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Old Oct 18, 2009 | 9:49 pm
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Originally Posted by Embuexpat
Apologies if this is covered elsewhere but am trying to book a RTW in F from GRU (and thereafter CPT/DPS/SYD/AKL/SCL/GRU) and would appreciate any advice as to how to avoid
1) Eccentric routings (eg F GRU/CPT offered GRU/MAD/LHR/CPT with no F GRU/MAD, obviously
2) Mysterious warning messages ie 'you must be booked on this carrier to select this segment - please choose another flight'


Any tips greatly appreciated.
Your routing could look something like:

GRU-LHR-CPT-JNB-HKG-DPS-HKG-SYD-AKL-SCL-GRU

All long haul segments except AKL-SCL have F but HKG-SYD might disappear in the future.

This leaves you with plenty of segments for other flights if you want to.

I am not sure where those warning messages came from but it might have something to do with codeshares which you can only book in conjunction with a longhaul flight on this carrier.

By the way, welcome to the OW forum. This place is famous for inventing complicated routing, not avoiding it.
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