managed to get a reasonable deal - all booked now
need to go to the states for a new job, and at the same time wanted to get my Silver card back, after much searching, and thanks to the people on the forum for ideas, I have booked the following, the only restriction being, that I need to be in Chicago for the week for training for the new job.
LHR-DUB-LHR--PHL-ORD
ORD-JFK-LHR-DUB-LHR
All in Business apart from the inter US sectors which have come up as first, I may not use the last sector, but got the price at £2,300 being that the budget was around £2,000 which was the return cost in Economy for a BA flight going out on the Sunday, so moved the flight to a Saturday, total points should be 560, which should bring back to Silver, as I currently have 70