AONEX ex-AKL / How to maximise F sectors?
Jul 30, 2009 | 4:33 am
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Note that HKG-SIN-NRT-BKK-SIN is 1700 more base miles than the routing you chose with all still possible in F except BKK-SIN (which occasionally gets a 3-class plane but apparently only sold as 2-class these days).
A longer all-F run round Asia would be to go to CGK instead of BKK: HKG-CGK-HKG-NRT-SIN
A longer all-F run round Asia would be to go to CGK instead of BKK: HKG-CGK-HKG-NRT-SIN
Jul 30, 2009 | 4:36 am
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Another good suggestion , thanks, but I assume LAX-MIA / MIA-JFK is 2 class 757/ 767? So the compromise would be to lose the DFW-ORD international F?
Jul 30, 2009 | 5:22 am
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Trying to fly F on CX in Asia at the moment is basically a lottery, which annoys me no end when I've paid my own money for an F seat.
Last edited by christep; Jul 30, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Jul 30, 2009 | 5:41 am
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Have you considered Delhi
JAL fly to Delhi I think three days a week and offer first class also it is just over 3600 miles so just like Jakarta would earn you 180 status credits in first so if it interested you the following could work
jfk-hkg-nrt-del-nrt-sin-syd
so for Asia you would earn 630 status credits
jfk-hkg-nrt-del-nrt-sin-syd
so for Asia you would earn 630 status credits
Jul 30, 2009 | 5:06 pm
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Obviously you need to compromise between maximising SCs and going to places you actually want to go to. Had the same issue this year when I got 2100 SCs out of a DONE4 in just under two weeks.
Jul 31, 2009 | 12:15 pm
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Aug 1, 2009 | 1:03 am
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