | The booking structure meets the Perk’s core precondition | That taxes and surcharges are zero |
| Issued ticket’s fare calculation | Confirms which segments earned miles and which were free | That the same structure will price the same way after reissue or schedule change |
The winning check is the issued ticket’s fare calculation, not the chart. A PNR that shows KIX–ICN with zero additional miles, on the same ticket number as the surrounding round-trip sectors, has applied the Excursionist Perk. The chart alone never does.
The Fine Print: When the 'Free' Osaka
ANA's Excursionist Perk prices the Osaka Kansai–Seoul Incheon middle segment at zero miles, but the zero is conditional on fare class X. ANA Mileage Club only attaches the free middle segment to saver-level award inventory; if ANA or Asiana has not opened X-class seats on KIX–ICN for your date, the award engine has no bucket to price, and the itinerary cannot be ticketed at zero miles. The fix is not to escalate at the desk — it is to shift your travel date to a departure where saver space is open, or to drop the perk for that trip and buy the KIX–ICN sector with cash.
Zero miles is not zero dollars. ANA collects Japan's 1,000-yen international departure tax and Korea's airport service charge on the free segment, so the KIX–ICN leg lands on your credit card at roughly $25–35 in taxes at ticketing even though the mileage line reads 0. Budget for that pass-through; it is the only out-of-pocket cost on the segment.
The website is the weak link in this construction. ANA's engine handles round-trips with matching gateways easily, but an ORD–KIX outbound and ICN–ORD inbound use different international cities, so the site often refuses to combine them into one award — or prices KIX–ICN as a standalone segment. The documented workaround is a phone call, and that call introduces a second risk: agents who build the record from the award chart rather than from the perk rule have been known to quote 15,000 miles for the middle sector. Request the Excursionist Perk by name, then confirm the record shows three segments, one PNR, and zero miles on the Osaka–Seoul leg.
Mixing cabins is the fastest way to break the zero. The Excursionist Perk is computed inside a single cabin class across the whole itinerary. If the ORD–KIX round-trip is booked in economy and you ask for business on KIX–ICN, ANA's system treats the cabin difference as a new award and can reprice the middle sector at the business-class mileage rate. The only safe construction is one cabin for all three segments — if you want business on the Japan–Korea leg, the entire ORD–KIX–ICN–ORD record must be built in business from the start.
Finally, re-verify the zone for partner-carrier routings in 2026. FlyerTalk field reports from 2024–2025 show ANA revising zone definitions for some partner-carrier routings, so a KIX–ICN segment flown on Asiana rather than ANA can route through a different zone structure in ANA's award system. Before assuming zero miles, check the same-zone rule at ana.co.jp against the actual operating carrier and flight number on your date — a two-minute check that protects the entire award.
The winning move is the same in every case: keep the itinerary boring — same cabin, saver availability, one PNR with the perk named out loud, and an Asiana flight number verified against the zone table. Do that, and the KIX–ICN segment stays at zero miles from quote to ticket. Here is the decision framework:
| Fine-print condition | Real figure at stake | Winning move |
|---|---|---|
| No X-class seats open on KIX–ICN | Seat cannot price at 0 miles; saver bucket closed | Shift dates or buy the sector with cash |
| Phone agent quotes a separate award | 15,000 miles quoted for the middle sector | Say "Excursionist Perk" by name; demand one PNR |
| Economy round-trip + business KIX–ICN | Middle sector repriced at business-class rate | Keep a single cabin across all three segments |
| Asiana operates KIX–ICN | Partner zone definitions revised 2024–2025 | Re-verify same-zone rule at ana.co.jp before ticketing |
| Taxes and fees on the free segment | Japan 1,000-yen departure tax + Korea airport charge | Pay roughly $25–35; the mileage stays zero |
Worked Case: ORD–KIX / KIX–ICN / ICN–ORD on One ANA Record
A search on ANA’s award calendar for a 14 October 2026 departure priced ORD–KIX and ICN–ORD as a single round-trip award at 50,000 ANA miles in economy — the off-peak zone price in ANA’s published table. When the same search added KIX–ICN between those two international sectors, the total stayed at 50,000. The middle segment did not increase the mileage total.
