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Old Nov 30, 2015 | 4:48 pm
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rens
 
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Originally Posted by 747-444
Hi All,

I am going to be in Mauritius in December, following that I am visiting the family in South Africa. I thought I should look into starting a DONE4 in MRU but when I saw the base fare in USD being 50% more than in South Africa I thought NO WAY. However, it then struck me.

Can I buy my ticket in SA and start with a 'surface sector'. As in JNB-MRU (surface sector) and make my first flight BA MRU-JNB?

My routing would then be:

JNB-MRU(surface sector)-JNB-LHR-JFK-etc.

Can I do that?
Even if you could, which I very much doubt, The two sectors used seem a poor trade off for the about 14,000MUR cost of a one way ticket MUR-JNB.
Is there something unique that I am missing which makes this trade off attractive?
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