Hi all... thanks to this board, I'm part way through an AONE6 booked and paid for in MRU. Great advice thanks! I keep having to change the dates as I have had to come out of the itinerary to come back to europe twice now for work reasons..

this is the original itinerary

MRU-JNB-LHR-MIA-EZE- (all flown ^)

this is what remains as currently booked

EZE-SCL-GRU-JFK-DFW-MEX-DFW-YVR-DFW-LAX-SYD-AKL-HKG-BOM-LHR-NBO

I'm not sure I'm making best use of 'genuine' F class (in terms of maximum mies, TPs and of course comfort!) and my needs have changed a bit in that I only want to visit DFW once, and I would like to include NRT if possible.

The order of destinations is not important.

Do any of you experts have any advice for me? Your creativity and lateral thinking would be MUCH appreciated!

A reply on the BA forum to another question alerted me to the possibility of a better routing for this ticket...

I have a paper ticket, but I guess I could pay a re-route charge at LHR which I pass through frequently - which would be a one-off even if I changed several sectors?

THANKS!
HL

Yes.

Part of this depends on the fact if JAL is allowed on your ticket or not. (Was your ticket issues before or after JAL joined oneworld?)

An alternative routing (with JAL) could be:

EZE-SCL-GRU-JFK-YVR-MEX-DFW-LAX-SYD-AKL-SYD-HKG-BOM-HKG-NRT-LHR-NBO

The YVR-MEX flight is only twice a week though, but there are lots of options to save segments, at the cost of real first class. (i.e. SYD-BOM instead of SYD-HKG-BOM, or AKL-HKG instead of AKL-SYD-HKG)

hmmm - thanks! That is a nice route idea.

I booked back in July 07 and the first sector was 1 november 07

Is that JAL-applicable?

Also - is it allowed to go all the way over to BOM and then back to NRT?

I would definitely go for this if legal! ^

JAL joined in April 2007. So your ticket issued in July should be OK to use JAL. Usually on paper tickets the list of valid airlines is listed individually, such as AA/BA/CX...

.... by the way, I ask the question about AONE6 rules and legality because I tried the itinerary I have in front of me as a paper ticket on the OW website on the 'fully validated against rules' RTW planning utility and it came up as illegal on at least three technicalities!

No idea if the lovely agents at MRU bypassed something and just ticketed it anyway, but I'm now not sure whether to trust the online planner

- should I just take nielsdc's suggestion to the ticket desk when I next pass through LHR or LGW and get them to work on it?

My dates are fairly flexible.

Best!
HL

great. Thanks for that shoudl be fine for JAL then. ticket just says VALID ONEWORLD CARRIERS ONLY ^

The official planning utility has loads of bugs, and cannot be trusted.

Try the excellent milage monkey tool instead: http://slfft.allhyper.com/0.95/award.htm

Going from BOM to NRT is no problem, as they are in the same region. Backtracking within the same region is allowed.

HKG-BOM is only regional business class, and the flight currently stops in BKK. There will be direct flights as well in the future though, with better timings.

You could also get more miles by going to asia first, and then australia/new zealand. (i.e. EZE-SCL-GRU-JFK-YVR-MEX-DFW-LAX-HKG-BOM-HKG-NRT-HKG-AKL-SYD-LHR-NBO). But HKG-AKL has no first class.

Wow! Thanks ^ mileagemonkey is great! did a full validation once I worked out how to use it (!)

I will work out dates and then take your new itinerary back to BA to get it sorted out!

HL