Anyone interested in OneWorld Mega-Do? ( like *A going on now ?)
 

I am in the midst of reading with great joy, the website of the Star Alliance Mega do which is occurring now.. I am mostly a One World flyer who is literally in the air 30-40% of waking hours.. Lots of experience with OWE tics as well as Circle Pacific tics? I have some ideas.. but thought that before time and effort is put in.. would ask fellow One Worlder's what the thought is?......

That would be something like 500,000 BIS miles per year? One has to ask... Why?

Sounds like fun RTW4. Whatcha got in mind?

I would like to contact friends at AA in DFW.. I also would like to see if we could arrange a similar scenario to the STAR mega-do. with careful planning and connections that our FT community has with the OW airlines.. We could possible plan a DO in Europe , Asia or SWP wherever people want.. but I am ready to do some work... its actually quite interesting and exciting....

Europe sounds cool ^

I would be interested too. Have been reading the mega-do with great interest so would be interested in a OW equivalent.
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Do most One Worlders think I should post this in the COMM BUZZ forum.. or is this satisfactory?

I'd keep it here as long as it still conceptual. Once youhave something concrete, I'd start a post in Community.

+1

Sounds interesting, especially an Asia event

I will start doing some working on the idea and hopefully start coming up with some concrete ideas shortly.. HERE'S to a great DO!...

As someone who has organised a few small dos, I know that any do involves a lot of work. The recent *A megado required an enormous amount of work (many hundreds of hours) and an enormous amount of goodwill by various sponsors (ie you'd need to have very good contacts).

If you are serious I'd suggest you talk with one of the organisers of the *A megado first so that expectations are realistic. That said, there may be others in FT who can help assist (the *A megado had 3 organisers plus a number of others who provided some assistance behind the scenes).

Thank you so much Kiwi Flyer.. I will do that very thing.. also I will PM you later this weekend with some specifics.. I thank you....

I would definitely be interested, work commitments permitting :)

Same.

Anyone thought South America? :)

On another thought, an OW do would NEED to have something to do with FRA, since it's the only airport all members fly to...

MX?

JFK gets all except MA, LHR all except LA.

Fantastic idea - would love it.

passing by down under?
 

I would put a vote in for SYD or AKL, being over this side of the world :D Although they are not brimming with OW partners...

SYD - QF CX JL BA LA
AKL - QF CX LA

Not too bad a representation , in any case , is there truly anywhere which can be said to be 'brimming' with OW partners ? ... it is only a little alliance after all ;) ( this site really needs a 'smiley' for 'duck and run for cover' )

That is the point of an alliance, right? Can't fly everywhere... :)

LAX would be nice too: AA, BA, CX, JL, LA, QF and new member MX (missing IB, RJ, AY, and MA)

Also FCO has pretty high representation:

I count AA, AY, BA, CX, IB, JL, MA, and RJ. 8/11

That would be a nice place for a DO!

I've travelled on flimsier pretexts - so count me as a definite maybe, RTW4.

Not fussed where it should be. Best avoid South Africa next June/July, though. ;)

i'm in. SFO or LAX would rock.

major partner touches?!
 

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Yah, intended to be taken out of context! Seriously, would it make sense to possibly have miles/routes with all major Oneworld partners? So obviously AA, BA, JAL, Quantas, but since regular FF probably don't want to recreate a normal travel week, getting touches on some of the more obscure partners (Royal Jordanian, Malev) would be attractive.

I'd vote for an operational tour of BA's worldwide fleet command, as well as a tour of Boeing in Seattle. :-:

Since this is purely conjecture at this point, no thought about routing, costs, or other details have taken place.

Fully agree we should go to school on the *A mega-do, and learn what they'd keep & change.

Work & such permitting, this could be a possibility for me too, but in a very vacation intensive yr it could be just wishful thinking. Always nice to have a plan on the books though.

Most certainly ! ^

I'd recommend considering Vancouver, where OW has its headquarters.

Taking a page from the Star people, maybe some kind of "VIP" tour of the Boeing widebody plant (in Everett, 20 min. north of Seattle and 3 hrs on the train south from YVR) might be possible - by then (God willing) they ought to be in full swing on 787 assembly and flight testing/delivery.

Only hitch in YVR would be the Olympics, but I imagine by the time this is organized the winter games would be long over.

Vancouver is served by AA, BA, CX and JL (and a big do would be a good venue to pitch QF re-entering the market.)

Have I missed timing discussions? If May/June, there could be Alaska cruise add-ons for any interested parties (ANC and adjacent Lake Hood are plane-spotters' paradises.)

I am waiting for a reply to a PM I sent KiwiFlyer based on his comments from last week... will keep everyone posted...

Apologies, FT has been inaccessible for me the past several days.

If you are wanting some kind of official OW involvement in the do (like the *A one) then it will likely require someone with good contacts with OW &/or 1+ main airlines within the alliance in order to get anything arranged.

Everything else is mere wish list and speculation.

If anyone does have such contacts and can help out then please post here, or contact the OP or me by PM/email.

Interested with a +1

Count me in as a maybe, pending work commitments! :D

definite maybe with a +1 here as well. If needed I can help coordinate hotels (although I know we all have our own chain preferences).

I'm interested (work permitting)... SEA/Vancouver sounds interesting , of course the Tour of Europe that Star got seems like a massive party... :p

The AA forum is organizing something on Jan 9th at JFK... still in preparation mode... but perhaps we could get AA on board/coordinate more things at that event... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/commu...-9-2010-a.html

not sure if a NYC-SEA would be really exciting... maybe NYC-YVR on CX? then train down to see Boeing, Cruise for anyone interested and if we are really crazy get over to Asia?? :D;)

Definitely. I'm in. I think this would be way cool, I was jealous over the *MegaDo

YVR - HKG ?

Definetely interested, work permitting, and based in old Europe.

+1. Possible availability to help with organization etc.

interest here...spousal consent permitting..:D.

Thanks for all the interest.. For those of you interested in planning... please shoot me a PM.. I will respond shortly after this.. Once again.. lets make this happen....