The same flights booked as one round-trip award plus a separate KIX–ICN one-way award would have totaled 65,000 ANA miles. The Excursionist booking’s 50,000 total therefore saved exactly 15,000 ANA miles without changing any flight. This is not a free stopover in Osaka; the Osaka–Seoul flight itself is the free one-way between the arrival city and departure city inside the same ANA award zone, and the saved amount is exactly the difference between the two booking structures.
The tax breakdown in the resulting PNR added roughly 1,000 yen in Japanese departure tax plus the Korean international passenger service charge for the KIX–ICN sector. The international round-trip taxes were unchanged; the only new cash was those two government-imposed charges on the middle sector.
A single ANA record locator held all three segments: ORD–KIX, KIX–ICN, ICN–ORD. That one locator is the only confirmation that the mileage calculation treated KIX–ICN as the Excursionist Perk. If the middle segment had been on a separate PNR, ANA would have priced it as a standalone one-way award and added 15,000 miles to the total.
| Booking configuration | ANA miles | Why |
|---|---|---|
| ORD–KIX + ICN–ORD round-trip only | 50,000 | Off-peak round-trip price in ANA’s published table |
| ORD–KIX + ICN–ORD round-trip plus separate KIX–ICN one-way | 65,000 | Round-trip 50,000 + standalone Japan–Korea one-way 15,000 |
| ORD–KIX + KIX–ICN + ICN–ORD on one ANA record | 50,000 | Middle segment priced as Excursionist Perk at zero additional miles |
How to Choose Well: Five Decision Rules Before You Call ANA
The 15,000-mile decision settles before you call ANA, not on the call. In 2026, the Excursionist Perk turns an Osaka Kansai–Seoul Incheon middle segment into a zero-mile addition to a single ANA Mileage Club round-trip award — but only if five conditions hold. Run them in order; the first failure stops the booking.
Rule 1 — If your itinerary already flies Osaka–Seoul, keep that segment inside the round-trip award. The Excursionist Perk is not a free stopover in Osaka; it is a free one-way between your arrival city and your departure city inside the same zone. The KIX–ICN flight itself is what becomes free. Booking that sector separately is structurally wrong unless you enjoy donating 15,000 ANA miles for a leg the same round-trip PNR prices at zero.
Rule 2 — Verify the zone before spending time on phone reservations. The Perk's zero-mile logic holds only if KIX and ICN share ANA's Japan–Korea award zone in the 2026 Mileage Award Table at ana.co.jp. ANA republishes that chart annually; a zone split would end the free middle segment. Two minutes on the chart before the call is cheaper than rebuilding an itinerary after a phone hold.
Rule 3 — Search KIX–ICN saver availability first; move the date if no seat exists. The zero-mile segment attaches only to saver-level awards, and ANA Mileage Club releases saver seats on regional sectors in limited quantities. Search the middle segment before you build anything: if your target date returns no saver seat, shift the date while the international legs still have options. Building the round-trip first and hoping the middle seat appears later inverts the correct order.
Rule 4 — Keep the excursion in the same cabin as the international award. The Perk preserves the cabin of the surrounding round-trip: if your international legs are economy, the KIX–ICN segment must be economy. A premium-cabin middle segment re-prices the whole itinerary as a new award, and the zero-mile benefit disappears. Treat any cabin difference as a fresh award decision, not a free add-on.
Rule 5 — Audit the emailed fare calculation before accepting. ANA emails the fare calculation with every ticketed award. The KIX–ICN line must read zero additional miles. If it shows 15,000, the agent built two separate awards instead of one Excursionist Perk itinerary — ask ANA to re-ticket before accepting. Accepting that line locks in the error.
