I have tickets!

Well sort of, e-tickets actually.

I had to drop Tokyo from this trip - it turned out to be just too expensive. I've substituted a side trip in Europe to Berlin instead. I will get one long haul and (at least) one short haul flight on each of BA, Qantas and Finnair, plus a transcontinental on American so it should be interesting to compare.

Luckily this came in at only $20 more than the original, which is a relief.

If anyone's interested, the itinerary is

PER-SIN-LHR-TXL* (QF/BA/BA)
TXL-LHR (BA)
lots of train trips
LHR-HEL-JFK** (AY***) - SFO (AA)
SFO-SYD-PER (QF)

All very exciting. Rather hard to concentrate on serious work at the moment as a result :)

* Berlin, Tegel airport for non aviation geeks
** New York, JFK airport for ditto
*** Don't ask me why, but this is the code for Finnair