Don't think the word 'perceived' is needed - they are good value, without a doubt
I've just pulled the fares for KRT and PER from KVS into a spreadsheet and compared them

Economy fares ex-KRT are 1/3rd the fares from PER
Business and First fares 1/5 to 1/4 the fares from PER

Extreme example:

I'm disappointed to hear that $75 (or whatever the fee mentioned was) buys only the keystrokes needed to turn a priced pnr into an e-ticket.

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You should see some of the other alternatives - they run into several hundreds. These guys are pretty good and efficient.

Yes thats right. Mine is endng in Abud Dhabi. It needs to be in Middle East - for some reason choosing Amman gives a much higher price.

+1^
Naeem took all of fours hours from go to whoa to ticket our DONE4 tickets

So really - the whole process was pretty painless

• 20 mins on the phone to the AA RTW desk to make the booking
• 5 mins on the phone 48hrs later to get the price in CAD
• a bit of email ping pong with Naeem to pay and get it ticketed

Perhaps conflict and unrest in Khartoum should be considered by people planning for ex-KRT travel:

"Military Factory Bombed in Sudan’s Capital"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/wo...oum.html?_r=1&

The U.S. State Department http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_p...w/tw_5768.html posted this on 15 September and I didn't find a "we're now open" advisory, but on their Khartoum site http://sudan.usembassy.gov/ it appears that they've re-opened for business, apparently including dependents at least 21 years old:
Their warnings are generally for travel outside Khartoum, notwithstanding that small matter of the embassy being attacked.

Australia provides travel advice too: http://www.smartraveller.gov.au/zw-c...w/Advice/Sudan. Succinctly: for Khartoum "reconsider your need to travel"; outside the city, "Do not travel".

Note that I'm not climbing on a soap-box telling anyone not to travel; I'm considering originating there myself, but will not spend more time on the ground than absolutely necessary and will surely be carrying my GlobalRescue card.

My post is just in case anyone doesn't realize that State does have a charter to protect citizens and publishes generally candid assessments of travel risks.

I'm looking at a similar plan: arriving on TK (HEL-ist-KRT) at 0220 and leaving on the RJ at 0625 (i.e., within the six hours). My departure from HEL is less than 24 hours before the departure from KRT so the RJ online check-in will be open and I expect to have my KRT-AMM BP printed before I leave HEL.

The confusing thing in the above-quoted rule is the bit about the 'onward carrier'. If TK are worried about letting me board at HEL (or IST) without a Sudanese visa, I will have my onward ticket and BP to show them. But how does RJ, the onward carrier, get in the game before I show up at KRT? Of course, if they looked, they would be able to see that I had checked in online -- but, as lerasp says, what about getting them to tell the Sudanese?

There's another factor which I haven't seen raised yet in this discussion, and that is -- what exactly is airside transit like at KRT? Do you come off the airbridge (or, perhaps more likely, off the bus) into the terminal, check the monitor for your next flight's gate info, and just go there (or to the lounge)? Or is it perhaps like in America, where there is no airside transit and all arriving international pax have to go through pass control? If the former, how do they even know how long it is (or has been) between your flights?

Maybe someone who has actually been to/through KRT could brief us on the procedure?

cheers,

Henry

Not useful, but an amusing tale re a visit to Khartoum by a traveler with connections there: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntre...readID=2263054

This traveler's blog points out that getting a Sudanese visa in Cairo is (relatively) quick and easy: http://whereiskachangas.weebly.com/3...ion-sudan.html

but another contributed this (June 2012):

Thanks to all in this thread. Booked my ex-KRT DONE4 this AM with a 24 hour stopover in Khartoum just to see the place. Going for a visa in London tomorrow - hopefully the embassy likes US citizens w/ UK residence permits.

HI

I'm not sure that you can check in online for flights ex AMM ....
when I've gone to that on the RJ website KRT does not come up as an option ..... but I hope I might be wrong!

You can contact RJ at KRT airport - there is an email address on the RJ website under contacts etc
They will tell you to email them your incoming and outgoing itineraries ....
I have communicated with them about a possible forthcoming trip and have had prompt and helpful responses.

There is more information about the transit earlier on in this long thread but I think your expectations are not in the right ballpark ..... this is by reputation and anecdote one of the worst airports in the world ....
I believe you inform an Immigration Official that you are in transit and then you are in their hands .... they will eventually bus you over to departures to check in and then escort you back through airside - or I believe sometimes they organize check-in for you.
One poster on here who has done it successfully - said that it is not for the faint-hearted .....

Whatever it sounds like you need to be prepared for a bit of an adventure to do this !

Thanks for your reply.

Looking at both

http://rj.com/en/web_check-in.html
and
http://rj.com/en/get_your_boarding_pass_online.html

there is no suggestion that this facility may be available for some departure airports but not for others. On the other hand, expecting it to happen but then finding on the day that for whatever reason it doesn't could well indeed introduce an unpleasant element of ... shall we say, chaos ... into the travel experience. :(

I think I found the anecdote to which you are referring ... from almost a year ago?!? From that report, it would seem that not very many people change planes at KRT! :)

cheers,

Henry

AONE6 Routing Question ex Khartoum
 

Hi,
I could use a bit of help with my latest AONE6 (ex KHT) itinerary.

I the cities I want to include are LHR, SYD, JNB, HKG, LAX, JFK, GRU, SCL.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to include the LHR-SYD (or SYD-LHR) segment and as well as including JNB in the itinerary with a valid routing?

The only way I can find to do it violates the routing rules (as I understand them) by entering TC2 twice.

KHT-AMM-LHR-SYD-JNB-HKG-LAX-JFK-GRU-SCL-(x)LAX-(x)LHR-DXB

Since I'm re-entering Asia (TC2) after leaving Europe/Mid-East (TC2), I believe this makes the routing invalid.

Also, I would prefer to start the trip KHT-AMM-DXB-LHR rather than KHT-AMM-LHR but seem to remember reading a rule that specified you could only have two segments in the continent of origin before departing. Is this still the case?

I'd appreciate any advice or help anyone might have.
Thanks

Presumably you mean KRT, not KHT, because (a) you are posting in this thread and (b) there is no oneworld service to Khost. :)

You also don't say that you have to do the stops in this particular order, so could you please explain why you have ruled out the obvious: go to SYD after JNB and HKG. Problem solved -- at least according to the Mileage Monkey.

cheers,

Henry