Originally Posted by NM
If you are willing to add an o/night stop in HKG, then why not add the o/night at JFK. Head BOS-JFK one afternoon/evening, stay overnight ready for the JFK-NRT flight the following morning.
Otherwise go ahead and buy the 26,000 mile fare. But by the time you get to that fare cost, a DONE4 becomes attractive
. It all comes down to how you rate the importance of cost verses time, and only you can answer that one.
Yes, may end up going to JFK the night before (Amtrak maybe, I have points there too) and doing JFK-NRT-SYD-BNE-LAX-BOS (21829) on a DCIR22.
If I do go to the 26000 mile fare it is still signifcantly less than a DONE4. DCIR26 is $5900, DONE4 is $7400.
DCIR22 is $4900.
Although the DONE4 appears to allow a rather nice routing BOS-LAX-SYD-BNE-CNS-HKG-LHR-BOS which gets into BOS early afternoon rather than late at night if coming from LAX.