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Old Aug 28, 2005 | 10:52 am
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mdavies
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
With nested RTWs you are going around the world twice (within a year). Can save a lot of money but sometimes may be better to do a paid or award round trip to get to the "cheap" RTW origin point rather than nesting with another RTW.
One of the main reasons I was looking at the nested was for the extra 20 segments. Seems like a bit of waste to do 20 segs on 6 continents, when for not much more, I can get 40 segs on 6 continents simply by buying a second RTW ticket somewhere else. I realize there is the whole having to go around the world twice issue, but I'm sure we can sort something out with that (drop in at home for a holiday or something).

Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
Note that for One World Explorer purposes, Cairo is part of Europe
Originally Posted by Unterwegs
CAI is Europe. So the second RTW would need to be a Europe-Africa-Australia-SouthAm-Europe. Check the flights Australia-Africa and SouthAm-Australia. Only few possibilities, and sometimes difficult to get seats.
what a ridiculous thing to do, calling CAI Europe. Thanks for that info. in that case, what is a "good grouping" of continents? Would it make sense to do a AONE3 ex-US, then a AONE4 ex-CAI, so I could do something like North Am - Europe - Australia ex-US, then Europe - Africa - Asia - SouthAm ex-CAI, doubling up on europe?

Thanks for your help!
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