Originally Posted by AintSpike
DFW-SFO*-HKG*-NRT*-HKG-SIN-HKG-SYD*-CHC*-BNE*-PER*-MEL*-LHR//MAD-FCO*-HEL-PRG*-LHR-YVR-JFK*-DFW
That surface segment between LHR and MAD is more of an intermission. I'm planning to return home from LHR on a separate ticket, and I'll be traveling to MAD for work soon after. Once my work is complete, I'll finish the remainder of my AONE4.
Now that I think about it, that trip from DFW to MAD will likely entail the return leg of my LHR-DFW ticket combined with an LHR-MAD-LHR round-trip. Might as well just resume the AONE4 from LHR.
- QF or BA from MEL to LHR?
- Any suggestions for a twentieth segment? The only thing I've come up with is changing the first segment to DFW-ORD-SFO. Pretty much everything else I tried breaks a rule or would require me to buy a fifth segment in Asia, Europe, or SWP.
- What do I do once I'm ready to book this? Just call up AA and ask for the xONEx gurus?
Any other suggestions/improvements are certainly welcome.
If I was doing this I would just buy a separate ticket for one of your EUR routes and save the EUR segments to fly BA F to DXB. Using your AONE segments to fly in Club Europe seems like such a waste especially when you could fly to Prague or Rome for a reasonable price.
For QF or BA MEL-LHR I would also pick BA but search this forum and you will find others that liked QF.
For Booking call the RTW desk. Here's a thread with phone numbers.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=390790
Instead of reading the entire route off to them over the phone, I usually call, tell them what I'm doing then fly the itinerary to the attention of the agent I was talking to then call back later.
You are probably aware of this but it is substantially cheaper to start in any number of other countries. If there is any way for you to rearrange your schedule so that you start from CAI, WAW, or some spots in Asia I would do it.