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Old Feb 17, 2005 | 10:12 pm
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Originally Posted by seaskybound
Also if you fly JFK-NRT (for example) in F it is probably cheaper just to go around the world am I correct?

Anyways what are the other tricks of the trade?
Yes, materially cheaper. And if you are doing HKG-US East Coast, which direction you go makes no difference (roughly equidistant), so going on a OWE RTW instead of RT transpac is the way to go. Cheaper, and you get all kinds of freebie segments thrown in.
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