Originally Posted by
babs
Longer routes in Asia? I guess the only two i know of are nrt-del and nrt-cgk just over 3600 I have been nrt-del and soon will go nrt-cgk, but I kind of wanted to go some different places I guess. Its very interesting trying to decide.
Those are the only routes over 3600 miles. But there are other long onces just shy of 3600 like NRT-DPS.
Originally Posted by
babs
For NA I was considering maybe the Caribbean but not sure where is good and what flights are good value for status credits etc any suggest greatly appreciated ?
Caribbean always books into Business Class. Reliably, there are long flights from SJU like SJU-LAX at 3300 miles but this counts as a trans continental flight. AFAIK nothing over 3600 miles. Occasionally there are some one stop, single flight number services from other islands as well which then are over 2400 miles and make good SC opportunities even so they are in business.
A lot of services are not return flights but either just to an island or from an island so you need to search in both directions. An example for this would be ANU-LAS (AA1906) at just under 3600 miles and not counting as a trans con.
Originally Posted by
babs
i guess though I find SWP a waste of a continent I say this before experiencing AA domestic in US, but the Qantas flights in Business domestic are pretty average compared to what you can get international in Asia, and really I dont mind sitting in economy for a flight from syd-per as business is not brilliant. I guess SWP would be better value if Air pacific was in oneworld and you could get out to fiji.
QF Domestic J is much better than AA (unless you compare a QF 734 to an AA 767). Acutally, QF has one of the best domestic business products anywhere especially when you are on an intentional config A330.
And I'd rather sit in QF J than JL or CX J in their regional configuration which is not great for long flights like HKG-BOM.