The Maximiser RTW
Nov 28, 2010, 9:15 am
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The Maximiser RTW
I am currently planning a RTW for some longer vacations and was playing around with the Star Alliance tool to find a routing ex South Africa with (a) a high number of F/C flghts and (b) close to 39k miles. Well, the result was a routing with exactly 39.000 miles and a bunch of F/C flight:
Capetown - JNB - FRA - Dusseldorf in SA/LH C and LH First
Dusseldorf - Chicago in LH First
Chicago - San Francisco in UA International F
San Francisco - Hong Kong in SQ First
Hong Kong - Singapore in SQ First
Singapore - Bangkok in SQ C
Bangkok - Frankfurt in TG First
Frankfurt - Dubai in LH First
Dubai - Muscat in LX First
Muscat - Zurich in LX First
Zurich - Johannesburg in LX First
Being based in DUS I will need an extra award ticket down to South Africa, a train ticket between DUS and FRA and a cheap ticket ZRH - DUS v/v. The idea is to combine four vacations on two tickets: South Africa, then the tour around the world, then a week in Dubai and Muscat and another trip to South Africa. This RTW has been priced with 11673 Euro all in.
Capetown - JNB - FRA - Dusseldorf in SA/LH C and LH First
Dusseldorf - Chicago in LH First
Chicago - San Francisco in UA International F
San Francisco - Hong Kong in SQ First
Hong Kong - Singapore in SQ First
Singapore - Bangkok in SQ C
Bangkok - Frankfurt in TG First
Frankfurt - Dubai in LH First
Dubai - Muscat in LX First
Muscat - Zurich in LX First
Zurich - Johannesburg in LX First
Being based in DUS I will need an extra award ticket down to South Africa, a train ticket between DUS and FRA and a cheap ticket ZRH - DUS v/v. The idea is to combine four vacations on two tickets: South Africa, then the tour around the world, then a week in Dubai and Muscat and another trip to South Africa. This RTW has been priced with 11673 Euro all in.
Nov 28, 2010, 1:02 pm
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Nov 28, 2010, 2:13 pm
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You are allowed quite a few transfers in the very same city but only one stopover. "Capetown - JNB - FRA - Dusseldorf" is just a transer, the stopover is in DUS. I tried to book the return flight to ZA via FRA to use the 380, however, this brought the itinerary over 39k miles.
Nov 29, 2010, 7:06 am
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There is no such thing as backtracking on *A RTW's.
As long as you only cross each ocean once, and 1 transit between Asia-Europe, you
can back-track within regions as much as you want.
As long as you only cross each ocean once, and 1 transit between Asia-Europe, you
can back-track within regions as much as you want.
Nov 30, 2010, 6:28 am
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kMe also several times. But hte challenge is to come as close as possible to 39k.
Is DXB regarded as Europe?
Is DXB regarded as Europe?
Nov 30, 2010, 11:35 pm
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Yes. *A RTWs work off IATA conferences. Europe, Africa and Middle East are all in one conference. Asia and Southwest Pacific are in another. The Americas are in another.
Dec 1, 2010, 11:34 pm
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Dec 2, 2010, 4:40 am
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I am currently planning a RTW for some longer vacations and was playing around with the Star Alliance tool to find a routing ex South Africa with (a) a high number of F/C flghts and (b) close to 39k miles. Well, the result was a routing with exactly 39.000 miles and a bunch of F/C flight:
Capetown - JNB - FRA - Dusseldorf in SA/LH C and LH First
Dusseldorf - Chicago in LH First
Chicago - San Francisco in UA International F
San Francisco - Hong Kong in SQ First
Hong Kong - Singapore in SQ First
Singapore - Bangkok in SQ C
Bangkok - Frankfurt in TG First
Frankfurt - Dubai in LH First
Dubai - Muscat in LX First
Muscat - Zurich in LX First
Zurich - Johannesburg in LX First
Being based in DUS I will need an extra award ticket down to South Africa, a train ticket between DUS and FRA and a cheap ticket ZRH - DUS v/v. The idea is to combine four vacations on two tickets: South Africa, then the tour around the world, then a week in Dubai and Muscat and another trip to South Africa. This RTW has been priced with 11673 Euro all in.
Capetown - JNB - FRA - Dusseldorf in SA/LH C and LH First
Dusseldorf - Chicago in LH First
Chicago - San Francisco in UA International F
San Francisco - Hong Kong in SQ First
Hong Kong - Singapore in SQ First
Singapore - Bangkok in SQ C
Bangkok - Frankfurt in TG First
Frankfurt - Dubai in LH First
Dubai - Muscat in LX First
Muscat - Zurich in LX First
Zurich - Johannesburg in LX First
Being based in DUS I will need an extra award ticket down to South Africa, a train ticket between DUS and FRA and a cheap ticket ZRH - DUS v/v. The idea is to combine four vacations on two tickets: South Africa, then the tour around the world, then a week in Dubai and Muscat and another trip to South Africa. This RTW has been priced with 11673 Euro all in.
Dec 2, 2010, 11:30 pm
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A run around (part of) the axis of evil - a perfect *A RTW in C?
Dec 5, 2010, 5:12 am
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