Originally Posted by
dvs7310
You're pretty much maxed out for a DGLOB34, and you can't use FJ on a DONE4 / 5, so you have to decide if that's your priority. I'm honestly not sure if that ground segment ASP-BNE counts toward your 34,000 miles or not, we don't see a lot of chatter about the DGLOB* tickets on here. Are you driving that segment?
We are taking a flight from ASP to MEL, and will be driving up MEL-BNE. Mileage limitation left me with this option.
Originally Posted by
dvs7310
Your only other option that I see is to convert it to a DONE4, where you can have a lot more miles, but you can't have any FJ segments. That means buying your own way APW-NAN and also finding a different route from NAN-USA, but you could do NAN-SYD-DFW on QF (requires overnight in SYD).
This is an interesting approach, which I didn't think off. Let me see if adding some stops in Asia, would allow me to start the trip in Australia in Darwin as well
Originally Posted by
dvs7310
Ultimately what are you trying to accomplish with this trip? It sounds like going places you really want to go is priority vs. maximizing mileage / TPs, etc. If that's the case, you have a fine itinerary since the south Pacific is harder to incorporate currently in a DONEx until FJ joins OW.
Valid question. On the one end going places we really want to go (Australia, SWP (Samoa, Fiji), but as I'm more than average interested in mileage / points I definitely want to make sure to renew my OW Emerald as well. Both my wife and myself hold status with Iberia (gold), and one of the downsides of the FJ flights is that they don't credit with them.
As I mentioned the DOH/DXB connection is up for debate; happy to split into two trips elsewhere if I can achieve that. We are planning to do this trip april next year, so there is time and BNE-DFW could be an option in that case.