I’m not sure if this really qualifies within the “rules” of this thread, but I hope it can be indulged as using the same problem-solving creativity.

I need to to travel to Budapest in early September. I notice it’s not quite a SH+ destination, so my thought was to optimise TPs by flying somewhere a little further from LON, then making a quick hop back to BUD (and reverse this for the return). The latter sectors can be on any airline, OW would be a bonus but not essential, low cost would be fine even (will be travelling HBO).

I can include a Saturday in the schedule if need be; I need to be in BUD by Sunday evening; return on Wednesday ideally.

I drew a bit bit of a blank finding routings that worked and didn’t have terrible connection times. Any brilliant ideas out there?