Originally Posted by number_6
You are a bit too late, the prices were attractive before the July 2006 price increase, now it is not so attractive (at least when you factor in the location and the need to add an extra continent if you weren't wanting Africa). I have no doubt that the posted fare increase is real.
As far as I can tell from the July *file, the price from MRU didn't change. For a FOUR continent AOWE it comes in at around US$6,038 + taxes, whereas the best THREE continent AOWE is still around US$7,136 (Qatar) - I've just purchased the latter. The problem with MRU is the difficulty and cost of getting there and then finding a way of departing without going back through LHR. From Sept 16 BA (Comair) have a Saturdays only MRU-JNB which helps, but there is no A class, just as there is no A class from, say, JNB to HKG. Even JNB to SYD only has A class on certain days of the week.
So, in theory, MRU looks good, but for First Class RTWs it's pretty limited.