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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 4:23 pm
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Mwenenzi
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G'day Nick. Welcome to FT. Look like you will miss Oz Fest 5 in Hobart (23-25 May 08)

You can back track as much as you like in continents. Your trip looks like doing the shortest flights. For example you can do LHR-LAX-JFK to get more frequent flyer miles. Direct flights are not always the best. Longer flights where you can sleep and flights with more civilised departure & arrival times are sometimes better choices

Flights in Eu can be very cheap. And Eu is very small compared to Oz (even compared to Tassie) . *ONE* tickets can get you to places that are very expensive or hard to get to. Would recommend Easter Island (SCL-IPC-SCL)

SCL-AKL/SYD is hard to get in L (economy LONE5), but you are permitted to do a transit in NA on the way back from South America to Oz. eg SCL-LAX-MEL

Put your itinerary in Mileage Monkey to check if its OK. MM is not always 100% but a very good starting point. Some flights are seasonable, so don't always work in MM
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