Originally Posted by Pavel
Hi everybody,
am currently planning LOWE5 and am really stuck with my routing. My route so far is:
LHR-GRU-SCL-LIM-LAX....and heres where the problem starts....
1/ on the way to asia I would love to stopover at HNL but there seem to be no OW flights fom there to Asia and as backtraking between Hawaii and US is not allowed it looks I am stuffed. Any suggestions? I have to say though that OWE is a must for me because of 4 segments in South Africa.
2/ anyway if I can't go via HNL than next stop is going to be HKG-PEK-HKG(transit)-BKK...from where I want to do overland to SIN. My next question is: is PEK-HKG-BKK considered as 1 segment or two and also does overland with OWE count as segment or not? The reason I am asking is that from SIN I need to go back to HKG for transit to JNB.
From then on it's pretty simple:
JNB-DUR-CPT-DUR(for personal reasons)-JNB-FRA-LHR.
Any suggestions and answers will be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Pavel
When is your trip? AA has applied for the rights to fly HNL-NRT starting in November. Otherwise you can only fly is HNL-SYD, which changes your route to a LONE6. Might be worth the extra $$ as you have a few extra segments still to use. Try this,
LHR-GRU-SCL-LIM-LAX-HNL-SYD-SIN-BKK-HKG-PEK-HKG-JNB-DUR-CPT-DUR-JNB-MAD-LHR. And if the price is right, start somewhere other than LHR, eg AMS-......MAD-LHR-AMS
If you don't fly to HNL, then you must buy an extra segment since HKG-PEK-PEK-BKG is 3 segments with SIN-HKG being the 4th segment.
Also be aware that if your wish to accumulate FF miles, your opportunities are limited, depending on which oneworld FF program you use.