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Jan 19, 2006 | 3:24 am

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bowman

Join Date: May 2004

Location: Stockholm, NYC

Programs: UA 1K, AY Gold, Hyatt diamond.

Posts: 157

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Originally Posted by Gardyloo

Check the current WAW DONEx pricing - it was increased last year and IIRC is no longer competitive with other origin points, especially IST and even GIB.

Since NBO is no longer served from JNB you're pretty limited on the use of your African segments - most legs under 800 miles.

Starting in IST would not preclude the DXB flights. Turkey is not in the middle east.

Thanks

I made an itn, but when I checked it at http://jph.bytestacker.com/award.htm it said "Rule violated!!!! [JNB-LHR] Max 1 segment(s): Ghana/Nigeria transit"

What's the problem?

ist-lhr-dxb-lhr-jnb-lhr-lax-sjo-dfw-anc-dfw-sfo-jfk-hkg-nrt-hkg-del-hkg-lhr-ist

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