Originally Posted by christep
Unfortunately, nobody has recently reported being able to get a second entry into Asia between SWP and NA ticketed. I really don't think that will work. You would need to do SWP before Asia.
Very true, and this is a pretty ironclad rule now (unfortunately). The routing is easily fixed by flying AKL-LAX on QF instead of AKL-HKG-LAX on CX (saves a segment but loses a lot of mileage). However AKL-LAX is much more pleasant in D or L than AKL-HKG-LAX (I would only do that routing in A, which is no longer available ex-AKL).