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Old Dec 6, 2003 | 5:50 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JohnAx:
So which price was correct? What in fact were the two numbers?

Airport taxes are becoming very substantial in some cases, but even so the USD$350 difference is a surprising number. I'd expect TOTAL taxes on an rtw to be in that ballpark, depending on how many times you stopped at Heathrow and other such pricey places.</font>
BA was EGP29,091.40 vs AA which was 27,350.34. Both were for an AONE3 ex CAI. It truly makes you wonder. Also the BA CAI office didn't interpret the stopover rules in the same way that AA did. As a result, AA won my business despite the problems with the RTW desk I had.

On a side question since I have the RTW experts reading this message, I am looking at my next RTW trip which will be ex-CAI. I would like to include SEZ in my trip. I would like to confirm that I can only enter Africa from Europe, HKG, or SYD/PER. Can you please confirm that I cannot go from Africa (neither Ghana nor Nigeria) to North American by transiting London, i.e. I cannot go from SEZ, MRU, JNB, CPT to JFK. IF there is a way to work it, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.
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