<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by eamus:
BNE-ADL-MEL-NRT-ORD-DFW-LAS-LAX-BNE is 21,995 miles but only 690 SCs unless I cannot count. 'Course on the downside you are on AA not CX ....</font>
I make that 690 SC's (when I use the correct values)
- BNE-ADL = 60 (1007m)
- ALD-MEL = 30 (399m)
- MEL-NRT = 160 (5060m)
- NRT-ORD = 160 (6274m)
- ORD-DFW = 30 (802m)
- DFW-LAS = 60 (1055m)
- LAS-LAX = 30 (236m)
- LAX-BNE = 160 (7161m)
Total SC = 690.
That's probably worth the AA international sector. Their J is not all that bad on the 777 - and they have the Bose headphones.
I would probably do it in reverse just because it will make more sense for me to visit DFW before ORD, but that won't affect the earnings.
Another options I just tought of is breaking DFW-ORD into DFW-STL-ORD, making it 808 miles in two segments. That will put the NRT routing over by 2 miles! But the YVR-HGK routing can then get up to 670 SC's and remain under 22,000 miles (21,941). So for a difference of only 20 SC's I would probably chose the CX routing rather than AA, but it does give some choice and flight times and connections might come into play.
(edited to fix silly SC calc error)
[This message has been edited by NM (edited Mar 25, 2004).]