Originally Posted by
dvs7310
Don't know if that AKL-SYD-HKG was intentional for TPs or lack of availability on CX, but if the later just keep an eye on EF. CX doesn't seem to be too stingy on AKL-HKG with D from what I've seen and it's a better experience than QF in my opinion. I just did it the opposite direction a little over a week ago and like CX's A350 much better than QF's A330s or 787s. (plus crew is night and day different)
That was the original plan A , but CX hadn’t released their schedule when I booked it. However, it appeared last week. It is operating on the day we intend to leave AKL but ‘Trip CEO’ is not keen on the 21.15 arrival time at HKG…plus we get another 40TPs (that we won’t need to re-qualify for Gold anyway). Not sure where I’d use the spare segment now given our arrangements for OSL? I was thinking of dropping the last segment by flying LHR>DOH>LHR>OSL at the end but I’ve now nested the RTW within a holiday booking to OSL, and I have no time for additional stopovers on the itinerary.
From one perspective, our RTW is a 5.5 week (very) expensive TP run…….although that’s really a by-product of the trip we wanted to do anyway.