LA560 flies EZE-CCS (via SCL) on Monday and Friday - there's no single flight all the way back through CCS-EZE as far as I can tell though (then again it's not listed on the link to the ONE5 either )

Earlier in the year, in the printed OAG, LAN had a single flight number between EZE-CCS. I have not seen that flight in recent queries of the on-line timetable. Also, LAX-EZE is only bookable in coach and business as there is no first, SCL-EZE, even though the flight number stays the same. While possible, who would want to go to KHI, especially a 1x week flight?

NB the champaigne at the moment in the concorde room is Laurient-Perrier Grande Siecel. Also, someone who flies on xONEx just talked her way into the concorde room (A class, but going to AMS). Does not know of FT or cheap ex-CAI/BKK, etc fares. Horrors!!

Certainly agree with you on that (has anyone been brave enough to do a KHI turnaround yet? ). Lets hope that the HKG-MLE charters CX have been running prove successful enough to get scheduled flights starting - I think that would be a more a touch more enjoyable 1x a week flight destination!

So, is the EZE-CCS leg a problem or not?
And if KHI is once a week, can you do an immediate turn? Or, since it is arguably the most "difficult" stop, maybe we should dispense with it.

So who will improve the 80K routing?

EZE-CCS is fine, it's definitely bookable on LA560 - you just can't do CCS-EZE, that's all.

As for KHI, some other easier turnarounds would be SPK, DPS or CMB instead (DEL is a reasonable length too, but not sure how easy the turnaround is there, no doubt others could comment).

In regards to other improvements, replacing SCL-IPC with SCL-BOG would certainly lengthen the trip, not having been to BOG I can't say whether it's worth visiting (whereas IPC is certainly worth the trip if you're in that part of the world ).

While this discussion is certainly interesting I am sure that if this discussion continues for few more weeks here, we can anticipate few more restrictions on the ONE tickets just like 20 seg restrictions and ex-CAI fare raise etc.

Just my 2 cents..

A couple of provisos - as a QF member status credits are almost as important as total miles, as well considering the diminished mileage returns for BA (non-kangaroo route) and AA "L" class seats LONE4 itinerary

PER->SIN->HKG overnight < 24 hrs
->BKK stopover
(WT+ paid upgrade) -> LHR -> BUD stopover
->LHR->BWI stopover
->DFW->MCI stopover
->DFW
(stopover separate AA ticket L class ->IAH->DFW)
->OAK overnight < 24 hours
->DFW->LAX->BNE->MEL->ADL->PER

395 SC by my calc - truly enough to requalify for Silver and for Mrs WF to make silver - albeit her routing in the USA is slightly different.

Thoughts after the fact
BWI was our preferred stopover point on the east coast to recover from the time difference. Relatives close by and all. BUT BA's 76x service has no WT+ service and given the mileage and SC difference an alternative routing with WT+ probably should have been considered.

Before I added the mileage run OAK->DFW->LAX I had 7 coupons in the
USA - and I (correctly) figured that a round trip DFW-IAH would be about the
same cost as OW wanted for the additional coupon. What I didn't know or
check that at least one of the routes to be flown has a AA YUPSP fare available for not all that much more and the miles and SC would be better than the OAK->DFW run..... And would have left me wondering where to find a QF "B" class ticket for the OW 15000 mile bonus

As always YMMV (as well as SC)

Fred

I tried to search for this, but didn't find it. What is the routing for the xONE3 that goes 55,000 miles?

Definitely interested in AONE3 routing with 55.000 miles or higher. please post...

Here's one:
dxb-lhr-ist-lhr-hkg-khi-hkg-khi-hkg-jfk-lax-sjo-dfw-anc-dfw-sfo-lhr-dxb
55751 miles

Thanks

I have to use my AONE3 before it expires in January. Last January I flew:

BKK-HKG
HKF-JFK
JFK-BOS

This week, I have flown:

BOS-LGA
JFK-LAX (this was an involuntary reroute after a BOS-ORD flight was cancelled, so I fanagled a second transcon)
LAX-JFK (originally booked on QF, but had to change to AA when my plans changed)

I am planning the following:

BOS-DFW
DFW-LAX
LAX-YVR (separately purchased on AS codeshare)
YVR-LHR
LHR-CAI
CAI-LHR
LHR-FRA
FRA-MAD (the LA flight)
MAD-LHR (purchased extra segment)
LHR-KKG
HKF-SIN
SIN-BKK

I then have a second AONE3 that I'll use to get home. I have already flown:

BOS-LHR
LHR-SIN
SIN-BKK

I'd welcome comments on my first itin and suggestions for finishing the second.

Hope this is not too OT...

Family and work constraints have led us to nix our intended DONE4s ex-WAW or -IST planned to commence in February. (Herself also couldn't take the week-10 days required for SEA-IST-SEA to collect the tix anyway.) So rather than spend the serious $ needed to originate OWEs in the US (and assuming the IST or WAW prices aren't long for the world anyway) I started looking around for better deals ex-USA, and came across the Great Escapade product sponsored by SQ/VS/NZ, with ex-US prices here

So we're shortly to book LAX-NRT-AKL-SYD-SIN-CPT-JNB-LHR-SFO and say time out to OW for the summer. I dread the prospect of being drummed out of the Legion for this defection, but it's hard to argue with the numbers, not to mention SQ J and VS U/C for most of 30K mi BIS.

Is this wrong?

No, it is not wrong. Just not Oneworld! But those are very good prices. How did you get the routing under the max of 33,500 miles? The great cirlce calculations are 33,900 miles. And what if you need a USA domestic segment to get to a gateway for the SQ/NZ/VS flights?

You're right - sloppy copy. Not SIN-CPT-JNB-LHR but SIN-JNB-LHR, 32,500 and change.

How will I get from SEA to another west coast city? Same as always - not on AA.

The rules on the Escapade seem quite obscure - even the VS and SQ people are pretty clueless, NZ rather less so. AFAIK, you have to end up in the same country where you departed, but not necessarily the same city (same as with xOWExs and RWStars.) So if push came to shove on the mileage I suppose we could finish at, say, JFK, thereby saving miles upstream. Of course we'd need to get home, but it's not as far as coming home from Cairo or Istanbul.