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Old Aug 3, 2014 | 9:17 am
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beardoc
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It's actually a series of routes, but melded together it was

JNB-DUR (D, BA)
DUR-JNB-CPT (D, BA)

CPT-JNB (D, BA)
JNB-DOH-PHL (D, QR)

PHL-PHX (A, US)

PHX-DEN (Y, US)
DEN-PHX-SFO (Y, US)
SFO-PHX (Y, US)

PHX-BOS (A, US)
BOS-LAX (A, AA)
LAX-CLT (A, US)

CLT-SJU (Y, US)

SJU-MIA-LAX-HNL (I/A/A, AA)
HNL-LAX-MIA-SJU (A/A/I, AA)
SJU-MIA-LAX-HNL (I/A/A, AA)
HNL-LAX-MIA-SJU (A/A/I, AA)
SJU-MIA-LAX-HNL (I/A/A, AA)
HNL-LAX-MIA-SJU (A/A/I, AA)

SJU-CLT-DCA (Y, US)
DCA-CLT (Y, US)

CLT-PDX (A, US)
PDX-DFW (A, AA)

DFW-HKG (D, AA)

HKG-DEL (D, CX)

DEL-KUL-SYD (D, MH)

That put me at 5070 TPs.

The DONE5 is JNB-DOH-PHL-PHX-BOS-LAX-CLT-PDX-DFW-HKG-DEL-NRT-CDG-HEL-BCN-LHR-CPT - I still have sectors to fly. I think this was 2290 TPs just from the DONE5 alone.

The BA/Comair Sectors were to get the 4 eligible sectors first.

The US Y segments are just because I wanted to visit those cities, or to position in SJU for the TP runs to HNL

And then there's SJU-HNL return 3 times.

It was fun, I had a blast. The DONE5 was competitive because of the intra-US flights. Unfortunately the rule changes this month mean that flights through CLT and PHX on US that are over 2000 miles are now considered transcontinental, and so this couldn't be replicated today, sadly. It was in a short window period where US got added but they left PHX and CLT off the list of US transcon cities.

I do a DONE4 or DONE5 each year, and next year I plan to optimise for TPs again. It's not too hard - I have a plan as to how I'm going to do it, but haven't worked it out yet.

SJU-HNL-SJU flights were around US$1300-1500 each time. The DONE5 was about US$9000 but that includes the Asia/Europe/South Africa segments I haven't flown yet. All inclusive of taxes. About US$900 on the economy flights (short notice bookings). And I think it was about US$2000 for the MH DEL-SYD-DEL flights.

Any more details, just ask.
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