Newbie to RTW travel with a couple of questions for a trip in the fall 08 to spring 09

1) If the Europe air portion is started at LHR & finished at LWG then over land to Asia is that allowed?

2) Want to visit Taj Mahal, realize can't do it on One World, was thinking Air India from Bangkok to New Delhi to Akra return Bangkok?????

3) What problems do you see with the following itinerary?

note land travel LGW-BKK PER-CNS PTY-SJO

YYZ-LHR-CAI-AMM-LGW//BKK-NRT-SIN-DPS-PER//CNS-AKL-HNL-LAX-PTY//SJO-ANC-YYZ

Not sure if I listed that right as there will be stops 4 of the flights but same flight #

Thanks for any responce

You can fly into delhi from HkG, NRT or LHR so it is certainly possible.

Yes.

ps. Welcome to FT !

This is really 4 segments: SJO-DFW-ANC-DFW-YYZ.

Hi & welcome to FT! I assume you are looking at a xONE4 (oneworld explorer for 4 continents)

The main problem I see with your itinerary is that many segments are not operated directly by any OW airline. You might therefore end up needing more segments than you're allowed.

In particular I identified following problems:
- no direct flights between CNS and AKL (via BNE or SYD possible) as well as between AKL and HNL (via SYD). This will require two more segments inside Southwest Pacific;
- same between LAX-PTY (via MIA), SJO-ANC (via DFW in summer only) and ANC-YYZ (via DFW). Here you need at least three more segments than planned in your itinerary and you would exceed the total of 6 flights allowed for North America (HNL-LAX-MIA-PTY//SJO-DFW-ANC-DFW-YYZ uses 8 segments counting to the total of 20 & 7 flights counting towards the continental total of 6);
- note that only TWO stopovers are allowed in your continent of origin (North America), therefore only two among HNL, PTY/SJO and ANC can be stopovers.

Hope that can help

Thanks will have to try again as I couldn't find any One World airlines going to India.

The quick replies on this forum are appreciated.

Dial up is so slow 2 more replies since I posted this & all very helpfull. I thought might be a problem with the NA part, back to plan B, will post revised itinerary when it is done.

Thanks every one

CX, JL and BA fly into DEL.

This forum's response time makes even Planck time look slow, particularly when one makes a mistake.

That's good as I have been known to make mistakes.

Not you, I meant mistakes made by those of us brave enough to give advice that a split second later is found to be in error.

As does RJ.

And AY...

And HEL.

I rest my case.

It's confirmed. We have no lives...