Originally Posted by
pandaperth
Some of my thoughts (feel free to ignore them
)
- I am a big fan of QR's long-haul business class
- I am not a fan of AY's business class (though I've only done short-haul)
- I am not a fan of BA's business class (especially in its old 747s which it has on the NBO-LHR route)
- I loathe BA's fuel fines (USD215 for NBO-LHR in business class)
- I am not a fan of Nairobi (I'm currently in Mombasa, been hanging out here since last November, loving it and will likely head to ZNZ next where I lived for 5 months back in 2016)
- I like to maximise mileage earning, and BIS miles in good business classes
So, perhaps consider
(QR flies to
lots of places in Africa; JRO is close to a number of game parks and of course to Kilimanjaro itself)
Happy travels.
Originally Posted by
anabolism
I'm not sure what you mean by "I'd like to get a little closer to Southern California" as you'll be in LAX twice. If you want to be in Los Angeles a third time you can, e.g., HEL-LAX-JFK-DFW-LAX, or if you'd like to go to San Diego you could do LAX-JFK-DFW-SAN, and I think you have one more segment, so you could fly SAN-LAX-PVR or SAN-PHX-PVR.
Ideally, I would like to get back to Southern California via LAX or SAN, but thought that this rule restricts me: Americas - "Within North America, only one transcontinental flight is allowed between selected cities on the East and West Coasts. "Transcontinental" is defined as a flight between one of ATL/BWI/BOS/CLT/FLL/BDL/MIA/EWR/NYC/ORL/PHL/PIT/SJU/RDU/TPA/YYZ/WAS/PBI and one of LAS/LGB/LAX/OAK/PHX/PDX/SAN/SFO/SJC/SNA/SEA/YVR. "
I just put in DFW because it's not on the above airport list and it is direct from JFK, so it doesn't eat up another segment.
Thanks for the help!