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Jul 25, 2010 | 10:39 am

#16

SwissexLUG

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Originally Posted by Himeno

There is a Africa-SWP flight. SYD-JNB on QF. Doesn't help for a southern xONE3 though, at least not until someone adds a South Atlantic flight.

Oops, forgot that one. Thanks for correcting. Nevertheless, as you said, after Africa you have to go to Europe, making such an itinerary (at least) an xONE4 SWP-Africa-Europe-NA/SA-SWP.

To the OP: either go for a xONE4 which would give you plenty of spare sectors to use (especially in Asia) or buy a xGLOB29 and route LHR-MAD-LIM-SCL-IPC-PPT-AKL-SYD-LHR; in the GLOB fare you can use QF codeshares operated by TN (Air Tahiti Nui) and AFAIK TN operates PPT-AKL with QF codeshare. IPC-PPT would be on LA. The total mileage should be around 28k miles and you may have a stopover in PPT.

Jul 25, 2010 | 4:26 pm

#17

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Originally Posted by Himeno

Maybe they could also extend QF11/12 to SYD-LAX-LHR. Go back to being a round world airline like NZ.

If QF re-established the MEX-LHR route via BDA and NAS, I'm sure it'd be a hit with xONEx users!

Jul 25, 2010 | 5:44 pm

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Originally Posted by SwissexLUG

IIRC correctly, 3 continent fares are only possible from North America, Asia, Europe with a routing involving these three continents. ...

3 Continent is also possible NA-ASIA-SWP-NA or vv; see pandaperth's post #9.

Jul 25, 2010 | 6:07 pm

#19

pandaperth

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Quote:

Originally Posted by serfty

3 Continent is also possible NA-ASIA-SWP-NA or vv; see pandaperth's post #9.

Also possible is SA-NA-ASIA-xNA-SA or variants thereof

Edited to add: Oops - the above starts and ends in SA, which means 'a minimum of a four continent fare'

Possible 3-continent fares begin and end in ASIA or NA, such as:

ASIA-xNA-SA-NA-ASIA or NA-SA-xNA-ASIA-NA

What makes such routings possible are the DEL-ORD flight and the rule which allows a second (transitory) entry to NA.

Last edited by pandaperth; Jul 25, 2010 at 6:12 pm