Originally Posted by
skipaway
The infamous booking tool (I tried it the other day) was so frustrating--no differentiation on direct, one stop, and multi-segment flights. All cities were represented by the same little round dot. There is a segment counter down at the bottom, but it just tells you how many cities you've entered and is wrong on the segments. No matter what city pair I entered, the map drew a dotted line between them, and the counter went up by one.
The tool doesn't know how many segment you are using until you pick flights.
Originally Posted by
skipaway
Also, the Where We Fly Map has disappeared.
That's very disappointing. I used that tool. I liked the visualization.
Originally Posted by
skipaway
I did find a helpful outside site, flightconnections.com. You enter a city and it will give you every nonstop destination available from that city. It has an alliance filter to boot!
I haven't tried that site. I use ExpertFlyer to find what flights are possible to/from a city. It's a bit cumbersome but shows accurate information, including which airlines, which codeshares, flight duration, flight mileage, equipment, frequency, etc. It's under "Flight Timetables Search" then "Search By Departure/Arrival City" (pick either departing from or arriving into and the date), then when you get the results, click "Filter Search Results," then "deselect all" and then click the airlines in the OneWorld alliance that are listed (only airlines operating or codesharing are shown). You can click a column to sort by it.
When I'm planning an RTW, I build potential itineraries in a spreadsheet. I check the flights on EF, and put them in the spreadsheet, one flight per row. By entering the arrival and departure times, and an arrival day offset (i.e., +1, +2 for flights that arrive the following day or two days later), the spreadsheet calculates the connection time, if something is a connection versus a stop, the total flown miles, and the earnings. It helps me plan, including picking routes and flights that are more likely to be enjoyable (e.g., no short overnight red-eyes).