Fare is dependent on miles and fits into 22K, 26K or 29K. I am hoping to fit under 22K.

Basically you need to cross the Pacific by north (ie Asia-USA) and South (AU/NZ-USA or AU/NZ-Chile) and keep travelling in the same clockwise or anti-clockwise direction. Some other limits on stopovers in the same city etc.

I would love to make it a DONE4, but since I will be paying the difference between a B or K fare BNE-LAX-DFW-ORD-LAX-BNE, I want to keep to least expensive way to travel in J and score some SC's at the same time.

If I use SAT or ACT instead of DFW I will have a long drive to get to Fort Worth, but that is not impossible. I could always fly into DFW and then out of SAT, making this look attractive:

BNE-LAX-LAS-DFW
SAT-ORD-YVR-HKG-BNE

This would be 21,957 miles and 630 SC's.

Might as well avoid the DFW-SAT drive and go:

BNE-LAX-SAN-LAX-LAS-DFW-ORD-YVR-HKG-BNE

for 21,935 miles flown and 640 SC's. I can even arrange a meal with some friends in SAN area while I pass through. Thanks for the tip of adding LAS into the LAX-DFW routing. Of course the down side of that is the use of AA's MD80 rather than 777 for LAX-DFW. I wonder how desperate I am for the extra SC's?

(edited to fix silly SC calc error)

[This message has been edited by NM (edited Mar 25, 2004).]