As some of you know I vowed and declared in my passion or addiction TR that there would be no RTW for me this year.
Well that promise to me lasted all of a few weeks. The OW fare sale was too tempting and I found myself planning a RTW in Business class sometime in March.
For the first time in my RTW career I ended up with a routing travelling West to East in order to do the long LHR-SYD sector later in the year.

All was good until that niggling little addiction inside me kept saying ‘it is only xxx pounds per sector to upgrade to First’. I kept telling that little addiction bug to bugger off but he was persistent and finally I weakened and enquired about the cost of upgrading to First.

The original booking was made on the OneWorld website and was issued by CX in Seoul. I enquired via email to the CX UK office about the process and cost of upgrading. They came back with a figure in GBP that was acceptable and were able to charge the fare difference to my original card.

In three weeks I had gone from ‘no way am I doing another RTW this year’ to being the holder of an AONE4 ticket.
This can’t simply be a passion I am sure it is an addiction and a bloody expensive one at that. I admit it I am weak and gave in far too easily but hey now I get to look forward to another year of pointy end travel and have to suffer another mega TR by Moomba.

As you will have noticed the ticket is ex-Seoul and I needed to get myself to ICN in order to start my new adventure.

Now that little addiction bug inside me had pre-planned this as a ‘just in case’ scenario with a weekend in Seoul being the alternative if I didn’t go ahead with another RTW. Back when determining how to get myself back to LHR from JNB at the tail end of the last epic I decided to use an All Partner Award with my AA miles that routed me JNB-LHR-stopover-HKG-ICN all in First on BA, QF and CX respectively.

You will already have read about the first sector of this ticket in my Passion or Addiction TR. Now, on with the rest of this ticket that will take me to South Korea and then the RTW will start in earnest.

Onward and upward

Part 1 - Around the world in 4.5 days Days 1&2 LHR-HKG QF F HKG-ICN CX F
Part 2 - Around the world in 4.5 days Days 3&4 ICN-HKG CX J HKG-JFK CX F
Part 3 - Around the world in 4.5 days Day 5 JFK-LHR AA J
Part 4 - A weekend in YVR with a long detour Day 1 LHR-JFK AA J JFK-LAS AA F
Part 5 - A weekend in YVR with a long detour Day 2 LAS-JFK AA F JFK-YVR CX F
Part 6 - A weekend in YVR with a long detour Day 5 YVR-LHR BA F
Part 7 - A weekend in HEL Day 1 LHR-HEL AY J
Part 8 - A weekend in HEL Day 2/3 HEL-LHR BA J
Part 9 - Will BA redeem themselves? LHR-AUH-MCT BA F
Part 10 - Another decent BA F MCT-AUH-LHR
Part 11 - A whale of a tale QF F LHR-SIN
Part 12 - A whale of a tale part 2 QF F SIN-SYD
Part 13 - Would you like to fly direct Sir? No! QF J SYD-PER-ADL-SYD-MEL
Part 14 - A Whale of a different kind SQ Suites MEL-SIN
Part 15 - Back to wet old London SQ F SIN-LHR
Part 16 - Another flying visit to Oz TG J LHR-BKK-MEL
Part 17 - A quick domestic QF J MEL-SYD
Part 18 - Back in First (where I belong ;-) QF F SYD-HKG
Part 19 - Once more to the Cold I must go - CX F HKG-LHR
Part 20 - A new F experience - LX J LHR-ZRH LX F ZRH-HKG
Part 21 - A Japanese side trip - CX F HKG-KIX
Part 21a - Some Kyoto Photos
Part 22 - Back to Hong Kong - almost over - CX F KIX-HKG
Part 23 - All good things... - CX F HKG - ICN