Originally Posted by eamus
Don't you have one more segment in the country of origin? Meaning you can sneak down to ADL at the start to pick up some more SCs on your way to SYD. I think I remember that was tight on mileage when you were looking at a DCIR22 but shouldn't be a problem this time.
Unfortunately the schedule would mean leaving the day before to get into SYD for the QF107 departure at 10:50am. Would need to be into SYD T3 before 8:50am and that's not going to get me BNE-ADL-SYD that morning.
Originally Posted by eamus
One other gag to be aware of is that on BOS-SFO American has started to run some 757s so you may want to choose your flights carefully there to make sure you get the 767s. If you are going to ANC anyway, you don't need to spend any more time on a 757.
Yes, I have noticed that they all seem to be 757 on the day I would be doing it. I am leaning towards the ORD-LAX and overnight there meeting a work collegue for dinner. The LAX-JFK-LHR. That gets me into LHR a few hours earlier than SFO-LHR (8am arrival from JFK vs 11am arrival from SFO) and that leaves me more time (it will be a Saturday) to do a LHR-HEL-LHR run that afternoon (worth 120 SC's).
And by arriving into LHR at 8am, and heading up to HEL for the afternoon, I won't be back into LHR until 18:40. Then I leave for FRA at 16:45 next day, leaving me technically in transit in London and not paying the huge taxes for J class arrival (GBP40 I think). I can spend the night at FRA, catch work collegues for Monday, and head back to LHR to connect to QF10 departure that night.
I wonder if I can check my luggage at ORD for the whole trip home and just put a few changes of clothes into my carry-on?? None of the connections is more than 24 hours (FRA will be 23:45). Baggage tag would be long, reading ORD-LAX-JFK-LHR-HEL-LHR-FRA-LHR-SIN-MEL-SYD-BNE. It probably will nevetr see it again!
I suspect I will have to collect it at LAX, LHR and FRA. Should be able to check through from FRA though.