I need to book a trip in August for work which will take me from Melbourne to London, Toronto and LA before returning to Melbourne.
I work for a NFP and normally we would book via our travel agent and would be given the lowest possible fare on any carrier, but I have some vouchers which I need to use up from Qantas and given I am donating them to work I have been given approval to book direct from Qantas.
I currently have PS with Qantas and would like to keep it. I normally between work and personal flying have been able to scrap in keeping my PS and enjoy the free seat selection. I also have a QP membership into next year which has me happy to fly what ever stupidly long route required as I can relax in the lounge.
My question is, is anyone a guru here and able to advise me what the best route to take from Melbourne, to London where I will spend a week (18 Aug - 24), then onto Toronto for another week (24-29th) and to LA for a week (29th - 3rd Sept) before returning to Melbourne.
Having a look currently the best status points route I found was MEL-SIN-DXB-LHR then LHR-YYZ then YYZ-LAX then LAX-BNE-MEL but I am by no means a guru at this and would love any suggestions on how to maximise my status points for this trip.
thanks in advance
I work for a NFP and normally we would book via our travel agent and would be given the lowest possible fare on any carrier, but I have some vouchers which I need to use up from Qantas and given I am donating them to work I have been given approval to book direct from Qantas.
I currently have PS with Qantas and would like to keep it. I normally between work and personal flying have been able to scrap in keeping my PS and enjoy the free seat selection. I also have a QP membership into next year which has me happy to fly what ever stupidly long route required as I can relax in the lounge.
My question is, is anyone a guru here and able to advise me what the best route to take from Melbourne, to London where I will spend a week (18 Aug - 24), then onto Toronto for another week (24-29th) and to LA for a week (29th - 3rd Sept) before returning to Melbourne.
Having a look currently the best status points route I found was MEL-SIN-DXB-LHR then LHR-YYZ then YYZ-LAX then LAX-BNE-MEL but I am by no means a guru at this and would love any suggestions on how to maximise my status points for this trip.
thanks in advance