Originally Posted by
rwhite
Hi everyone,
The wife and I have to be in SYD at the end of September for a few days and were thinking of taking the long way home (LAX) by doing an AONE4.
We will be seperating the trip into two parts. The first part is our trip to Australia and back and is pretty set in terms of destinations (due to time constraints), the second just using the 6 North American segments add some miles to my account.
Just wanted to see what the pros thought of my routing.
Part 1) LAX-SYD-JNB-CPT-LHR-SFO (and return to LAX via cheap tix on VX, AS, AA, etc.)
Part 2) SFo-DFW-SAN-ORD-MIA-JFK-LAX... adding 9100 miles.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks!
If you start in LAX & have a "stopover" in SFO at the end of part 1, you'll only be able to do one stopover (break > 24 hours) in the 6 segments in part 2. This is 'coz the rules say no more than 2 stopovers in the originating continent.
No big deal if it's purely a mileage run, but you might be pretty fed up with aircraft and airports by the end of Part 2!
Further thoughts: Assuming you're in AA, why not start in SFO? There's a QF codeshare to SYD & then you can pass through LAX as much as you like, finishing in LAX if you wish. That way you can fly AA from LHR to LAX, which earns AA miles. BA from LHR to SFO earns no miles for AA members, IIRC.