Good day,

I am looking at a Circle Pacific fare in October - November that would go

CX 879: SFO - HKG <stop> QF 30: HKG - MEL (stop and overland to ADL ) QF: ADL - BNE <stop> QF 175 BNE - LAX and AA LAX - SFO for 20,023 mi (30,040 AA EQP) according to Great Circle Mapper, well with the GC rules, as would be two apparent stopovers in Oz, and one stop in Hong Kong.

We'd spend 4 - 5 days in Hong Kong, 2 -3 days in Melbourne, take the refurbished Overland (rail) to Adelaide to drink some Coopers, er, stay with our good mates in nearby Seaford, fly to Brissie and overnight for our next step / totally different trip-within-a-trip.

On a separate PNR etc. we'd fly BNE-POM <RON> POM - GUR for our purpose, superb PNG diving for a couple of weeks (with our ADL mates) and back to BNE, for a 2 - 3 day drying out period (well, maybe take on some Moreton Bay Bugs and some beer to help purge residual nitrogen from the system,) and return via QF 175 to LAX and AA for the very short hop to SFO.

Probably a simple issue for you GC / GE boffins / fundis / experts, but I want to check with you before I call AA and make a fool of myself... and also ask about any possible problems, e.g. BNE-LAX being a 747-438 with older, non-flat seats or whatever.

Any observations, tips and comments are welcome. TIA!