Europe to AU routing

[Lemon_Party]

Hi all - I'm fairly new to all this and wondering if people can help me out:

1. Does anyone know the MPM allowed from CDG to PER including the 25% extra AA allow?

2. Is CDG-HKG-NRT-SYD a valid AA route with CDG-NRT on CX and NRT-SYD on JAL?

3. Can I tack Perth on and stay within the MPM (Actually I can easily calculate this if someone has the answer to 1!)

I'm tossing up between an award in F on QF from Europe-SYD-PER thats a bit earlier than when I want (almost no availability) and the above which suits my travel dates.

The CX/JL I'll probably have to pay for the SYD-PER leg and its a more circuitous route and layovers, but I like the look of CX/JL 1st. The QF route will be through Heathrow, so either high departure taxes, or I have a positioning flight on BA (probs CDG) to start and pay some fuel taxes. QF will have less layovers and travel time, and I'd expect get me back to PER within MPM.

I've been looking at EY but can't find A380 availability so don't think its worth the 100k miles.

Thanks to those who've already helped me through other threads, and apologies if I took those OT slightly...

 

[Abdul_A350]

Hi all - I'm fairly new to all this and wondering if people can help me out:

1. Does anyone know the MPM allowed from CDG to PER including the 25% extra AA allow?

2. Is CDG-HKG-NRT-SYD a valid AA route with CDG-NRT on CX and NRT-SYD on JAL?

3. Can I tack Perth on and stay within the MPM (Actually I can easily calculate this if someone has the answer to 1!)

I'm tossing up between an award in F on QF from Europe-SYD-PER thats a bit earlier than when I want (almost no availability) and the above which suits my travel dates.

The CX/JL I'll probably have to pay for the SYD-PER leg and its a more circuitous route and layovers, but I like the look of CX/JL 1st. The QF route will be through Heathrow, so either high departure taxes, or I have a positioning flight on BA (probs CDG) to start and pay some fuel taxes. QF will have less layovers and travel time, and I'd expect get me back to PER within MPM.

I've been looking at EY but can't find A380 availability so don't think its worth the 100k miles.

Thanks to those who've already helped me through other threads, and apologies if I took those OT slightly...

Given that AA awards can be put on hold the very first thing I do when I am wondering about something is just call and try to book it.

 

[grussellt]

Have you considered CDG to NRT/HND on JL followed by JL onward to SYD (which may also have F, depending on season)? SYD-PER should be tagged on via QF. If you sign up for Awardnexus you will see JL availability.

 

[sioux]

Last year I wasn't able to book from PER to Europe via the east coast but that was with USDM as they said it was backtracking & they were very adamant about it as I tried numerous operators. Ended up booking PER-HKG-NRT-LHR-FCO - mixture of J & F for 3 people.

Hope this helps ...

 

[Abdul_A350]

Last year I wasn't able to book from PER to Europe via the east coast but that was with USDM as they said it was backtracking & they were very adamant about it as I tried numerous operators.

That is not a problem, the booking engine will happily give you PER-SYD-DXB-LHR and similar.

 

[Lemon_Party]

Have you considered CDG to NRT/HND on JL followed by JL onward to SYD (which may also have F, depending on season)? SYD-PER should be tagged on via QF. If you sign up for Awardnexus you will see JL availability.

I've been looking at this and have a booking on hold. Adding the SYD-PER leg pushed the award up to 97,500 miles, but I'm going to try someone else today and see if I can get it for 80k. I'm assuming I have exceeded MPM, but the agent I spoke with last night wasn't overly helpful. Its looking far easier/quicker to just travel back direct to PER in J on EY, but having never flown 1st I'd really like to tick it off the bucket list...