Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! No rest here in Korea, back to work today- oh how I miss Boxing Day- had a great Chrsitmas lunch at Cornerstone in the Park Hyatt in Seoul, which was excellent as it always is. My new top choice hotel restaurant in Seoul BTW. Up in the morning on KE, back in evening on OZ, both excellent.

Thanks for all of your help! I agree. The A fare is not as good value.

I think this will be our DONE4 routing, with some added tickets of our own:

(NON-DONE tickets bold)

icn-hkg//hkg-bkk-cmb -//CMB-HKG-LHR-MCT-LHR-IST-LHR-YVR-DFW-ANC-DFW-YUL-LAX/(lax-?lax)/ -JFK-SYD//(syd-bne-mel-syd)-PER-ADL( adl-mel-adl)-SYD-BOM-HKG-//(hkg-lhr)//CMB // cmb-bkk-hkg //-hkg-mel

The ICN-HKG-MEL sectors are from a oneway ticket leaving Korea- we are going to be relocating back to Australia after 6 years here.

It seems cheaper to get seperate tickets HKG-BKK-CMB, than just HKG-CMB, though that may change as we get closer to the booking date.

We will be leaving ICN on July 3, and have to be in SYD by August 4 to collect our dog from Quarratine, so all of the pre-SYD sectors have to be finished by then. The nested OZ tickets are to visit family and friends.

We want to head down to SFO from LAX, so will just buy a cheap return on AA.com, so as to not use a sector.

The onworld.com validator ok'd this routing, and as a bonus, the DONE sectors will earn 142939 AAPLAT miles, as far as I can calculate. The mileage is 63349miles, so at 1.5Qpoints per mile, this trip would earn us both EXPLAT status right? (With the extra ICN-HKG-MEL tickets on CX, J).

BTW, I had to get a new username for the time being, my computer won't let me login wil johnkennett. I'll try over the next few days an see if I can fix it.