Originally Posted by Gardyloo
I played around with it a little and came up with this as a way of using your 6 NA segs, touching your NA destinations (but using a separate but not expensive AS RT on the west coast), and cutting Asia out of the mix. You'd still have a European seg to use in addition (LHR-IST?/HEL?/? -BCN-LHR) or whatever, so I don't think you would lose much mileage.
1 HRE-JNB
2 JNB-NBO
3 NBO-JNB
4 JNB-LHR
5 LHR-BCN
6 BCN-LHR
7 LHR-ORD
8 ORD-ANC
9 ANC-ORD
10 ORD-SEA//
Then separate AS open-jaw (mileage earning but not OWE legal) SEA-LAX or -SFO then LAX/SFO-YVR. Note RT from SEA might be cheaper during cruise season - YVR prices go way up. Train from SEA to YVR is around US$30, 4 hours.
11 YVR-JFK (CX, daytime flight, your transcon)
12 JFK-MIA
13 MIA-JFK
14 JFK-SYD (QF)
15 SYD-AKL
16 AKL-BNE
17 BNE-ADL
18 ADL-SYD
19 SYD-JNB
Thanks for the suggestion. The problem is, I need to be in MIA and LAX before I will be in ANC. Otherwise I would fly to ORD as you suggest and have two more flights to play with in Europe. I will give it more thought, however.
I might be able to get rid of MIA depending of work/study (never been much a fan of Florida anyway), and I'm only going to JFK to see friends (and I've never really been either), so there's a chance I could play around with the NA region a bit more.
Now I
really have to go...