The table below is the same decision tree in compact form.
| Decision point | Check | If it fails |
|---|---|---|
| Rule 1: Route | Osaka–Seoul leg already in your planned routing | Rebook as one PNR — separate award costs 15,000 ANA miles |
| Rule 2: Zone | 2026 award table: KIX and ICN in same Japan–Korea zone | Stop before calling ANA; a zone change ends the Perk |
| Rule 3: Availability | KIX–ICN saver seat exists on target date | Move the date before building the round-trip |
| Rule 4: Cabin | Excursion cabin matches international award cabin | Reprice as a new award; the Perk covers no upgrade |
| Rule 5: Ticket | Fare calculation line shows 0 additional miles for KIX–ICN | Ask ANA to re-ticket under Excursionist Perk before accepting |
Run Rules 2 and 3 for your target dates before calling ANA. If both pass, book the entire round-trip and its KIX–ICN middle segment in one PNR, then audit the fare calculation email before accepting.
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What to do next
| Step | Action | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Log in to your ANA Mileage Club account and open the Excursionist Perk award search. | You need to see real-time availability and your mileage balance before planning further. |
| 2 | Search round-trip award space on ANA's website for KIX-ICN on your target dates. | If no seats are released, the published Perk rate won't help you. |
| 3 | Read the ANA award chart for Japan-to-Korea under the Excursionist Perk terms. | Confirm the mileage amount matches the guide; the Perk is a discounted add-on, not a free ticket. |
| 4 | Check the same dates on Google Flights for a cash fare on KIX-ICN. | Compare what the miles are worth against a paid ticket before committing. |
| 5 | Verify every sector lands inside the 18-month validity window for the Excursionist Perk. | A segment outside the window can invalidate the add-on and raise the total cost. |
| 6 | Build the full itinerary on ANA's website with the main award flight and the KIX-ICN segment together. | Adding the segment in the same reservation locks in the Excursionist Perk mileage rate. |
Frequently Asked Questions
What should you know about the fare-rule trick: how osaka–seoul becomes a 0-mile add-on?
For 2026, the fare rule makes Osaka Kansai–Seoul Incheon cost 0 additional miles if it is built into the same award as ORD–KIX–ICN–ORD.
What is the key to the publishing number: ana's award table puts kix?
ANA’s Mileage Award Table, effective 1 January 2026 at ana.co.jp, prices a one-way Japan–Korea award at 15,000 ANA miles in economy.
What is the key to decision spotlight?
The winner is the single PNR with exactly one excursion.
What is the key to what the data doesn't tell you?
The 15,000-mile price is a fixed mileage rate, not a cash fare.
What is the key to the fine print: when the 'free' osaka?
The Excursionist Perk is not a free stopover in Osaka; it is a free one-way between your arrival city and your departure city inside the same zone.
What is the key to worked case: ord–kix / kix–icn / icn–ord on one ana record?
ORD–KIX / KIX–ICN / ICN–ORD in one PNR is the canonical Excursionist Perk booking, with KIX–ICN at 0 additional miles.
Quick answers
| What happens if KIX–ICN is booked as a separate award record? | ANA treats it as a standalone one-way award, costing 15,000 ANA miles. |
| What is required for the Excursionist Perk to make KIX–ICN cost 0 additional miles? | The entire itinerary must be created in one reservation before ticketing, with the canonical routing ORD–KIX / KIX–ICN / ICN–ORD in one PNR. |
| According to the article, what did United do to the Excursionist Perk? | United ended the perk. |
| How many excursions are allowed per round-trip award under ANA’s Excursionist Perk? | There is exactly one excursion allowed per round-trip award. |
| What is the published one-way Japan–Korea award price in economy per the ANA Mileage Award Table effective 1 January 2026? | 15,000 ANA miles in economy. |
Sources: Thepointsguy, Frequentmiler, Thriftytraveler, Princeoftravel, Awardwallet
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