Yes! Finally, I just emailed my final DONE4 itinerary to the CX office in CMB, probably much to the relief of the agent there I have been dealing with

With the help of many people here at FT, and many helpful ideas from my fiancee, this is the routing we finally worked out:

04JUL CMB-HKG CX700 TRANSIT HKG
05JUL HKG-JFK CX830
08JUL JFK-SFO AA179
10JUL SFOxDFW-DCA AA530/AA1544
11JUL DCAxDFW-YUL AA2057/AA802
12JUL YULxLHR-IST BA94/BA676(13JUL)
20JUL ISTxLHR-DXB BA677/BA109
22JUL DXB-LHR BA106
26JUL LHRxHKG-MEL CX250/CX105
12AUG MEL-BME QF1050
13AUG BME-PER QF1073
OPEN PER-MEL
OPEN SYD-BOM
OPEN DEL-HKG
OPEN HKG-CMB

It is a lot of travelling in only a short time until we reach Australia, but we have to drive to SYD, to get our dog from the Quarrantine Center there, on August 4.

Visiting family in PER, so we don't know how long we want to stay there yet.

Our wedding is in November, so the SYD-BOM etc leg will be for our honeymoon, but we haven't picked a departure date for that yet. Return CMB-MEL will be with CX.

Including the flights ICNxHKG-CMB and CMBxHKG-MEL we will make EXPlat with AA, and over 155000miles. I could have gained alot more miles with an ANC or SJU flight, but my fiancee wasn't too keen on the idea of zipping up there and back on AA first class (in a 757!) The quick DXB trip will be for a visit to the Gold Market and Al Jumarah (sp?) Hotel.

Some of the stops are very short, but it is a Global Tasting Menu- we will see which cities we would like to revisit for a longer time in 2008. Any tips on not to miss restaurants in any of the cities listed (except HKG, and OZ- we know them well enough ) will be received with much appreciation