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Feb 2, 2007 | 2:59 pm

#16

harryhv

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What was the question? Oh yes, *A RTW or DONE4.

And does Shakespeare have an opinion? Ah yes, from the two Gentlemen of Verona
"Madam, this service I have done four you"

Feb 5, 2007 | 6:05 pm

#17

denvr1k

Join Date: May 2006

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eternalX

The only interesting caveat to *A is the 200k RTW award on UA that gives you 35k miles to use on your RTW (and lets us start in SEA, instead of AKL/SYD, which saves me miles elsewhere). I have about 160k miles on UA after blowing 160k this summer to see the WC in MUC. I could most likely get to 400k by Sep 08, based on current travels and CC spending. With that award, I can put together a trip like this:

SEA-NRT-ICN-SIN(side trip to AKL/SYD using AS award on CX)-BKK-xSIN-FRA-JNB-GRU-IAD-SEA. = 33.5k miles

The UA RTW ticket isn't worth much of anything. It is only 5 stopovers, and you have 331 days to complete your travel after booking (not after you begin travel).

Since you'll need to find award seats on each of your flights, it's a pretty lousy deal if you're trying to book ahead for peace of mind and actually travel close to a full year. Might be worth it if you were going to travel for 6mo...

Feb 5, 2007 | 9:49 pm

#18

Rejuvenated

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eternalX

*A still has the nicest choices in that regard with SQ and others.

IMO *A has more quality top notch airlines (SQ, NZ, TG, NH, OZ) than OW (CX & BA). Though OW will gain a top notch in JL soon.

Feb 5, 2007 | 11:35 pm

#19

henry999

Join Date: Jan 2005

Location: Tampere

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Rejuvenated

IMO *A has more quality top notch airlines (SQ, NZ, TG, NH, OZ) than OW...

Do you really consider OZ a 'top notch' carrier, in the same league as the others you mention? Your experience(s) must have been better than ours. We went with them from ICN to SYD a couple of years ago, in C, and, to be honest, in the future I think I'd juggle my routing rather than fly OZ again. Even UA (trans-Pacific) was better.

cheers,

Henry