Originally Posted by
aaaxton
Hi all,
Been reading this forum for a long time but first time posting here
Due to BAEC rule changing i'm planning my very first DONE3 trip in May. After reading this super helpful thread and some quick research i'm now trying to look into this route, starting from japan:
HND-SIN-oHKG-DOH-oMAD-DOH-oLHR-DOH-LAX-oSFO-oANC-SEA-oJFK-HND
My goal is to maximise total miles travaled so I can try to reach BA gold under the new system. If i did the calculation correctly this route should provide me ~19k new BA TP, only 1k more needed to gold
I tried to validate this route on the xONEx online tool but it told me "You can take only one flight from Alaska to any city in US and one flight to Alaska from any city in US.", and the choose flight button was grayed out.
i'm confused:
1. Is my current route valid? I believe i'm allowed to fly from the mainland to alaska and back. Am i wrong?
2. The online tool refused to price the ticket due to the error above so i guess i have to call someone to issue ticket? I'm now considering JL as I've read in this thread that AA may refuse ticketing if theres no transoceanic flight on AA, or QR may refuse it if theres multiple transfer at DOH, are these still the case?
3. Any suggestions to my current route would be super helpful. It would be great if i can get 1k more new BA TP on this trip
It would be really great if any of my questions could be answered, and thank you all in advance as this thread has already helped me a lot
The online tool is buggy! But the rules clearly state "Additionally, only one flight to Anchorage (ANC) and one flight from Anchorage (ANC) permitted." You have to book by calling sadly.
Yes, AA need an AA-marketed flight to cross Pacific / Atlantic which contradicts the goal of maximising new Tier Points. I am solving this by using a Travel Agent hopefully.
To explicitly
maximise miles you could do something like (with o I think meaning a layover rather than stopover)
HND-DEL-oHND-SIN-oHND-oDOH-CMN-oDOH-LIS-oDOH-LAX-ORD-SEA-JFK-ANC-JFK-HND
That's 61k miles as per
gcpmap and most of these you can get JAL / DOH / AY codeshares for pretty much all of them? So 30k nTP which is overkill for the new Gold (and wouldn't get you anything towards GGL because that requires BA-marketed flights I believe?)