Originally Posted by RWY02KTM
BKKx-SIN-JNB-FRAx-AMS-ARN-ORDx-DTW-ORDx
-SFO-SEA-ORDx-NYC-BKK
The confusion stems from whether the SEA-NYC segment is considered backtracking or not. While my TA says it's not backtracking (and i agree), the TG people, who have to upgrade the relevent TG sectors for me are not sure.
Shouldn't be back-tracking, since it's within North America.
One observation, though: this routing comes to 30969 miles in the Great Circle Mapper. Yes, the 'official' distance will be different--but _how_ different can it be? In other words, you are right between the Star1 and Star2 limits. You can add 3000 miles more!
cheers,
Henry