Thanks all

We'l be crossing the South Pacific via the EZE-AKL route missing out of Easter Island and Tahiti :-(.

The reason for all this Santiago hub'ing is that we are restricted to going to Rio for certain dates.

I'm definetly going for the challenge with AA, couldn't convince my wife to do it though, she'll be sticking with BA (and only get silver ;-) )

Darren, the Guayaquil - (Lima - Santaigo) - Lima *
is actually 2 segements since the first flight goes through Lima, bit of a long way around but at least it gives us the miles.

Furthermore we'll be doing Caracas instead of Rio as that gives us more miles ;-), got the miles with Varig to do the Rio trip anyway.

One more question though, if we do the Hong Kong (London) Beirut with 8 hours stop in LHR does the the LHR - Beu bit count as a segement in Europe?

Thanks again,

Jupeter