Hi.

It's been a couple of years since my last RTW so I'm a little out of practice. Below is my proposed AONE4 starting this August. I'm a Qantas FF (Platinum).

HND-HKG-LHR-DXB-LHR-MCT-LHR-oSFO-ORD-oLAS-ORD-oLAX-MIA-oJFK-oHKG-GCK-NRT

I'm doing this trip to maximise the miles on an AONE4...

My actual destinations are SFO, LAX, JFK, HKG.

At the end of the journey I'll be breaking the trip for a couple of months in HKG to return back to Oz. CX are starting 1x daily 77W flights HKG-CGK with F in late October. I realise that JL are withdrawing F from GCK to NRT soon, so that'll have to be in J but this is the best that I can do for the intra-asia part.

My other question is in regard to the intra-US segments. I need to have as many of them as possible >1500 miles and obviously one trans-con as well. (Although the trans-con will only earn 75 SC from 1st May this year ) I picked the LAX-MIA segment as it has a 3-class service once a day (AA68) so I assumed that I'd get the First SCs. But then I read this in the QFF T&C

"# Effective for travel on or from 11 January 2017, American Airlines will only allow flight bookings in A, F and P classes within the US for flights between New York and San Francisco and between New York and Los Angeles when these routes are operated by a three-cabin aircraft to earn at First Frequent Flyer Earn Category."

Would I be better of just flying LAX-JFK? If so where would the 'spare' segment be most beneficial? Would I be better flying from LAX to JFK via DFW and scrapping the whole trans-con, given that its only going to get me 75 SC anyway?

Thoughts?

Thx in advance,

Medicus

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