<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Darren:
Mostly because it's extra money for the fifth continent. A not so insignificant amount in many cases. Remember that we are starting these from funky places and are willing to come up with wholly obnoxious routings for a number of different reasons. Some, for miles. Others, to travel to 30 different places on a long ticket. But most people who just want to leave for three weeks or a month to do some traveling are not going to want to bother leaving from Timbuktu to save a few bucks or routing 6000 miles out of their way to reach top tier. If someone wants to visit a limited number of places in Asia and Australia, there is no reason for them to pay for an extra continent. Especially if they have little use for other benefits from it like airline status. </font>
In my case, ( i live in Germany ), I want to visit for one week my friend in Capetown and I want to be around 3 weeks in Thailand.
All together I have 6 1/2 weeks time and want the long haul flights if possible a flat bed ! ( like BA LON-CPT , SYD-BKK , HKG-LON ). The 2. thing is the fare on IBERIA ticket stock is 17.990 EGP what is crossrated about 2300 Euro + taxes. There is no cheaper way to get just one of these places with an other ticket in business ! The 3. thing is to get the maximum output with this tickets on milage and tier points!
( itīs possible to get up to 1500 BA tier points and about 65000 miles each of us in our houshold account ) 100k is a free Southafrica business ticket with BA ! + having top tier and 2000 tier points reached each of us get an upgrade for 2 people rt. on BA/QF !
I would say all in all an interesting thing!