*A RTW Routing Question for the Experts
 

Gang,

Time again for *A routing help..... RTW ticket Business Class

Any advice for how to do the following on *A as much as possible?

Rochester, NY to London, England

London, England to New Delhi, India

New Delhi, India to Hydrabad, India

Hydrabad, India to Boston, MA (or Providence, RI)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

William

do you want to go anywhere in between?

Not before the start of the trip... nor in between... but could do a weekend in SAN on the way back.... :)

Or is there some where else I should visit for a few days before returning to the states? :)

There's a minimum number of stops on a RTW, too. (Though it's only 3, so you're OK on that.)

How about anywhere in China, Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, or Australia?

I think this seems pretty basic (so I must be missing something) ;)

You're going to need to get between DEL and HYD on your own or connect via SIN or BKK.

Assuming you get a one way and use that as a surface sector you could fly-
roc-ord-lhr-fra-del//hyd-sin-nrt-sfo-iad-pvd

I dunno. Just an idea.

You have lots more miles available even on the lowest level (29k miles), and even with a DEL-SIN-HYD detour. If you take surface sector DEL-HYD then have enough miles left to do 2 round trips US east coast-west coast.

OK... this is where I get confused....

I assumed that when I return to the US, my trip is over.... so I am not sure how to get two US trips added and still not violate the rules... unless I am just being really dense here... and I have been told that before... :)

I think you can bounce around inside any country as long as you don't transition the same city more than 3(?) times (assuming you still have miles left over). If you play around with the RTW Calculator, you can find some very interesting itineraries...

The *A round the world doesnt have backtracking rules (other than between IATA regions), so you can continue flying around USA when you get back. You will need to:

stay within US/Canada (once you return to country of origin cannot leave it again and Canada is counted as same country as US for the purpose of this rule)

stay within your total mileage limit

make sure no more than 3 transfers at any one city

make sure no more than 1 stopover at any one city

stay within 24 total flights on the ticket

finish within 12 months

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So with lots of mileage up your sleeve you could do a couple of mileage runs on the RTW ticket. If possible book on 2-class domestic flights so you get the first class service bonus. Assuming you are crediting to UA then some short flights are also good (for the minimum mileage earning).

It's not directly over, you can have three transfers (connecting flights) from ROC on the outbound and three to BOS/PVD on the inbound, combined with three stopovers in the US (+1 in Canada if you want).

Without having checked the miles you could do something like ROC-IAD-ORD-SFO-LHR on the outbound and HYD-SIN-NRT-JFK-SFO-IAD-BOS/PVD on the inbound.