Hi Skipaway
Thank you for your advise I should have been a bit more clearer with my RTW as it should be miles aswell as destinations , and knowing how precise people are in the forums that was a mistake on my part which I apologise , ideally I want to visit Australia , India , Asia , and the America,s but starting in South Africa as this seems to be the cheapest place to start a Done4 , 5, There is just so much info its difficult to get my head round it . I know that I have to have 1 flight number to complete a segment so I cannot do Per-akl as it would be two segments unless they have changed the rules , also I am not sure about going back to England from S A as I would then have to fly atlantic first? which I do not want to do .
thanks ELO
LOL, ELO, I totally get what you mean. I'm in the second half of my own RTW, and still have problems getting my mind around it. You just have to play around with it a lot. I'm going to give you an example I tried on the oneworld planner and the great circle mapper. I haven't figured out how to make it appear as a link like some of the posters above have done. It comes out to a little over 51K. You really have to start in jhb to make it work, and you have a DONE5--no Europe. IF you can get the flights. You'd have 4 very short segments, so you have to decide if rambling round Australia worth sacrificing some accrual.
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Anyway, one thing I learned the hard way: book all your flights once you decide on a route. I didn't do that, and when JL quit flying NRT-DPS, I had to re-ticket with a change fee. Once you book, you're covered and they will fix you up. You can always change the dates later. If you're looking a year out, though, you are pretty much stuck, but book as soon as you can. I hope you'll continue to post as you work on this. As you have seen, there are some real geniuses here when it comes to wringing miles out of a trip.