what happens if i am a no-show for a flight that ends up in me breaking one of the rule of the RTW ticket? In my example, I'm flying BLR-HKG-SIN but have maxed out my stopovers in Asia. I really want to do a stopover in HKG, so what I'm thinking is no-showing for my HKG-SIN flight and simply paying whatever the penalty is for the no show to reschedule the HKG-SIN leg for another day, thereby "buying" an additional stopover. does this make sense?

www.xe.com lets you set exchange rate alerts.

My guess is that the remainder of the ticket would be voided by doing this, so I really don't think it makes sense. But that's just my guess.

you start in asia? otherwise, there are no limit on stopovers..

i start in asia, that's right. tokyo to be exact. there's some dumb rule that i dont quite understand but basically the system will not let me put BLR-HKG as one leg and HKG-SIN as another.

hence my idea to have BLR-HKG-SIN as one and simply miss the HKG-SIN flight, pay the penalty and reschedule it.

The rule is maximum 2 stopovers in the continent of origin. If you're trying to do TYO-BLR-HKG-SIN-<somewhere> with stopovers in BLR, HKG & SIN then a OWE isn't the ticket for you. The only way the ticket would not be forfeited after no-showing HKG-SIN in that situation is if you then reissued the ticket with a transit, rather than a stopover, in SIN. If you then no-showed the outbound from SIN then the rest of the ticket would be void.

very helpful, thank you. will go and scheme somemore.

At the cost of 8 more hours in a plane you could simply fly as ticketed and buy a cheap SIN-HKG-SIN ticket (less than US$200 round trip on TigerAir, for example).

BTW,

CX5153/KA513 is a direct flight from BLR to HKG.
I can find some D and L availability in May.

There is no TYO(HND,NRT)-BLR flight.
Therefore, two segmets have to be used already.
So, be aware of maximum 4 segments in Asian continent.

As far as I can tell, you can only set alerts for specific currency pairs. You can't ask for an alert if any currency (or any of a list of currencies) falls significantly against the GBP or EUR or USD, only if currency XXX falls against the GBP, e.g.

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I agree. The question is which other currency to set the alert for?

Sorry, I only realized what you were saying afterwards. Hence I deleted my post. :-)

Indeed, if I knew which currency would be falling I wouldn't be spending my time shaving a few % off a RTW fare :D

Perhaps a Google alert for "currency plummets" or some such might work?

Make a list of currencies in which xONEx fares can be issued.