Thanks for all of your replies.

To confirm, I am from Melbourne, Australia, and am researching possible fares for my parents.

I am looking at both DONE and AONE fares.

After doing some initial calculations, it appears that Mauritius is a good option as a starting point. The OW website has starting prices at about 6,369/7437. SA prices are a bit cheaper again, but the problem is that my mum doesn't like flying economy for long distances (does anyone?? but she really hates it) so the few hundred dollars cheaper in SA might not be worth the extra hours in economy.

Air Mauritius flies from PER two times a week, so i was thinking that they could get over to PER and then take the Air Mauritius flight one-way. Then instead of returning back to Mauritius, just finish back home in MEL and let the final segment expire. It is unlikely that segment limit will be too much of a problem because they don't want to explore Africa.

The one-way flight from PER to Mauritius is only about $1.6k so the total fare would be about 7990/9056.

I would appreciate your thoughts on the above plans.

Also, does anyone have experience booking and collecting a RTW from Mauritius. What is the actual process one would go through? I assume it would be through BA but is there any way to organise it through Qantas?

Thanks again for all your help.


Fraser