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Mar 18, 2016 | 2:14 pm

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Originally Posted by Full Score

BA/Comair have announced a new weekly service (Saturdays) between Johannesburg and the island of St Helena from this summer.

JNB-HLE dep 08:20 arr 11:30
HLE-JNB dep 12:30 arr 18:30

Once tickets are on sale, I'm hoping that it will be possible to incorporate these two legs into a RTW. Since there are no other flights in/out of HLE (apart from a possible charter airline from Luton, England) it will be interesting to see if it can be counted as a South African route when the RTW starts in JNB.

MRU, which also has a BA/Comair service, allows JNB-MRU-LHR...., but won't allow a return leg JNB-MRU-JNB as it considers re-entry into SA to be the end of the ticket. Since there is no option but to return to JNB from HLE, maybe it will be considered an "internal" SA flight, so beginning the RTW something like CPT-JNB-HLE-JNB-LHR....?

You can't transit the country of origin between international legs, so JNB-HLE-JNB would only be valid if you're originating somewhere besides South Africa. And BTW BA flies to Gatwick from MRU.

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