Originally Posted by phillipas
Just one thing you need to remember, whilst you will be travelling on an 'A' ticket, not all of your flights will offer 'A' and you will end up in 'D' on some of them - certainly the flights within Australia, and IIRC the USA-Canada flights.
The basics in terms of miles are that, as Plat (or indeed Exec Plat), if the flight is booked in 'A' you will get distance*2.5, if the flight is booked in 'D' you will get distance*2.25.
If you do all of your 2nd AONE* in 2006 you will have no problem getting Exec Plat - which gives Exec Plat untill Feb 2008, Plat until 2009...
On your routing front, have you sorted out Asia - last time I checked you had 5 segments I think? Post below if you wish.
Thanks for these clarifications. I guess I need to work through the implications of the flights in which there is not first class service. Thanks for pointing this out.
Also, nice of you to recall my previous itinerary drafts. What I have now done is dropped from AONE5 to AONE4, leaving Asia off the first trip but putting Asia and South America on the second trip. The details of the first trip are yet to be pinned down (and there is plenty of time to do that). For the record, the first AONE4 is now the following (which scans OK in the OneValidator as 52763 miles):
CAI-LHR-CPT-JNB-SYD-TSV,
CNS-DRW-PER-MEL,
SYD-JFK-YVR-DFW-SJU-DFW-SJO-DFW,
LAX-LHR-FCO-LHR-CAI
While it is only 19 segments, it has the full complement in Europe (4/4), in SWP(4/4) and in NA(6/6). Without paying extra it seems the only possibility would be to find flights from SA to another part of Africa and back, however I figure I may need the extra segment if I can't get the LHR-CPT flight when I want it and have to fly LHR-JNB-CPT instead.