Hi all,
Thank you for the responses. Pleased to say I did a fair bit more reading and finally rang to book the award flight which has now been done. End result is this: ADE-LA (via Bris), LA-NY, NY-PARIS (via LON), PARIS-LON, LON-HK (via Beijing I think), HK-ADE (via MEL). 280,000 points, taxes...