Originally Posted by
fraserm
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.
Fraser
I take it you're using Oz dollars, although I know there's only about 2% difference at the moment.
You won't be able to leave only the final segment to expire, as there's no direct flight MEL-JNB. Neither do you have to ticket as far as MRU as you only have to end "somewhere in the African continent". You'll have to set the itinerary so that the final 2 segments are MEL-SYD-JNB, and then let these lapse.
There is a bit of a restriction in that you can't actually do a MRU- (or SA-) based RTW to include Oz within a xONE4 unless you go westbound and miss out any Asian cities. Otherwise it's an xONE5.
You can play with itinerary planning using Mileage Monkey &
this itinerary should get you started. You can add up to 10 more segments, so long as you don't exceed 4 per continent (6 in N.America). Intercontinental flights don't count for this. Even the middle segments can be changed, but you can't avoid the first, or the last 2. There are other restrictions, but the OneWorld rules explain these, and MileageMonkey (MM) does a fantastic job highlighting them. Nevertheless, MM doesn't catch them all, so feel free to post your prospective itinerary here.
Have fun with it.