Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
What about someplace else in the Middle East?
You could do JFK-oAMM-xMAD-xLHR-oMCT-xLHR-SIN or substitute DXB for MCT. If you wanted just to do the LHR-MCT turnaround (really not a bad experience) you could add a day in AMM, since LHR-MCT departs in the morning, and MCT-LHR leaves at midnight. That would give you 5 hours in the T5 arrivals lounge to shower and nap before heading to T3 for the Qantas flight.
(AMM-xMAD-LHR on 19 October, LHR-xMCT-LHR on 20 Oct. returning 0645 on the 21st, then LHR-SIN.)
So stop in Amman and maybe stop in Muscat (or Dubai or Abu Dhabi)?
I did a turn through DXB last year (HEL-LHR-DXB-LHR-HKG with bags in storage at LHR T3 instead of checking them LHR-xDXB-LHR). Is the MCT turn the same sort of thing?
I had been trying to avoid a terminal change at LHR, but I guess it's unavoidable with the flight schedules through the cities I've been looking at.