<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by christep:
The only in addition to these two comments is that you can only have two stopovers in Europe (where a stopover is defined as a gap between consecutive flights of 24 hrs or more). So you couldn't, for example, stopover in HEL and on both occasions in LHR. One of these would have to be a transit (i.e. less than 24 hrs). </font>
Thanks Christep - the HEL stop will be for 3 hours to connect to the LHR flight. The +24hr stops will be between this flight and going to DXB, & then between DXB & LAX flights.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ExMo:
You can do this without dropping any of your European segments if you go back to HKG after SIN, thus using your fourth Asian segment, and then take the daily CX flight from HKG-CDG.
It looks like you have decided to do the AA Gold and Platinum challenges. Flying business, you should make PLT after the DXB-LHR segment. The challenges are based on Q-points, not flight miles. Traveling business class multiplies the actual flight miles by 1.25 to arrive at Q-points. CDG-HEL-LHR-DXB-LHR is a little over 9,000 miles and puts you over the 10,000 Q-points required for PLT. Congratulations!!!</font>
Thanks for this
The turn around time in SIN to get back for the CDG flight is 1 hour 5 minutes & I'm not sure this is long enough even without luggage. I may have to change it to HKG-NRT-HKG instead.
I didn't know about the Q-Points and had been working on the miles. BA offer me 1180 points & 89274 miles, compared with EXP through AA & 104k miles !! Doing the challenge seems to pay off !!
I've changed the USA flights to maximise the miles:-
LAX ORD (overnight here)
ORD MIA
MIA JFK
JFK SEA (transcon one) (overnight here)
SEA DFW
DFW YVR