MA dropping BUD-CAI?
 

I tried to add BUD-CAI to my LONE5, but the AA RTW desk rejected it. I checked Malev's timetables on their website, and they're showing twice weekly services now (MA 220), but if you search that route in August it says there are no flights.

Does anyone know more about this? Are they really discontinuing it, or is it a seasonal service, or is it just that MA hasn't prepared the timetables yet? It throws a real spanner in the works of my LONE5...

I was going to fly into HEL, and overland go to St Petersburg, Moscow, Lithuania, and Croatia, then pick the LONE5 back up in BUD for a flight to CAI. Full route into, through, and out of Europe was going to be BKK-HEL//BUD-CAI//AMM-IST-MAD-PTY.

Now it looks like I'll have to buy a separate flight from somewhere in Central Europe to CAI. At least it would free up two segments in Europe, because the routing would be BKK-HEL//AMM-IST-MAD-PTY, and I'd find a way to use those to get me to two other destinations in Europe I would have otherwise bought tickets to or used points (Morocco and Iceland), by making the routing something like BKK-HEL//AMM-IST-LON-RAK-MAD-PTY (buying a LON-KEF flight will be much cheaper than a MAD-KEF one)

MA has dropped the BUD-CAI route from 6th May 2008. Not sure if it is a seasonal thing though. The only flights to CAI are from LHR, MAD and AMM.

There are no oneworld flights to Iceland. BA dropped it some time back. Your itinerary also consists of more than 4 segments in Europe. Overland segments do count as a segment, for tickets issued after July 2007.

MA have a lot of seasonal routes... their US routes are seasonal, the BKK route is seasonal, so I wouldn't be surprised if CAI was also.

Overland segments only count towards the overall segment allowance of 20. They do not count towards individual continent allowances.