I used an AA oneworld business class award ticket. It cost 130K miles, good for 20K miles in the itinerary. The regular AA-BA award to Africa would have cost 150K miles. What I liked was the ability to create my own routing with as many stopovers as I wanted. A hidden plus is the fact that mileage can be less than adding up the segments when one does not make a stopover (connection less than 24 hours). The mileage from JNB-LHR-MUC was determined as an amount of the direct line, ie 5300 miles instead of the 5600+725 sum for the two segments. The only drawback is that routing or carrier changes cannot be made once ticketed and no BA across the Atlantic Ocean. And eclipse day was completely clear skies and terrific.

[This message has been edited by headinclouds (edited 09-06-2001).]

[This message has been edited by headinclouds (edited 09-06-2001).]