Originally Posted by jerry a. laska
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.
Good point. I keep forgetting that EUR is so generously defined for xONEx. I had included HEL for miles and for the chance to try AY, but this might be a better choice.
For QF or BA MEL-LHR I would also pick BA but search this forum and you will find others that liked QF.
I'm kinda leaning toward BA after reading some of those search results (and a terrific trip report by the legendary Seat2A over on the Trip Reports forum). Perhaps I can get a taste of QF F on that HKG-SYD segment.
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.
I have considered this, but the logistics are tough. My hands are tied by work right now; I have my boss's blessing to take a 5-week sabbatical this spring, but I have to make it fit in a window of opportunity on my current project which has an as-yet-undefined start date. Once I get the green light, I might have as little as a week to finalize plans, book this ticket, find hotel rooms, tie up loose ends at the office, etc., before I have to start. In my mind, it's worth the extra cash just to take one less scheduling headache off the table up-front.