Gardyloo: I reviewed MCT for that very reason but I found it it to be pretty dull, offered very few really nice hotels and it looked like a third world country with nothing to do. DXB on the other hand...

I realise there's a good chance of 757L to ANC by September next year but for the possibility that I might get one of the old ones I'm not so keen.

Aaupgrade: ANC doesn't really interest me having just recently done a 8 day Inside Passage cruise through Alaska from Seattle. The hotels look disgusting in ANC as well.

A friend of mine went to AUA recently (via a YUP/KUP SC run that I organised for him from SFO). Said he would never go back again, reckons it was a dump. BGI is certainly worth my while visiting but thats the sort of place I'd go to on a YUP/KUP fare from the West coast. On a OWE it also only racks up D SCs and old 757s again.

The reason for ORD was partly because I would like to go there for a couple of days, but also because the connecting flight to DFW is a 777 (Int'l config with F suite).

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