Originally Posted by
nickbaum
Hi Jerry, thanks for the feedback. The lack of flights out of EBB is a pain indeed!
Here is the itinerary I've come up with using the OW planner:
LON-EBB(land)JNB-WDH(land)VFA-CPT-SYD-CNS-SYD-BUE(land)SCL-LIM-BUE-LON
16 segments, 77+ hrs of flight
Two questions:
* The availability for SYD-BUE seems really limited, we have to fly 5 days later than planned. Same for SYD->SCL, and yet that's supposedly a regular flight. I guess they have very few RTW class seats?
* I'd love to save a couple more segments for travel in South America. Which segments seem like the best candidates to replace with local low-cost carriers? Alternatively, is it still possible to purchase extra segments?
Cheers,
-Nick
To revise your itinerary to show segments, it looks like this:
LHR-EBB//JNB-WDH//VFA-
JNB-CPT-
JNB-SYD-CNS-SYD-EZE//SCL-LIM-EZE-LHR
Looks to me like 15 segments counting surface ones. You could use one additional segment overall, in either the SW Pacific, S. America or Europe, or you could purchase an additional segment in Africa (4 presently used). Alternatively, you could purchase some S. America flights outside the RTW ticket by using Oneworld's Visit South America product (details on the OW web site) with which tickets are fairly inexpensive.
Assuming you're traveling in economy class ("L") then yes, at times of the year getting "L" seats across the South Pacific can be troublesome. Remember you can book SYD/AKL-SCL using either Qantas or Lan flight codes, so be sure to try that approach when looking for open seats. That might require revising your S. America itinerary, but not greatly.