Just adding a new bullet point, helped a close friend book a new ex-TYO DONE6. Plated on QR stock, $8440 plus agent fee.

HND-DFW(JL)-GRU(JL code AA)-DFW(JL Code AA)-PUJ(AA)-JFK(QR Code AA)-DOH(QR)-CPH(QR)-DOH(QR)-DUB(QR)-DOH(QR)-CPT(QR)-DOH(QR)-AKL(QR)-SYD(QF)-SIN(AY code BA)-HND(JL)

It's an expensive one because DONE6, but he really wanted South America, South Africa, and Oceana. And at the end of the day, it's cheaper than the plan he initially approached me with which was only Asia and Oceana. I love RTWs for this.

He'll get in the vicinity of 180-190k AA miles and LPs from this ticket since only one short segment is AA coded, all others except the AKL-SYD are high earners. (He's starting from only 2k AA LP's but is using the Citi card currently to generate some before the trip) It's not 100% optimized for miles but he wanted a combination of high earnings plus going to some of his bucket list destinations, so is a very pleased man. I'm helping him with some side trips on stopovers now so that will put him well over the 200k for AA EXP even without the card spend. Welcome another AA EXP to the ranks!! (but like me, we're Japan based, so won't take a lot of upgrades away from PPro and below, I end up giving my SWUs to friends more often than not, even converted a very loyal JL friend to AA because of that)