Originally Posted by
sofasurfer
You can't do a stopover in Europe with BD - but you could try to engineer a <24h layover, and get a day/overnight in MUC to catch up with friends... if your first (proper) stop is going to be the UK, I suspect this should be workable for a few UK final destinations

Oops, didn't realise about the no stopover in europe rule. OK, let's scrub that idea.
Any other input wrt which carrier would be best?
tb