Hi guys

Back again. Well I didn't do the RTW for my recent trip to the US but I did BA F out and BA J back.

I'm now looking at the RTW with my wife in October-December as I have sabbatical. Our goals are roughly the same:

(1) Maximise time/distance in F for both tier points and experience
(2) Try CX, QA, BA and AA in F.
(3) We want to visit EUR (we live near LHR), NA, Asia and SWP.

Other factors to consider:
(1) We want to bank points in BAEC but avoid BA fuel surcharges
(2) Start as cheaply as possible to ideally KRT
(3) My wife really wants to visit MEL (to see friends) YVR.
(4) I'd like to visit ANC but appreciate it may not be possible

I have a few questions:

- Is ANC unavailable in October? If so what are other good mileage runs in the US? We'd ideally like to spend some time in major cities.
- Will the BD service LHR-BEY-KRT be available in October on BA? It suggests so on their website but is unavailable in the OW Explorer tool.
- I'm struggling with working out the best routings in Europe/Middle East. I think the rules allow a return trip to MCT and a return trip to Sudan but I could be mistaken.

At present my routing is looking like:

(assuming the single BA flight no. on BD works) KRT-LHR-LAX-YVR-JFK-DFW-SFO-SYD-MEL-HKG-SIN-LHR-MCT-LHR-KRT

Help please?