I was actually looking at DXB options last night when I noticed it was in the next zone for SCs from CDG/MAD/GVA.
The last time I had a terminal change connection at LHR was in September 2008, shortly after T5 opened. Connected from BA52 to IB3177 (T5-T3), and BA551 to QF32 (T5-T4) a week later. Has anything changed since then?
If I’m going to fly LHR-HKG, I’m going to want to get QF30. Combined with the return positioning flights, that will get me my 4th ~ and confirm the Gold Retain or Platinum Earn for my Aug10-Jul11 year.
I put this into the planner:
CMB-SIN CX0710 17JUL
SIN-NRT JL0710 17JUL
NRT-HKG JL0731 25JUL
HKG-JFK CX0830 27JUL
--QFF SC Rollover--
JFK-DFW AA0855 02AUG
DFW-MCO AA1434 05AUG
MCO-DFW AA1589 08AUG
DFW-SEA AA2033 08AUG
SEA-JFK AA0268 09AUG
JFK-CDG AA0044 09AUG
CDG-HEL AY0872 12AUG
HEL-LHR AY0831 14AUG
LHR-DXB BA0107 14AUG
DXB-LHR BA0106 15AUG
LHR-HKG QF0030 15AUG
HKG-CMB CX0711 16AUG
43,664 miles
440SC before rollover (earning gold), 1270SC after (+75 for planned return position flight) Leaves me 55 short of earning platinum, but I could get that with a CBR-MEL-AKL-MEL-CBR later in the year.
Only thing is, this routing added quite a lot to the taxes...
764,900.00 + 111,351.00 = 876,251.00 LKR
Surcharge 47,018.00 LKR
Immigration and Naturalization Service Fee 805.00 LKR
Multiple Surcharges 138.00 LKR
Hong Kong Air Passenger Departure Tax 1,792.00 LKR
U.S. International Transportation Tax - Departure 3,702.00 LKR
Passenger Service Facilities Charge - Japan 2,621.00 LKR
French Airport Solidarity Tax 1,575.00 LKR
Airline Insurance Surcharge 1,288.00 LKR
U.S. Customs Fee 633.00 LKR
U.S. Animal and Plant Inspection Service Users Fee 575.00 LKR
French Airport Tax 1,772.00 LKR
Finland - Security Charge - Domestic and International 553.00 LKR
Multiple Surcharges 31,360.00 LKR
Finland - Passenger Fee - International 1,520.00 LKR
Passenger Facility Charges 518.00 LKR
Passenger Service Charge for France 1,595.00 LKR
UK Passenger Service Charge 8,092.00 LKR
Tax description unavailable (OISE) 643.00 LKR
Aviation Civile Tax 648.00 LKR
September 11th Security Fee 1,152.00 LKR
Sri Lanka Embarkation Tax Colombo 1,500.00 LKR
International Arrival Transportation Tax (USA) 1,851.00 LKR
111,351.00 LKR
