Off to Colombo and Around the World

When we visited the Maldives last year, we returned on the last of our ex-CMB First Class tickets... an amazing now gone $4,000 round trip First from CMB to anywhere in the US with stopovers and free changes. On our outbound, we flew CMB-KUL-LHR-LAX-DEN on SriLankan, Malaysia and British Airways. But when Mrs. SFO told me that "no, I am not going to fly home from Paris via Sri Lanka" I knew that the gig was up.

But the deal was too good for me to cancel my return and pass up a great mileage run opportunity. So I decided to fly the return to insure my Executive Platinum re-qualification for this year. I planned my itinerary to fly the new American 77W and the new Qatar A380. After debating a variety of CMB-DEN options including Air India, I decided on a discounted Male-HKG-LAX Business class ticket and upgraded HKG-LAX with AsiaMiles. Hope you enjoy the next 72 hours of planes, lounges, food and drink.

• Admirals Club Denver

• American First Class Denver-Dallas

• Admirals Club DFW

• American First Class 77W Dallas-London

• Qatar First Class Lounge LHR

• Qatar First Class London-Doha

• New DOH Terminal

• Qatar First Class Lounge DOH

• Qatar Business Class Doha-Colombo

• Lounge CMB

• Galle and Colombo, Sri Lanka

• SriLankan Lounge CMB

• SriLankan Business Class Colombo-Male

* Leeli Lounge MLE

Original Itinerary...

• Cathay Pacific Business Class Male-Hong Kong

• The Wing First Class Lounge HKG

• Qantas First Class Lounge HKG

• Cathay Pacific First Class Hong Kong-Los Angeles

* American Flagship First Class Lounge LAX

• American LAX-Denver

Actual Itinerary caused by IRROPS...

• SriLankan Business Class Malé-Colombo

• SriLankan Business Class Colombo-Singapore

• Singapore Airlines The Private Room at SIN

• Singapore Airlines First Class SQ2 SIN-HKG

• Lounge Hopping in HKG

• Singapore Airlines First Class SQ2 HKG-SFO

• Delta Airlines Economy Comfort SFO-MSP

• Delta Airlines Economy Comfort MSP-DEN

Another beautiful Denver morning as I headed out to DIA. With lots of time as my flight showed an hour delay, I decided to save some money and get some exercise by using the Long Term parking lot.

My itinerary was too much for OLCI so I had to stop at the American counter.

Big lines at North Security but there was no one in the PreCheck lane and I was thru in a couple of minutes.

By the time I got to the Admirals Club, my flight was now showing a two hour delay. Always wonderful AAngel Laurie quickly rebooked my on the next DFW flight, bagging the last F seat.