Originally Posted by
PO48RA
This fare has been around for a while. The fare rules allow you to use Etihad to route via AUH. It might be worth playing around with flight numbers, when I looked at this back in January EY flights appeared to attract lower surcharges than AZ ones. FCO - AUH is on the Dreamliner, you can also route TUN - FCO - MXP - AUH - JNB, MXP - AUH is the A330.
The fare allows unlimited free stopovers.
The fare was there, then it disappeared for about 4 months and now seems to be back.