willyroo

Dunno why I thought you were in discount Y - must read more carefully...

Keep in mind what Dave Noble noted earlier - if you can find a US AA leg greater than 2700 miles (eg BOS-SFO), and it's a 2 class service (F and Y), you will score 150 SCs instead of 100.

Koru Flyer

My thoughts on LHR/MAN and ORD/TVC (no C anyway) was that these small flights would be more cost effective to just purchase a discount Y fare and save the 20 flights for the more important ones.

I have two questions,
1. Can I go via SFO/BOS/MIAorDFW to CUN for the F leg, as I have a USA sector or does the JFK/SYD while one flight number count as the trans USA sector?
2. Can I do SYD-CHC-MEL-PER-SYD-SIN as recommended (that is more credits) but I am crossing Australia twice?

I know alot of these are travel agent questions, but in DK they have limited experience of Oneworld products and the Danish mentality is 'but sir you are taking longer, I will book the shortest flights for you' and total failure to understand miles and status.

So I want to have as much done before I have that discussion.

Mark

Mwenenzi

You can across Aust twice, depending on where on the east coast you depart/arrive
You can only do 1 flight either BNE/CNS/SYD-PER or MEL/SYD-DRW.
For example SYD-PER-MEL is legal, provided you do no go to/from DRW-MEL/SYD
SYD-PER-BNE is not legal with or with out DRW

MEL-NRT at 5018 miles is good for miles /160 SC. ie. 60 extra SC if in C.
SYD-NRT is only 4797 miles / 100 SC in C.

So to get into Asia & into Europe
MEL-NRT-HKG-SIN-LHR (5018-1824-1608-6755)
MEL-NRT-HKG-DPS-HKG-LHR (5018-1824-2114-2114-5994)
or similair

The QF service DPS-SIN finishes at the end of July, to be replaced by an Australian Airlines flight


[This message has been edited by Mwenenzi (edited 04-23-2003).]

NM

The JFK-SYD is not seen as a US Trans-Continent flight so long as it is a single ticket coupon (ie no stop-over in LAX), so you can do that as well as SFO-BOS.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">2. Can I do SYD-CHC-MEL-PER-SYD-SIN as recommended (that is more credits) but I am crossing Australia twice?

Yes you can do this since you are not starting the trip in Australia. If starting in Australia you could not re-enter Australia after leaving for CHC. MEL-PER is not a restricted flight on OneWorld Explorer.

number_6

Download a Oneworld flight planner (I like the CX one, it includes almost all Oneworld flights, download from http://www.cathaypacific.com/intl/pl...le/0,,,00.html ) and construct your trip, then send the output of that to the travel agent. Works quite well and usually you get the routing you want.
You could indeed go SFO-BOS-MIA-CUN or even SFO-BOS-JFK-CUN on AA and get some more points, also makes a nice routing.
Should be a nice trip, now you just have to pick some interesting hotels along the way.

Koru Flyer

Thanks for your help, looks like I can get over the magical 1400 points.

Now all I have to do is convince the wife to be that this is sensible! (showing her the picture of the BA beds in C always helps ).

Mark

og

The research into figuring out when is the best time to break the good news (or bad news) about the itinerary usually takes longer than the research about the itinerary itself......

Koru Flyer

unfortunately that is all too true.........

As she has been on a plane every second day for the last two months, no is not the time

Mark