Many of you have stated that SFO-BOS at 2704 miles (according to the great circle mapper) is the longest route on the AA US network (excluding Hawaii and Alaska of course). Has any one found anything longer, or perhaps some more interesting routes?

LAX-SJU, 3386 mi

This thread may be helpful:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186580

Technically the longest route is MIA-LIH, at almost 5k miles. But not much use on a OWE as it is a dead end.

Unfortunately they only have J and Y cabin on that route so on a DONEx fare you would only get 100 status credits, whereas the F, Y cabin on SFO-BOS gets you a total of 150 status credits under the new table coming into effect on the 25th of May.

Shame that there are no other exotic routes, particularly with better aircraft than a 757 - F pitch is a whopping 40" on SFO-BOS.

QH

ORD-HNL is 4244 miles with First and Economy cabins earning 150SCs at current rates in F and 180SCs under the new scheme from may and is operated by a 763 .

Ahh, just re-read and saw that you were excluding hawaii. The 2704 SFO-BOS is the best one I know of , being just 3 miles into the 150 threshold

I think that QF hammer is to be DONE4 after the great mileage robbery is complete. Therefore, the 2700 mile break point will change. We need a new spreadsheet of the miles and the likely status points, especially the difference with F and J!

Can you believe the lengths we now have to go to!

In respect to your question about mileage and status points earned post May 25 for all those QF'ers out there (and looking at this forum, there are a lot of us), here is the table:

Start End N-B Y J,D,C,I F,A
0 600 10 20 40 60
601 1200 15 30 60 90
1201 2400 20 40 80 120
2401 3600 25 50 100 150
3601 4800 30 60 120 180
4801 5800 35 70 140 210
5801 7000 40 80 160 240
7001 8400 45 90 180 270
8401 9600 50 100 200 300
9601 15000 60 120 240 360

You can also refer to the QF site for the same info, but from now on, it looks like the following thesholds will be the most important on to look out for when doing a AONEx or DONEx - 1200, 2400 and 3600.

A great EU leg to get over the 3600 barrier would be the LHR-MCT run - an added bonus is some apparently good diving whilst there.

For the record, I think the best routing I can do and still visit the cities that I want to will be:

IST-LHR-SIN-HGK-BKK-SYD-MEL-PER-CNS-SYD-JFK/LGA-YYZ-DFW-YVR-DFW-BOS-SFO-LHR-MCT-LHR-IST

On a DONEx only two of the NA segments are in A (DFW-BOS and BOS-SFO) and to add insult to injury, all the segments are on non wide-bodied aircraft so F is not going to be that comfortable.

I'm not sure I understand the bolded statement. There are 2 class flights between LGA-YYZ, YYZ-DFW, DFW-YVR, and YVR-DFW. Your DONE books into A on these flights so shouldn't you get F tier points in QF as with the BA scheme?

Flights outside the US are two class, but are considered coach and business. An A or D RTW would book into D.

Doh! Thanks. I always remember/understand this for Mexico/Central America but seem to forget this for flights to or from Canada.