Originally Posted by
MadProfessor
- 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.
Yes, AA's flights to ANC are seasonal. They stop at the end of September. AS flights are not available on the Oneworld Explorer ticket, only the Global Explorer which is mileage limited.
- 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.
The BD flights won't be available to book on any oneworld ticket until they change over to BA. I don't think that happens until the
end of October.
- 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.
If you're starting in Europe/Middle East, you have a limited amount of stopovers there (one stopover outbound, one inbound) and only 4 sectors in Europe/Middle East total.
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?
You can't do LAX-YVR on a Oneworld Explorer as it is an AS route.
There is no oneworld flight SFO-SYD. There is DFW-SYD (via BNE), but does not have first class.
SYD-HKG has first class on the days it is operated by an A380.
MEL-HKG doesn't have First.
You have too many sectors in Europe and too many LHR-middle east flights. You can only have two flights to/from LHR and ALBANIA, ALGERIA, BOSNIA
& HERZEGOVINA, BULGARIA, CROATIA, CYPRUS, GREECE, ISRAEL, LIBYA,
MALTA, MIDDLE EAST, MOROCCO, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SERBIA, TUNISIA, TURKEY, UKRAINE.
eg, I can do AMM-MAD-LHR-DXB-LHR, but I can't do AMM-LHR-MCT-AUH-LHR or AMM-LHR-DXB-LHR
I would look at doing KRT-AMM-ORD-DFW-YVR-JFK-ORD/DFW-LAX-MEL-SYD-HKG-SIN-LHR-MCT-AMM-KRT This limits BA fuel taxes and has one more flight available to use in either SWP, Asia or North America.