oneworld - I'm Set AONE4 almost in the bag

Just wanted to say a big thank you to the OW forum members for the great advice and tips in setting up my AONE4. Only been lurking around here for a couple of months and have learnt so much!

I just got off the phone with the AA RTW desk and my PNR is going down for rating tomorrow (whatever that means).

All I have left to do now is get the thing ticketed, but with all the good reports I have heard on here about Emeco I am feeling quite confident.

Of course I just have to wait until April 06 before it actually kicks off!

Routing, for those that are interested is:

CAI-LHR BA F(break, work does get in the way sometimes)LHR-LAX-AUS AA F (visit friends)
DFW-ORD-SFO AA F [777 from DFW - ORD] (love SFO)
SFO-JFK AA F (just wanted to experience P)
LGA-DFW-YVR AA F (visit friends)
break here and fly back to LHR hopefully using eVIPs on AA :D

YVR-HKG-NRT CX F (Birthday treat in Tokyo)
NRT-HGK-DEL CX F & J (Everyone tells me India is great place to visit)
DEL-HKG-ADL CX J & F (visit friends)
ADL-DRW-PER QF J (because I can and haven't seen PER yet)
PER-MEL QF J (Mum and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary)
MEL-HKG-LHR CX F (Home again James)
LHR-CAI BA F (and sadly it all ends here, unless the next one has been sorted by then)

Looks good - have a good trip!

Just one minor point for miles calculating purposes... DFW-YVR will be in D not A. The service is the same, but AA calls North America International Y/J now, not Y/F.

A question for CX watchers: CX has downgraded several "F" routes in recent times, so I am always waiting for the next shoe to drop. Would you say HKG-ADL is a 'safe' 3-class service route?

Who knows? I'd guess medium-safe while it goes to/from MEL, but if they went to a simple HKG-ADL-HKG I guess that would be 2-class, like PER.

For about US$100 max (can probably find it cheaper), you can go to MEL and buy a ticket to ADL. Besides the class concern, there is also a limited schedule to ADL.