I thank you all for your advice and insight but I realize that there is one issue that I failed to address as this would be the first time that I would be going to the East not on LY
I would prefer for obvious reasons not to fly with a carrier that flies over certain mid east countries in the remote chance of unscheduled landings
I am not sure if any of the OW carriers live up to this but maybe BA goes to the East over the Northern route and not Eastward ( I really have no idea) and this could definately be a deciding factor in choice of carrrier even if I have to add a long Westward flight to get to the East