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Old Mar 13, 2010 | 2:00 pm
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pelehton
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Planning a DONE3

Hello all

I´m hoping to start my DONE3 in June from tlv. Couple of questions from the pros before I make the booking.

My routing would be:

tlv-xbud-mad-hel-xjfk-lax-aus-jfk-xdfw-hnl-nrt-del-bkk-hkg-sin-xlhr-tlv

If I use the online booking tool will it let me book the trip starting from tlv with the same price as if I would buy the ticket from Israel (6 200 usd + taxes)? I´m not living in Israel.

Would the ticketing airline be Malev in this case?

I know or at least hope this is a valid ticket as Mileage monkey and the oneworld booking system validates it?

As I´m planning to do three trips with the ticket:
June: tlv-xbud-mad-hel
September: hel-xjfk-lax-aus-jfk
May 2011: jfk-xdfw-hnl-nrt-del-bkk-hkg-sin-xlhr-tlv

As I can not book the right dates for the last part of the trip with the online tool I would need to use dummy dates for the last trip. Could I just inform the ticketing airline to change the dates or would I need to pay them to do so (I think not)? Would there be any problems with the date changes if I would do them in lets say December/January and my dates would be flexible?

Is there any difference on booking the hel-xjfk-lax compered to hel-lax (as there is no straight flight I would need to enter the route so to the online tool as it will not offer me hel-jfk-lax but a connection in Europe where I can not stop because of the 4 stop limit in Europe)? Meaning if I would miss my connection in jfk would I still be able to demand the flying airline to reroute me to a later flight etc. So is the DONE3 ticket looked as one ticket regardless of how you make the routing?

I would not be using the last segment from lhr to tlv as I would fly home from lhr. Would this get me in any kind of troubles?

Thanks for all the help in advance ^
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