I tried to add BUD-CAI to my LONE5, but the AA RTW desk rejected it. I checked Malev's timetables on their website, and they're showing twice weekly services now (MA 220), but if you search that route in August it says there are no flights.

Does anyone know more about this? Are they really discontinuing it, or is it a seasonal service, or is it just that MA hasn't prepared the timetables yet? It throws a real spanner in the works of my LONE5...

I was going to fly into HEL, and overland go to St Petersburg, Moscow, Lithuania, and Croatia, then pick the LONE5 back up in BUD for a flight to CAI. Full route into, through, and out of Europe was going to be BKK-HEL//BUD-CAI//AMM-IST-MAD-PTY.

Now it looks like I'll have to buy a separate flight from somewhere in Central Europe to CAI. At least it would free up two segments in Europe, because the routing would be BKK-HEL//AMM-IST-MAD-PTY, and I'd find a way to use those to get me to two other destinations in Europe I would have otherwise bought tickets to or used points (Morocco and Iceland), by making the routing something like BKK-HEL//AMM-IST-LON-RAK-MAD-PTY (buying a LON-KEF flight will be much cheaper than a MAD-KEF one)