Beirut
May 30, 2011 | 5:55 pm
#1
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Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: San Diego, CA
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Beirut
Any recommendations on flying from the US West coast to Beirut? I'm a UA 1k and would like to use my SWUs. Routing via FRA is awful with a 9 hour layover. Perhaps LHR or CDG? Maybe even IST?
May 30, 2011 | 6:48 pm
#2
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You put in your originating airport and destination and bring up various route options. BD flies to BEY from LHR. So you can fly LAX/SFO-LHR and onward.
You can also take TK from LAX via IST. But you can't use SWUs on Turkish.
May 31, 2011 | 4:16 pm
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You'd presumably want to fly UA as far as possible, so SFO or LAX to LHR, connecting to BD, is probably your best bet if you want to avoid FRA.