Yes, you have to start the trip from point A, if you want to pay the price of point A.

You're also right that this has been covered, reading the sticky FAQs could provide you with some fruitful info.

If you go to the spread sheet linked in the first post the fares seem to me to be correct.

Yikes!
 

Am I seeing this right... Is Egypt like doulbe AONEX from what it used to be just 2 or so years ago?

Really seems like OW is closing the noose on the very low cost countries. Guess I shouldn't have waited this long to really start planning out a RTW :(

What are the "realistic" best options? I see the price list, but are the lowest cost places doable? (PM me if discretion is needed in reply)

ps - I currently have enough award miles to get myself anywhere in the World I would need to go to get this thing started.

So what are the new base prices for AONEx and DONEx in EGP?

/hv

Just convert those shown in post no. 52. 1 USD = 5.77 EGP.

At least the aones seem to be exactly the same as the pre 15.1. prices...

/hv

The AONE3 is the same price. The AONE4, 5, and 6 went up substantially.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showp...4&postcount=41

I have a different stupid question than tallboy - can you blow off the last leg(s) that get you back to your origin? So if people are buying in Thailand or wherever, can they fly west around the world until they hit the US and then just stop? Thx!

A search will give you many more comments about this often discussed topic, it depends on the level of risk you are willing to take...I know most of us are not willing to risk throwing away a trans-pacific coupon.

Realized I had one more (and I am reading up on the FAQs and searching)... none of the rules are exactly clear on if overland segments are allowed. I assume they are, because the desktop tool seems to allow you to add them, and places like Airtreks supports them?

Thanks!

overland segments are allowed with a few exceptions. no surface segments betweeen hi and the mainland usa. no transoceanic surface segments.

the concept of rtw tickets is to travel 'round the world'. starting in asia, but stopping in usa is not a 'round the world' trip. again, with a few exceptions (middle east, africa, south america, usa/canada), one must end a trip in the same country as where one began the trip.

That was amended recently to allow one "transoceanic" surface seg for travel originating in the SWP. Not clear on the rationale.

Maybe a cruise or something...? Weird that it's only allowed from SWP, though...anyone with further information regarding this exception?

I get the part about not wanting to 'give up' a trans-pacific.

But what do you mean by risk?

If for example my start was bkk and it ended with scl-jfk-hkg-bkk and I decided not to take the last segment (hkg-bkk) and end at hkg. What could they do? Tell me I didn't complete the RTW that was ticketed and i owe them money? Doesn't sound right.

The collective wisdom here suggests that if you don't complete the RTW as per the coupons (ie the contract), they "could" charge you for the full fare cost of every sector - big $$ - especially if you paid by cc and they still have the number recorded. Really, with the cost of BKK-HKG fares, it is a small cost after a huge saving on the RTW fare.