I live in Toronto. Say that I want to include St. Lucia on a OWE RTW ticket. The only way to get there is to take a minimum of three flights (e.g. YYZ - DTW - SJU - SLU). Then one has to get back to the mainland to connect somewhere else. Will all these flights count towards the 6 segments maximum for North America? Is it just me, or is this not such a great deal - the OWE rules practically precludes all the small interesting places!

Secondly, do inter-continental flights count as segments. If so - what continent is it "charged" to - where one departs or where one arrives?

The lack of a mileage restriction sounded great at first but I'm not so sure anymore.