Hi all,

Mr Falconea and I are planning a DONE4 starting October 2007.

Desired stops are HKG, Germany, FRA, CAI, JFK and IAD. We will be using a Eurail pass in Europe so will just use the Channel Tunnel trains. Before the new open jaw rules we were planning to fly a couple of legs within Europe, such as OSL-HEL-BUD, but we'll either train them or do LCC flights instead.

Naturally we want to earn Qantas Platinum status and as many miles as we can reasonably get. We also want to visit nice lounges and enjoy the flights.

This is what I've put together so far:

MEL-HKG-NRT-SIN-NRT-HKG-LON-KEF-LON-CAI-LHR-SFO-JFK-SJU-WAS-SJU-JFK-SYD-BNE-MEL

I calculate we'll reach Plat on the second trip to SJU and will receive in total 92,823 miles, including all the class of service and status bonuses, and assuming all the internal US flights are in A.

Any suggestions for improving this, or issues such as lack of D onboard?

And should we consider a AONE4 instead? I'm tempted.

It costs us 3,400 miles to fly to Europe from HKG instead of SIN, but I'd rather spend time in HKG in transit than in SIN.

Oh, and Mr Falconea insists on stopping at least overnight everywhere, to see the place at least briefly.

Can we do better in the US? Should we plan it differently? Can we achieve a similar result white avoiding LHR?

Thanks all for any comments!

Audrey