Route notes
Why this routing works
This six-week economy itinerary runs eastbound from London to Los Angeles, then continues across the Pacific to Auckland and Sydney before closing the loop through Hong Kong back to London. The sequence keeps the longest stays in Auckland and Sydney, with shorter bookends in Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
At seven nights in Los Angeles, 17 in Auckland, 13 in Sydney and four in Hong Kong, the trip spreads its time across four stops without backtracking. The routing uses consecutive flight sectors throughout, so there are no surface gaps or open-jaw transfers to manage between cities.
January departure timing places the itinerary into the Jan-Mar travel window, with the heaviest portion of the trip concentrated in Australasia before the shorter final leg through Hong Kong. On one multi-stop ticket, that structure keeps the intercontinental flights in a single continuous chain back to London.