OneWorld Vacation for 2004
Oct 8, 2003 | 12:24 pm
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OneWorld Vacation for 2004
I am planning a vacation for October 2004. It is my intent to use miles for the trip. Does anyone have any recommedations on routing/order, in order to maximize our time? The cities we are planning to visit include: Johannesburg South Africa, Sydney Austrailia, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia,Hong Kong and possibly Tokoyo. Also, if anyone has any hotel recommedations, your thoughts would be much appreciated. Thanks
Oct 8, 2003 | 2:07 pm
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Without concern for the airlines you fly on and not all in first class
DFW-NRT-HKG-KUL-HKG-SYD-JNB-LHR-DFW
Its about 33,000 miles and I doubt you will find a routing that is significantly less if at all. The only caveats are that you will be flying AA transpacific and if you are doing first class, the SYD-JNB is a two class aircraft. To rectify both situations, you would be able to do DFW-LAX-SYD-HKG-NRT-HKG-KUL-HKG-JNB-LHR-DFW which would be a slight over 37,000. Since the cutoff is at 35,000 miles, the second itinerary would cost more miles, but not significantly more, imo. Finally, combining the two of all first class and AA transpacific, you would get DFW-NRT-HKG-KUL-HKG-SYD-HKG-JNB-LHR-DFW which would also be about 37,000 flight miles. Hope that makes sense and hope it helps.
DFW-NRT-HKG-KUL-HKG-SYD-JNB-LHR-DFW
Its about 33,000 miles and I doubt you will find a routing that is significantly less if at all. The only caveats are that you will be flying AA transpacific and if you are doing first class, the SYD-JNB is a two class aircraft. To rectify both situations, you would be able to do DFW-LAX-SYD-HKG-NRT-HKG-KUL-HKG-JNB-LHR-DFW which would be a slight over 37,000. Since the cutoff is at 35,000 miles, the second itinerary would cost more miles, but not significantly more, imo. Finally, combining the two of all first class and AA transpacific, you would get DFW-NRT-HKG-KUL-HKG-SYD-HKG-JNB-LHR-DFW which would also be about 37,000 flight miles. Hope that makes sense and hope it helps.
Oct 8, 2003 | 6:25 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Darren:
Without concern for the airlines you fly on and not all in first class
DFW-NRT-HKG-KUL-HKG-SYD-JNB-LHR-DFW
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Without concern for the airlines you fly on and not all in first class
DFW-NRT-HKG-KUL-HKG-SYD-JNB-LHR-DFW
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Oct 8, 2003 | 7:13 pm
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Indeed. In fact, that's what I was initially going to put in but confused myself. I am getting old and my brain doesn't work as well as it did in my 20's. 
So DFW-NRT-HKG-SIN-SYD-JNB-LHR-DFW which is 31000 miles and still fits in the 25-35000 zone.
So DFW-NRT-HKG-SIN-SYD-JNB-LHR-DFW which is 31000 miles and still fits in the 25-35000 zone.
Oct 9, 2003 | 4:23 pm
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The other option is DFW-NRT-HKG-KUL-land-SIN-SYD-JNB-LHR-DFW
CX definitely flies to KUL - Kuala Lumpur - from HKG. I'm not sure about driving, but with Malaysian and Singapore Air offering special 'shuttle flights' see http://www.kiat.net/klia/airlines.html that would mean only one extra trip.
Cheers,
TravelTil
CX definitely flies to KUL - Kuala Lumpur - from HKG. I'm not sure about driving, but with Malaysian and Singapore Air offering special 'shuttle flights' see http://www.kiat.net/klia/airlines.html that would mean only one extra trip.
Cheers,
TravelTil