Originally Posted by JohnAx
To me MRU is the rainbow leading to an imaginary pot of gold. Unless you plan to tour Mauritius (ho-hum) connecting through there involves uncomfortable schedules and misconnects to infrequent northbound services (not to mention all the talk about the difficulty in getting A seats). Factor a couple of days of your life with attendant hotel and other costs into the "savings".
Not really, you can "escape" from MRU using MRU-JNB-HKG and wind up at the end using LHR-CPT. Not bad if you wish to tour South Africa. As I am in India during that time, getting to MRU is pretty easy as well to start off.