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Old Apr 16, 2003 | 3:36 pm
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benoit
 
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bedelman:
[B]yyz-jfk-lax-den-bos-dfw-lgw-ams-lhr-dxb-lhr-hkg-nrt-hkg-kul-hkg-jfk-bos -- 40079 mi </font>
You could put dfw-anc-dfw if you fly in summer. The rule about one international departure and arrival shouldn't hurt you going to the carribean since you are starting in Canada. You could do something like yyz-lga-dfw-anc-dfw-sju-lax-lhr-dxb-lhr-ist-lhr-nrt-hkg-cmb-bkk-hkg-jfk. That's about 50,000 miles.

alaska, puerto rico, constantinople (istanbul), tokyo, sri lanka, and bangkok. Not bad. From puerto rico there are lots of puddle jumper flights and cruises to further explore the carribean.

If you paid for an extra segment on the RTW (or bought the cheapest euro segment one way seperately) you could do something tricky like LHR-DXB-LHR-IST-MAD-AMS-HKG...
This gets you to AMS where you have business, Cathay flies from there to HKG, and you get to visit Madrid too. You could try IST-BCN instead since barcelona might be nicer. The Greek islands in the summer would be awfully tempting also.

For my own RTW I am carefully studying Finnair flights to Rhodes, Crete, Thessaloniki.

Since you are buying your RTW after april 15th, you'll have to think twice about adding another continent, since you will bump up against the new 20 segment limit.

Edit: I obviously forgot about the two stopover limit in continent of origin. Doh. This still works if you have less than 24 hours in New York (where you had quick business) and in DFW (where you just wanted to go to a theme park).

[This message has been edited by benoit (edited 04-16-2003).]
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