Hi Guys,

First of all apologies if this question has been asked a hundred times - I've been doing a bit of searching on the forum and found some really useful stuff but I would still appreciate all of your learned opinions!

Me and my girlfriend are planning a RTW adventure starting in July this year. I've got an itinery that works on the Oneworld planner - but there are a few issues (I've read the tools bug thread so at least everyone is experiencing them!). One of my big problems is that there are missing flights that I know exist - but the alternatives require connections which are taking up my number of segments unnecessarily. Eg London to Colombo is directing via Frankfurt and Auckland to Santiago is directing via Sydney which takes up an extra two segments! I also have Buenos Aires to El Calafate on the list - but this flight doesn't seem to exist at all in the planner, so how could I book it?

What would be your advice on this - would it be better to get an agent to book, would this cost me much more money?

My final question surrounds the segments allowed on each continent - I believe it's four, but is this four cities that you are allowed to stop in or is it the flights between the cities that count!?

Appreciate any help you could offer,

Andy