Originally Posted by
babs
now a little bit of a change to the previous itn
waw-lhr-cai-lhr-sin-bom-hkg-dps-hkg-jfk-yvr-mex-yvr-ord-sfo-lhr-waw
Now instead of going to Dallas I thought I would go to Mexico and use the JAL 11/12 which would be at least reasonable seats for 5 hours and earn 100 status credits on QFF also another weird thing was that JFK-YVR and YVR-MEX are according to great circle mapper the same distance 2449 interesting i thought
I noticed AA have brought back ord-yvr which is handy as that was the only reason I was going through dallas before, and LAX is not high on the list it was just to use a segment and I have never been to mexico
now status credits wise fore NA i would get the following
jfk-yvr 100, yvr-mex - 100, yvr-ord - 80, ord-sfo-120 so for the continent 500 not too bad, now I assume if JAL cancel service to mexico they will rerout me through Dallas anyway so I should get some extra status credits that way
The problem is there is no SIN-BOM. In terms of SCs, 500 is not bad but you can get more than 800 SCs in North America if you would optimize for that. The other disadvantage of your itinerary is that you are missing out on a lot of QF bonus points for the CX and JL flights.
The good thing of course is that you have lots of nice flights and go do great places.