<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dominick:
I would like to go over the new years for about 10-12 days. I have about 200,000 onepass miles, and 60K on United. What I was thinking of doing was flying to europe on miles and then connecting on a paid flight to Cairo. ANy suggestions as far as the cheapest city to fly out of? How about flying into TLV first? Or would the price make it worth while to spend the 80K africa mileage-fare? thanks!</font>
I found that the cheapest way to get to Egypt (for my dates) on FF miles was to use 40 000 of NWA's worldperks to go to Athens and then buy a ticket on two-hour Olympic
flight "Athens-Cairo" for 211$ (plus airport tax: 248$). I didn't even consider Tel-Aviv since Northwest considers it to be a "Middle East destination" though I assume it must be quite cumbersome, if not risky, to transit through Israel before going to an arab country. Or is it?