thanks hagbard. original plan was to go to australia in oct but cruise came up & is not being repeated in spring. so thought that going south might allow f or j rides for i more continent. might jump ship in canaries & come back to us. have to find out if canaries are africa or if africa is only east of europe. no open jaw on owe? i'm about to think i should go ahead & talk w/ aa rate desk. if i sprung for f , adding africa would be about $800 whuch looked like a good deal..... perhaps this plan is no good. if europe to africa is west rather than north & south then it work for me...... i want to start in arn, go to cpt[no europe segments- save those for next yr], go back to europe in transit to usa ? [possibly use us segments to get bogie] then start 02 trip from us going west.

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