Moomba

Thank you. You are correct that I have been infuenced by people on the thread, but in a good way. My routing:

MRU-LHR-MCT-AUH-MCT-LHR-LAX-MIA-DFW-ANC-DFW-ORD-JFK-SYD//ADL-AKL-ADL//CBR-PER-SYD-JNB-MRU

Has been through a few changes. I did want to go to HNL, but there is no first serice on his route and it is a long route. So that was dropped. I wanted to go to LAS and have been advised that it is cheaper to just purchase a ticket/drive from LAX and can therefore also do SFO. Again, I wanted to go to DTW and can from ORD by again purchasing a seperate flight. The other cities of MIA and JFK are still in my planned route. As for ANC, never been to Alaska so this a great opportunity to see it.

I have also never been to Australia so the only places I really wanted to go were MEL and SYD, the other places are an added bonus.

I am eurobased, so when I get gold and requalify for the year, I will do a challenge on AA for status on AA, or just leave it all on BA, still figuring that one out.