As a light-hearted antidote to the obsession here with maximising mileage on xONEx tickets perhaps we should have a thread where people can come to confess their sins. This could be seen as a cathartic exercise for those driven to despair by the needs of their job, or whatever.

I'll start by confessing that today I approved the purchase of a DONE3 to take me on a business trip with the following routing:

HKG-LHR-NYC-HKG for, er, 17517 miles

I have wasted hours trying to work out how to do something better with it that won't make me look completely mad in front of my colleagues, and failed - they simply don't understand what I am upset about since it is anyway by far the cheapest way to do that routing in business!