Originally Posted by
Chesil
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The flight routing I have come up with so far (and which the AA RTW desk has very helpfully validated) is:
OSL-DOHx-SGN-PNH//HAN-HKG-AKL-SYD-HNL-DFWx-YVR-LHR-DXB-LHRx-OSL
2. Are there any sensible ways to optimise the earning of BA new tier points?
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Thanks much in advance.
A simple change is to replace SYD-HNL (earns on QF as 25% * 5066 miles = 1267 BA new tier points) with SYD-HND-HNL (earns on JL as 50% * 8691 miles = 4345 BA new tier points). This is possible as the rules allow you two entries and two exits to/from Asia.
It would be better also to fly from North America into Helsinki on AY - maybe change to YVR-SEA-HEL-DXB (AS, AY and AY respectively). The sequence SEA-HEL-DXB will earn you 7602 miles*50% = 3801 new tier points, whereas YVR-LHR-DXB on BA/AA will earn only a small fraction of this (as an estimate, for a total trip of 40000 miles and price of 5500 GBP something like (8144/40000)*5500 = 1120 new tier points). Doing though will mean that you won't be able to use the AA RTW desk for ticketing, so unless you are really interested in maximizing BA new tier point collection perhaps not worth the extra effort re: ticketing.
Note that those two changes use up your 2 extra segments