Originally Posted by BT87
As I've been checking and keeping myself up to date on the latest rtw rules, I've read that the routing must go through Area 1 (Europe),Area 2 (Africa), and then to Area 3(Asia) or vise versa. Is there any possible way to do Europe-Asia or vise versa non-stop while still including Africa (JNB,CPT)?
At the moment the only possible routing to southern Africa would involve using non-OWE segments past NBO - Thus (Asia)-xLHR-NBO to get there, then on your own, then NBO-LHR for the European bits. Conversely you could go (Asia) - Europe, do your Euro segments, then LHR-NBO-xLHR- and immediately onward to N. or S. America. No other eastern/southern Africa cities will work in this manner.
For the time being, Star Alliance has all the aces in putting Africa-intensive RTWs together.