Originally Posted by
TakeTwo
I've been avidly reading these forums to figure out how to get the most bang for my buck on a trip around the world. Thanks to the insights here I've splurged just a bit extra in order to get a business class ticket, by cutting its price massively from what it would've cost straight out of Japan, where I live.
A few things that saved me a lot of money:
- starting in Johannesburg (this one was massive)
- ending in Dakar instead of Joburg
- skipping Asia completely
- avoiding London (huge airport taxes)
- trying different codeshares for same flight
Oddly I found that a lot of LAN flights stop existing after April 3.
I'm still tweaking it but would be great to get any input anybody might have. So far I have:
JNB-SYD-AKL-SCL-LIM-EZE-GRU-MIA-MEX-surface-CUN-DFW-YVR-JFK-HEL-MXP-MAD-DKR
I have no particular need to go to DFW or MIA but there were no direct flights so thought I'd check them out.
Again, thanks for the amazing advice.
I'm counting 17 segments (you must include the surface segment) so you need to drop one. Maybe there's a cheap MEX-CUN return trip that you can do outside the RTW, or a Milan-Madrid return ticket that would be cheap.
Lan doesn't seem to have fully populated its schedule past April. Unfortunately you can't book flights if they're not on the current timetable, but you can re-issue the ticket (US$125) once they appear.
Oh and welcome to FT!