Originally Posted by
hairpeace
But wouldn't flying to Dubai or Muscat be considered flying out of Europe? I still need to do LHR-CPT afterward.
No, since OW defines the continent "Europe" as Europe/Middle East/North Africa and this includes DXB and MCT (as well as a lot of other destinations which cannot be considered as "European" from a geographic point of view; e.g. Tel Aviv, Cairo).