Routing check please, DONE4.
Jun 25, 2012, 8:00 am
#2
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It's a valid routingIt uses 15 of the allowed 16 segments (as you no doubt know already the LHR-LCY and MEL-SYD surface segments both count towards the total)
So you have one left to play with - ideas:
So you have one left to play with - ideas:
- start from somewhere else in South Africa (e.g. CPT-JNB...)
- squeeze in one more Nth American segment (you are allowed up to six flights in that continent)
- have a European side-trip - fly LHR-XXX and then XXX-LCY; airline route mapper shows a number of ports serviced from both LHR and LCY for example NCE and ARN - you could even transit through LCY and thus avoid the UK APD tax on the trans-atlantic flight(e.g. ARN-xLCY-JFK)
Jun 25, 2012, 5:20 pm
#3
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MM say invalid: Rule violated!!!! [MEL-SYD] Max 4 segment(s): Southwest Pacific. As above "MEL-SYD surface segments both count towards the total"
http://www.slfft.org/mm/award.htm?ow...y#.T-jx_pERI0M
http://www.slfft.org/mm/award.htm?ow...y#.T-jx_pERI0M
Jun 25, 2012, 5:30 pm
#4
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MM say invalid: Rule violated!!!! [MEL-SYD] Max 4 segment(s): Southwest Pacific. As above "MEL-SYD surface segments both count towards the total"
http://www.slfft.org/mm/award.htm?ow...y#.T-jx_pERI0M
http://www.slfft.org/mm/award.htm?ow...y#.T-jx_pERI0M
From the rules (emphasis in original):
A minimum of 3 and maximum of 16 segments, including surface segments between any 2 airports, are permitted for the entire journey. Free flight segments within each continent are limited as follows:
Jun 25, 2012, 7:00 pm
#5
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MM now states valid. http://www.slfft.org/mm/award.htm?ow...y#.T-kJfZERI0M
LAS-LAX-SFO are short flights, so not getting much benefit from D (that's not the FT way !)
Jun 27, 2012, 7:59 am
#8
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Pretty much all stops.
Does this routing suffice?
JNB-LHR-SFO-LAX(transit)-LAS-ORD-JFK-LAX(transit)-MEL-AKL-MEL-CNS-MEL-(ground transport)/SYD-JNB.
If I take the routing where I fly into SFO I will also make AA EXP, but if I fly into New York I will take BA001/003 which seems really cool. So my options are fly out of LCY or make AA Exp.
Which one should I take?
Does this routing suffice?
JNB-LHR-SFO-LAX(transit)-LAS-ORD-JFK-LAX(transit)-MEL-AKL-MEL-CNS-MEL-(ground transport)/SYD-JNB.
If I take the routing where I fly into SFO I will also make AA EXP, but if I fly into New York I will take BA001/003 which seems really cool. So my options are fly out of LCY or make AA Exp.
Which one should I take?
Jun 27, 2012, 10:23 am
#9
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Does this routing suffice?
JNB-LHR-SFO-LAX(transit)-LAS-ORD-JFK-LAX(transit)-MEL-AKL-MEL-CNS-MEL-(ground transport)/SYD-JNB.
If I take the routing where I fly into SFO I will also make AA EXP, but if I fly into New York I will take BA001/003 which seems really cool. So my options are fly out of LCY or make AA Exp.
Which one should I take?
JNB-LHR-SFO-LAX(transit)-LAS-ORD-JFK-LAX(transit)-MEL-AKL-MEL-CNS-MEL-(ground transport)/SYD-JNB.
If I take the routing where I fly into SFO I will also make AA EXP, but if I fly into New York I will take BA001/003 which seems really cool. So my options are fly out of LCY or make AA Exp.
Which one should I take?
However
JNB-LHR-xBCN-xLCY-JFK-SFO-LAX-LAS-ORD-LAX-MEL-AKL-MEL-CNS-MEL/SYD-JNB
adds another few hundred miles to that, keeps the LCY-JFK flight, and saves a bunch of money on UK APD since BCN-xLCY-JFK would involve a transit at London. You'd pay the low rate APD on the LHR-BCN flight, much less than the longhaul APD you'd pay on LCY-JFK. You could easily take a morning LHR-BCN flight, turn around and be back at LCY in plenty of time to make BA3, the later LCY-JFK departure, so you wouldn't even lose a day. I'm sure the same thing could work with other shorthaul destinations served by both LHR and LCY, such as AMS or FRA.
