Circle Pacific (22,000 or 26,000)

[file51]

I am in the stages of planning a trip where I think the Circle Pacific fare will work very well, and am looking at the best place to stage this from (thanks to the many contributers on FF.com.au that have shown this in the past).

Obviously the AUS & USA costs are the highest, however starting from JPN or NZ look like some good savings and are easy enough for repositioning. I also notice that starting in Indonesia is a massive savings (one of the best I can find from countries that I would be willing to start from), US$3,816 for 22,000 miles, US$4,656 for 26,000 miles

The 4 main places we want to visit are Los Angeles, Orlando, Tokyo & Hong Kong, also using as many of the 16 segments as possible as a SC run as well.

Anyways, lots of planning to do and mileages to work out... any tips or suggestions greatly appreciated.

 

[serfty]

Use the Great Circle Mapper to calculate approximate distances.

To use Indonesia, Jakarta and Denpasar are your only real options.

To fit the whole within 22K miles is very difficult. Maybe get yourself to LAX then book a separate fare to MCO.

e.g. cgk-hkg-nrt-lax-mco-lax-syd-cgk is 24,660 miles

 

[file51]

Thanks serfty, I was starting to give serious consideration to ditching the HKG leg altogether and go with something like this cgk-nrt-dfw-lax-syd-cgk

Adding a seperate fare from DFW to MCO, however the above still maxes out to 22198m.

The big problem is there really isnt any major hub airports in the states west of DFW excluding the coast cities and Vegas of course, and Vegas is far from a major hub (unless you are flying Southwest of course)

 

[Chucksta]

If you are starting from CGK, I would suggest using the CX office to book the DCIR fare. QF office in Jakarta is hopeless.

For CX to book, your first sector must be on CX - (CGK-HKG).

CGK-NRT would be on JAL and I heard JAL have one of the highest fuel fines.

Chucksta

 

[serfty]

... CGK-NRT would be on JAL and I heard JAL have one of the highest fuel fines. ...

If you can find a way to book this using AA, they do not charge fuel fines for non AA flights.

 

[DTM1]

May be better to book through AA ex-MNL, and then fly MNL - HKG on CX and move from there. Will probably not fit within a DCIR22 - you'll probably need a DCIR26.

The other alternative, if you are happy to position to CGK or MNL, is to book a DONE3 - a bit more, but a lot more travel options.