CX rated the ticket and didn't have any problems with it! Unfortunately, I had to redo the South American portion as there weren't *any* flights that worked GRU-SCL, even on other airlines. Either they left too early or got in too late. So, off it goes again to the rate desk. Makes me SO mad. Oh well, the new routing gives me more mileage anyway. Here it is.

jnb-hkg-cgk-hkg-nrt-hkg-syd-lax-dfw-gru-scl-lax-dfw-lax-sxm-jfk-dfw-lhr-dxb-lhr-jnb.

My total mileage is 66236 miles which will equal 99354 Q points. I'll be making at least two DFW-CRP-DFW connections on my own which, at 500 Q points per RT, will put me over EXP easily. The old itinerary priced out at $4206 base fare, with taxes the total was $4402.60. Incredible for F considering I spent more than that for IAH-HNL-GUM-TPExHKG-EWR-IAH-CRP!

CX was really a pleasure to deal with on this, although I'll withhold full praise until the ticket is actually in hand. So far though, they've been very easy to deal with (I offered to fax the itinerary and they said they'd be happy to take it over the phone if I wanted to do it that way.) and all but one of the phone agents have had decent RTW knowledge. It took them exactly a day to price the itin, despite it getting requeued to the fares desk 4 times! Hopefully they have it done as quickly this time.

As far as getting to/from, JNB is rather time consuming to get to, but worth it! Luckily, I found a very inexpensive fare home on SAA JNB-GRU in F, and I'll use mileage to get home on AA GRU-CRP.

Oh, and I'll only be in a hotel one night in HKG. The rest of the time, it's fully flat sleeper beds for me.

[This message has been edited by kanebear (edited 12-27-2001).]