Originally Posted by greenmeadie

I did the OTP-PHX run last year thanks to this fantastic thread, and I'm hoping to do it again this year to stay at Gold (the avios bonus is addictive!). I've looked on ITA but the pricing seems to come up at over 3k.

I need to do UK-LAX early April (say 3rd/4th), and return middle of June (11th/12th), but have a lot of flexibility on the actual dates. I looked at the routing OTP-LHR-HEL-JFK-LAX-PHX and back but wasn't able to find the fare circa £1k. Any thoughts/tips? Thanks so much! I'm aiming to get just over 1k tier points.