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Old Feb 20, 2015 | 2:57 am
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Originally Posted by zoombee
You have more than 16 segments so it's not a valid itin.
Yeah, I see. don't know how that happened; it was 16 when I first constructed it. Must have been some of the changes I made along the way. OK, I'll have to rework that down to 16.

Edited to add: Done. Changed DFW-SEA-LAX to DFW-LAX.


Originally Posted by zoombee
FYI: if you you do LAX-xLHR-MCT-LHR instead of LAX-LHR-MCT-LHR then the xLHR-MCT can be an AA codeshare (plus you'll save some taxes: but you won't get that first stop in London of course).
Great idea!! I don't need that stop.


Originally Posted by zoombee
If you're happy to skip Doha at the start, JNB-HKG-BKK is slightly more miles and I believe ~$250 less in YQ.
Hmmm. I did it that way to bring the itinerary within §3.2.2, as in Africa-Middle East (transfer)-Asia (stop)-N.A. (stop)-Europe-Middle East-Africa.

If I skip DOH at the start, then I'm stuck with §3.2.3, which means no flown sectors between Europe and M.E.; so I'd have to fly N.A.-M.E. at the end, right? That seems to cost me the 12K bonus on my TATL (which I would have done with BA or AA) as well as the TATL F cabin (no TATL F on QR) if I try to do this in F.

There are far greater minds on FT at this than mine, -- thank you for continued assistance!!

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