Gardyloo: Thanks for the tip on starting in Jordan. It looks like it will be a significant savings. I can catch a flight to/from Amman on Turkish and still come out ahead on price. Actually, the price to fly RTW in first from Jordan is the same as my original RTW in Business from Europe, but too few of my flights appear to have an actual separate first cabin for the long hauls, or at least one significantly better than the Bus. cabins. I went ahead and bumped back to Hong Kong after MNL to add the last segment. I can't skip DFW; I'm flying to AZ to visit some friends (outside of this RTW trip, although probably on AA).

Kiwi: I noticed that on the SCL-PUQ flights it is in economy, but for the relatively short flights, so be it. Hopefully I still get the miles as booked in business. For the intra-Asia flights, what is the business class product like? Is it similar to intra-European business class?