Which is the whole reason for creating a list. If we were normal people, we would decide where to go, and find a plane to get us there. The timetable works great on telling you if you can get from A to B on a certain date. It's not so great for telling you that there are other ways. My next ONE only needs to include a few places: NYC, LAX, ANC, LON, DXB, and AKL. I could do it all in 9 sectors, but where would the fun in that be? I can use it to visit everyone else, run up some mileage, and have a little fun.

LHR-SEZ is a flight that saves me a segment on my next AONE5. The only reason I found it was running a list like this. (Of course, that requires NBO to reopen....) LGA-TUL is another one, and no date I had ever fed into the timetable showed me that it existed.

What I really need is a sortable list with miles credited, but I'm not to the point where I can create that.

With the limit of 20 sectors, it has become critical that I keep counts down, and finding a way to make two flights into one makes that possible. Considering that the next trip has to include NZ (to pick up the kid) and Africa (long overdue promise), as well as the business that pays for the trip (NYC, LON, LAX, SYD) sector count is critical.

Of course, I've handed this over to my slightly compulsive thirteen year old to figure out. I do the flying, he gets the miles, so I now let him worry about routings. He's really quite mad that the SJU-YVR flight doesn't seem to exist, he had quite a schedule figured out with that as the one trans-continental. My having to tell him that MCO is ORL is probably not going to help!

I'll have the other half of the list on line sometime tomorrow, and maybe even in a usable, sorted fashion. I've got BA somewhere, and if anyone can get me a .pdf file for IB or WF, I can add them to the madness.

Mark, who has taught more geography with airline schedules than the boys have ever learned in school.