Originally Posted by spotwelder
You may have to watch where you stop/change on the trip. If you were looking for BA status points then we could do a little better I think. Again, you would have to pick your flights to get the real First and not AA business first where possible.
The combination of LAX and MCO looks a bit "Mickey Mouse" to me
Your routes around Asia and South West Pacific are not optimal coupon use but if you had to do business in that order then OK. However, for fun, there are better ways. You can go into NRT off the US and then down to HKG or TPE from there. You could go SIN-MEL and skip HKG again. You could go HKG to AKL but that is J/Y only and then into Australia if you wanted to save a coupon.
So where are you going to go to with all these extra coupons?
To be honest, this was a routing I was playing round with for fun, as it's likely going to be 2006 before Mrs Efin and I could even think about something like this (by which point, no doubt the OW members will have changed, along with routes etc). I'd like to know the maximum tier points I could manage for the routing, as well as keeping it reasonably interesting. Asia can change, as well as SWP, but the US routing was mainly for visiting destinations (NYC, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Orlando) with a nice little trip to Aruba fro some sun and fun
. The JFK-LAX route was put in as I think it's one (if not the only) route AA still sometimes run a three-class service on. As the route is based on a AONE4, i'd like to get the maximum travel up front in F as possible
. Any help with my fantasy trip is appreciated though