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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 9:28 pm
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Originally Posted by kiwiandrew
without having any idea of what your expected travel patterns are it is hard to say whose network will suit you best as each alliance has different geographical strengths and weakspots .

If you do a lot of RTWs then OW has a huge difference in that their RTW is not mileage based , this means that you can construct some incredible itineraries to max out the miles earned for an RTW .
You can get some idea of the different global reach of the alliances here.

Now that RTWs are limited to 16 segments, there is not so much of an advantage to Oneworld's xONEx RTW. Yes can fly more than *A RTW but the difference is now much smaller and may be negated by more back-tracking to get to where you want to go.
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