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Eh? #4 & #5 refer to AMM-HKG. Post #14 refers to AMM-CMB (direct), thereby potentially saving you an Asia segment that you could use for more miles earlier in the trip.
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Originally Posted by christep
(Post 13636936)
Eh? #4 & #5 refer to AMM-HKG. Post #14 refers to AMM-CMB (direct), thereby potentially saving you an Asia segment that you could use for more miles earlier in the trip.
The AMM-CMB is TWF, my Euro-Asia is Sun/Mon. I'd have to drop my planned HEL stopover. |
Sorry should have paid more attention to the dates puts a small spanner in the works I guess. I would probably say the biggest stumbling block in maximizing status credits is using CDG as the entry point instead of sadly LHR, as BA has the best coverage for Europe/Middle East.
I thought of this however due to BA/AY using terminal three you would have to go T3 to T5 unfortunately so by avoiding staying the night in London. 9th DFW-CDG August 140 sc 12th CDG-HEL 60 SC 14th HEL-LHR-DXB 160 SC 15TH DXB-LHR-HKG 260 SC 16TH HKG-CMB 100 SC So I think this gets you 580 instead of the 500 you had I think and gets you to where you want to go and apart from the initial terminal transfer from T3 to T5 the rest would all be terminal 5 if you choose BA for the LHR-HKG. Hope this covers your dates. |
I was actually looking at DXB options last night when I noticed it was in the next zone for SCs from CDG/MAD/GVA.
The last time I had a terminal change connection at LHR was in September 2008, shortly after T5 opened. Connected from BA52 to IB3177 (T5-T3), and BA551 to QF32 (T5-T4) a week later. Has anything changed since then? If I’m going to fly LHR-HKG, I’m going to want to get QF30. Combined with the return positioning flights, that will get me my 4th ~ and confirm the Gold Retain or Platinum Earn for my Aug10-Jul11 year. I put this into the planner: CMB-SIN CX0710 17JUL SIN-NRT JL0710 17JUL NRT-HKG JL0731 25JUL HKG-JFK CX0830 27JUL --QFF SC Rollover-- JFK-DFW AA0855 02AUG DFW-MCO AA1434 05AUG MCO-DFW AA1589 08AUG DFW-SEA AA2033 08AUG SEA-JFK AA0268 09AUG JFK-CDG AA0044 09AUG CDG-HEL AY0872 12AUG HEL-LHR AY0831 14AUG LHR-DXB BA0107 14AUG DXB-LHR BA0106 15AUG LHR-HKG QF0030 15AUG HKG-CMB CX0711 16AUG 43,664 miles 440SC before rollover (earning gold), 1270SC after (+75 for planned return position flight) Leaves me 55 short of earning platinum, but I could get that with a CBR-MEL-AKL-MEL-CBR later in the year. Only thing is, this routing added quite a lot to the taxes... 764,900.00 + 111,351.00 = 876,251.00 LKR Surcharge 47,018.00 LKR Immigration and Naturalization Service Fee 805.00 LKR Multiple Surcharges 138.00 LKR Hong Kong Air Passenger Departure Tax 1,792.00 LKR U.S. International Transportation Tax - Departure 3,702.00 LKR Passenger Service Facilities Charge - Japan 2,621.00 LKR French Airport Solidarity Tax 1,575.00 LKR Airline Insurance Surcharge 1,288.00 LKR U.S. Customs Fee 633.00 LKR U.S. Animal and Plant Inspection Service Users Fee 575.00 LKR French Airport Tax 1,772.00 LKR Finland - Security Charge - Domestic and International 553.00 LKR Multiple Surcharges 31,360.00 LKR Finland - Passenger Fee - International 1,520.00 LKR Passenger Facility Charges 518.00 LKR Passenger Service Charge for France 1,595.00 LKR UK Passenger Service Charge 8,092.00 LKR Tax description unavailable (OISE) 643.00 LKR Aviation Civile Tax 648.00 LKR September 11th Security Fee 1,152.00 LKR Sri Lanka Embarkation Tax Colombo 1,500.00 LKR International Arrival Transportation Tax (USA) 1,851.00 LKR 111,351.00 LKR |
Got a price for the positioning flights. Total trip works out at ~ AU$10,710 (for 23 sectors), a saving of about $2,000 from the same trip as a DONE4 out of Australia.
Works out at about $5.80 per status credit. 55909 mi + cabin/status bonuses. I can save about $100 if I use SQ for the SIN-CMB-SIN sectors of the positioning, but then I’d lose two sectors of SC/miles. Think it’s worth it? After I add in accommodation, it would cost me about 23% of my savings. |
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