Originally Posted by lowside67

Just wanted to rephrase my question a little bit so as to hopefully ask a more direct question. I am based in YVR and am attempting to make a large geographic sweep with my ticket over 3 continents. It looks like Dubai is pretty much out of the question, I can't find any way to get there even close on MPM ending in JNB.

The way I understand the rules are that if I book a J-class reward flight and my "furthest" point is JNB, then I need to calculate the MPM for YVR-LHR-CAI-JNB which is the longest *A route I can find (Air Canada), which yields 10,794 miles. Then applying a 5% bonus, I have 11,334 miles to work with in each direction.

The way there is pretty easy, I would like to stop in Amsterdam and according to the MPM calculations, YVR-AMS (Stop) - JNB (Turn) requires a distance of 10,387 miles even though the actual exact path to get there would have some extra stops along the way which might add distance, is that correct so far?

Then I would like to fly via South America to get home, this is where it gets dicey! My ideal route home would be JNB (Turn) - GRU (Stop) - YVR. However, this has an MPM of 11,488 miles which is frustratingly close, but is beyond the 11,334 calculation I made early. Does this disqualify this itinerary?

Thank you for any help
Mark