Having decided that the hassle of originating the RTW from KRT was not worth the saving when we consider that there's no F class service anyway, I'm now looking at going the fairly well-established route of ex-TLV.

However, I have a few questions that I hope you experts can help me with:

- Is it possible to end the RTW in another location other than TLV. I know that you can end in another city in the originating country or another country if originating in the ME but it's not clear whether you can do the same with TLV i.e. is it classed as Europe, ME or North Africa? All confusing.

- Is QF9 MEL-SIN-LHR counted as one segment against my 16 (because it has one flight number) or two?

- Is there anyway to avoid the dreaded BA YQ while still starting on BA metal TLV-LHR?

- Can anybody suggest a good way to use up the remaining segments of my current itinerary? We'd like to go to interesting place but our other priorities are F segments and tier points. I guess we could do some more segments in Europe? My current itinerary is looking like:
TLV-LHR-LAX-DFW-YVR-JFK-HKG-HND-SIN-SYD-MEL-SIN-LHR-TLV

MEL-SIN-LHR was planned for QF9
TLV-LHR-LAX as BA F transit
We will use the positioning to TLV to take a stopover in TLV before starting the RTW
Can make the second LHR trip either a stopover or a transit