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Old Oct 10, 2003 | 3:14 am
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enjoystravel
 
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PrudentBear, you may also want to state your goals and constraints. Are you shooting for high base mileage, upgradeable segments on your favorite carrier, tier points - etc.?

For example, you have a lot of unused segments and can use them in each area (several in SWP, the full 4 in Asia, the ones in Europe). Look at some of the sample itineraries and guidelines posted by others in earlier threads. The core strategies have been the same with OW RTW (maximize on long segments) as opposed to * RTW.

For example on return to BOM or CMB, you can use LHR-HKG-CMB/BOM instead of LHR-BOM. Are you able to trade-off travel time for extra miles/tier points (the core principle of RTW mileage runs)?
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