Originally Posted by gabrielz
Are you doing this just to do an RTW, or did you actually want to see something in the Americas?
If you just want to go from Europe to Asia, why don't you go the other way (Eastbound) and save yourself the US transit hassle.[/
Well, I've got family in Canada (YYZ) so that was on the list. Brazil (GRU/GIG) was somewhere where we have never been to before, so that was the other option. We definitely wanted to include one of these two, if not both, in this RTW ticket. MEX only entered the picture because of the only F class flight FRA-MEX, as there was nothing in F into Canada.
Originally Posted by gabrielz
And, is the issue visas, or simply that the pax in question don't feel like going through the ignominious US-Visit schtick?
1 member of the group would have to go through a long process to get the visa. The other two of us just don't feel like going thru the whole schtick anyways, even if it means doing the transpacific in J class.