Silver, thanks very much for your help- your link to the OWE rules cleared a lot of basic things up (like the first line of rules that says if I want to begin in Europe and include Aus, it must be a minimum of 4 conts and not 3 like I had planned ). I only wish I'd found those rules earlier.
As you say, I will indeed have to modify the route to include N.America. At least it means that I may be able to get a BA Gold card out of it instead of the silver one that I would have got on my planned routing
Regarding having the ticket issued in Hungary- if I got in touch with BA Budapest over the phone, could I buy the ticket by credit card and have it posted to my UK address? Would this still comply with the SITI rule? Sorry if the answer is obvious- I'm still a bit new to this business.
Thanks again for your detailed reply.
Salt.

[This message has been edited by salt (edited 10-06-2000).]