Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
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Given the price of D/AONEs in N. America, and given your route, I'm inclined to think you'd be better off starting and ending the trip in Europe. You'd save significant money on the ticket price, and you'd be allowed the full six stopovers in N. America (including Central America and the Caribbean). You'd easily earn enough miles to replace any award miles used to get there in the first place, or if traveling off-season you could buy a cheap hop over the pond, and start someplace cheaper than N. America (particularly if traveling in J.) For instance a DONE4 starting in N. America is currently $8300 while it's around $6600 in Sweden.
Devour the sticky threads - lots of answers there.
Looking at AONE4. Sweden looks to be about 1000 cheaper than NYC. Italy which would be ideal is actually more. Maybe some way to get it to start in DXB
That 2 stopover thing is something I need to relook at. Would I be able to end it in MCO. And do my own thing back to NY? To avoid a stop over in mco in their eyes?
BTW. Season of travel is April.