Originally Posted by
hsmall
Thank you both very much. On further investigation it seems that there are only occasional direct flights about two days in the month for the next couple of months. Then they vanish. Back to the drawing board as we cannot make a side trip without putting in a stopover rather than a transfer at KUL, which in our case we have not got!
What's preventing you from having the stopover at KUL vs. BKI? MH flies DPS-KUL and both MH and JL fly KUL-NRT, within an hour of each other actually. I'd actually strongly prefer the A350 on MH vs. 767 on JL but I have to take JL on that route because the difference in earnings in AAdvantage.
Is the issue because you'd be wasting a segment? I don't think that's a big deal if you are otherwise getting what you want on the itinerary. I have no problem with a 14 or 15 segment DONEx when there's no longer a practical use for the 'wasted' segments. If you want the segment that badly you could do LHR-HKG-KUL-DPS.