<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Guava:
You are right, except ex-CAI, your only possible First Class connection is to LHR - so 2 continents already. Then if the pax wants to come to North America, that's 3. But once in NA, the pax need to do at least one pacific crossing to make it a legal RTW fare and there is no way this can be acheived using only 3 continents.
The ex-CAI thing is good on paper but it is not practical since there is no possbility connect within the African contient for a First Class award.</font>
The airlines do not consider CAI as Africa but as part of Europe and the Middle East. Thus, CAI-LHR involves only one continent, not two. (Scary that airlines are that poor in figuring out geography.
) CAI-LHR-JFK-HKG-LHR-CAI can be done on a three continent OWE.