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Old Jun 19, 2013 | 3:17 pm
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Originally Posted by milesmuncher
[*]Availability out of Europe down to JNB was also really hard to find during this time of year, but I recall fights from South America having better availability. SAA does fly direct from either GRU or EZE to JNB (maybe both)
I'm thinking of trying to book an award to Mauritius via South Africa in C:

NYC-XXX-JNB-MRU

SA's non-stops from the US have very low award availability, and it's also very hard to find Europe to JNB availability. What seems to work better for XXX is:

EZE (Buenos Aires)
GRU (Rio)
Some Asian hubs (I forget which)

So my questions are:

1. Has anyone actually managed to book US-South America-JNB post-merger? Or US-Asia-JNB? Are routings to South Africa via South America or Asia allowed?

2. I found availability on LGA-IAH-EZE-JNB-MRU. That's 4 segments. Is that allowed? There was some discussion on another thread about limits to the number of segments (supposedly 4 for RT, 3 for one way). Does that seem to be the case?
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