Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
Welcome to FT, and yes. You will be charged the mileage between Moscow and wherever your next flight departs.
We are (re)planning our trip around the world and now want to take the train from moskow till beijing and take a flight to Tokyo.
One world says:
If you choose to travel by surface transport, the most direct flown distance between the origin and destination point of the surface sector will be counted towards your total flown mileage.
Option 1:
A direct flight from Moskow to Beijing is not possible, there is a indirect flight via Helsinki and that is in total 4,467 miles. From Beijing to Tokyo is 1,328 (direct flight). This means 5,795 miles
Option 2:
buy a one way ticket to Tokyo ourselves and have a over land trip in our RTW ticket from Moskow to Tokyo. This is 4,675 miles.
It seams that option 1 is the better than option 2 (if you stay in the same Tier). But is my theory about option 1 correct??
And one more question: we want to travel by land from Xian (SIA) to Delhi (DEL). The one world online timetable states that there are no flights. How do they calculate the miles??