OWE 5 continents itinerary
 

Hi,

After doing alot of research, and searching through old forums, I've come up with an itinerary. Please let me know what you think, and if I've left off something that could give me some more miles. this is bit premature as it is planned for Nov and a AA Plat Challenge run.

MEL-PER-DRW-SYD-AKL-HKG-BOM-HKG-BOM-HKG-JNB-NBO-JNB-NBO-JNB-LHR-TLV-LHR-LPA-LHR-LAX-SJU-DFW-ANC-DFW-SJO-JFK-SYD.

What do you reckon?
cheers
goodo

MEL-PER-DRW-SYD-AKL IS 6627 miles
MEL-DRW-PER-BNE-AKL is 7259 miles

And you get miles early in the trip

LHR TLV is 2232 miles
LHR DXB is 3420 miles
Unless you actually want to go to a destination.

[This message has been edited by Mwenenzi (edited 02-25-2003).]

Not sure if you can travel the same sector multiple times (HKG-BOM). If i remember correctly it is against one of the rules.
You could do HKG-BOM-HKG-DPS-HKG or some other asian destination.

Same for JNB-NBO. Windhoek is also fairly long.

If you want to max miles in europe do LHR-IST-LHR-DXB-LHR.

From the rules
NOTE: NO MORE THAN 2 FREE SEGMENTS BETWEEN THE U.K. AND ALGERIA, ARMENIAAN, AZERBAIJ, BAHRAIN, BULGARIA, CYPRUS, EGYPT, EORGIA, GREECE, IRAN, ISRAEL, JORDAN, KUWAIT, LEBANON, MACEDONIA, MALTA, MOROCCO, OMAN, FUNCHAL, QATAR, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SAUDIA ARABIA, SYRIA, PORTUGAL, TUNISIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UKRAINE, YUGOSLAVIA

This does not seem to apply for Africa & Asia (but I could be wrong)

With AA will get full milege credits on all flights ?

[This message has been edited by Mwenenzi (edited 02-25-2003).]

Options if you can not do 2 x HKG - BOM
HKG BOM 2658 miles
HKG CMB 2517 (Sri Lanka
HKG DEL 2331
)HKG DPS 2136 (Bali)
HKG CTS 2106 (Japan)
HKG KHI 2956 (Pakistan, but politically a problem)

In Europe
LHR LPA 1821 miles
LHR IST 1564
LHR DXB 3420

LPA is a good choice, its warm, and has cold beer !!!

For Africa
LHR JNB 5620 miles
LHR CPT 5994
Do JNB CPT as a surface (ie not a OWE segment) Capetown is a much better city than Jo'burg. The train CPT to JNB is a resaonable trip, bit like a shorter trip across the Nullabor

[This message has been edited by Mwenenzi (edited 02-25-2003).]

[This message has been edited by Mwenenzi (edited 02-25-2003).]

Mwenenzi:

1) "WITHIN AUSTRALIA - ONLY O N E NONSTOP/SINGLE PLANE SERVICE IS PERMITTED BETWEEN THE FOLLOWING POINTS:
BNE/CNS/SYD-PER;
MEL/SYD-DRW"

I take this to mean that I wouldn't be able to do both MEL-DRW and PER-BNE.

2) There are AA or BA codeshares on SYD-AKL meaning 100% miles. Likewise with BNE-AKL and MEL-AKL.

3) TLV would be a stop.

Unterwegs, re: BOM & NBO: I thought that I couldn't stop 2 times in one city, but if just transiting it would be OK.

goodo

[This message has been edited by goodo (edited 02-25-2003).]

It means you can only do one sector between BNE/CNS/SYD-PER and only one sector between MEL/SYD-DRW

so MEL<DRW<PER<BNE is legal whereas MEL<DRW<SYD<BNE is not legal.

FOr a OWE there is no restriction on flying the same city pairs more than once (that rule applies to the Global Explorer only).

There is also no restriction on stopovers in the same city. The only stopover restriction of any sort is no more than 2 stopovers in the originating continent (but they can both be at the same place).

CMB and DPS are visa-free for Aussies I think. Bombay is not.

MEL-DRW-PER-SYD-AKL-HKG-jfk-sjo-dfw-anc-dfw-sju-lax-lhr-dxb-lhr-lpa-lhr-jnb-nbo-jnb-nbo-jnb-lhr-hkg-bom-hkg-bom-hkg-syd


[This message has been edited by rnprasad (edited 02-27-2003).]

Good milage at 91139

Relies on
South West Pacific to North America AKL-HKG-JFK without a stopover
Africa to Asia JNB-LHR-HKG without a stopover

Both these can be done a single direct flight, so interesting to see if the Oneworld desk will ticket these

Something like, South West Pacific to North America AKL,-HKG-YYZ without a stopover may work as there is not a AKL-YYZ direct flight

NBO immigration will ask you about your intentions.

BOM immigration could be fun, unless you plan to stay overnight.



[This message has been edited by Mwenenzi (edited 02-27-2003).]

rnprasad: PER-BNE-AKL would be a few hundred miles more.

goodo

No DFW-ANC flights in November. They only operate from late spring to early fall.

If you're planning on doing this in coach you should keep in mind that BA flights in M class will only earn 25% AAdvantage miles after 1 July. If so, lots of wasted miles in Africa, South America would be better as your 5th continent.

Meant to include a link to the new rules for AAdvantage miles on BA flights:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum71/HTML/014944.html

Thanks for all the updates. I had intended to stop in JNB, although it may not happen now, for reasons besides this BA/AA debacle.

Therefore, may turn it into a 4 continent, leaving out Africa.

I'll keep you posted.

goodo