<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Hagbard Viking:
Seems to me that your original routing is 28,658 miles. Going EDI-FRA-BKK instead of EDI-CPH-BKK makes the total 28,885, i.e., still less than 29k. Does * tell you something different? Also, you can save a few hundred miles if you have to by doing CDG-CPH rather than CDG-LHR-CPH. </font>
Using the Singapore Airlines mileage calculator indicated mileage above 29,000. I had SAS check the itinerary and they confirmed that was the case. When I used the £Great Circle Mapper" the total came out bbelow 29,000. This was also the same when I checked a routing ex-AMS. Great Circle Mapper said it was <29,000. Singapore Airlines said it was above. My own calculation using SQ's web based calculator said the same. It seems Great Circle Mapper errs on the low side.
The reason I am returning to LHR instead of going direct to CPH is that I'm going back home to EDI. The *A rules don't allow 2 stopovers in the same destination I have to "stopover" in LHR. Sorry for the confusion, I made an error and put "Stopover" rather than "Transit". I'll take a cheap (or miles) flight from LHR to EDI. I may never use the LHR-CPH leg unless it is to start another RTW from CPH.
[This message has been edited by Gaza (edited 10-19-2001).]