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Here's the challenge. Piece together the lowest total fare for a Round The World flight that lands at least once on every continent -- NA, SA, Eur,,Asia, Africa, Aus -- any order. Any time of year, but fare currently published.
If you don't want to search the fares, suggest an itinerary, let someone look ythem up.
We just buy an inexpensive one-way and go from there.... Finding an inexpensive method for next stop when we finally feel like leaving an area.
I'm not into 'games'. Today's fare is not tomorrow's fare. Schedules and strict plans based on deals... can ruin a trip very quickly.
Play on... I'm traveling.
How do you "just find" an inexpensive one-way, if you have to fly at "today's fare"? How are you allowed on all these one-way flights without return or onward tickets?"
Second, decide whether you're going to fly east to west, or west to east. The former is more expensive, the latter tougher on jet lag. Depends on how much time you have.
Third, crossing the equator and the southern oceans tends to be expensive, do as little as possible.
Fourth, I'd start with the cheapest round trip to South America I could find. Houston-Caracas-Miami or something like that.
Fifth, These days you can cross both the Atlantic and Pacific for $300 one way.
Some of the aggregators, I think Kayak is one, lists fares on ow-cost airlines, but refers you to the airline for details. I got a great Manila-Qatar, about $125 that way.
As first trial, I'd try LA / Bangkok / Perth / Colombo / Cairo / Madrid / Miami / Caracas / LA/ However, it might be cheaper to stay on the main route, and take side RTs to Caracas and Darwin. Maybe end points at Miami to avoid
LA..
My last RTW was Houstom / Manila / Dubai / Houston, under $1,000
I get the Australia add-on seasonally, eg July, fro only $198, which reduces th total to $1,890, but it might not be possible to got these lowest segments hooked up into a single trip
Those Kiwi flights sound tantalizing, but are very limited, and I don't think you could hook them all together that cheaply.
I now have
104 Miami to Medellin
866 to Singapore
198 to Darwin and back
404 Singapore to Cairo
459 to Munich and Miami
I now have Medellin-Singapor 800, so that's 904 Mia-Sin. Sin-Mia via Afr and Eur is 853, so 1753 RTW from Sin, with just Aus left, which I have for 198, total 1,951. That includes crossing USA via SA.
The best I'm finding so far are on rome2rio.com . R2R is pretty easy, once yoy learn how to bypass their default auto-fills an go back to new search.
R2R lists Darwin at 310 and Perth 190. So they may have seasonal criteria that disallow a July-'23 Darwin, on Cheapo at 198. Using SIN-PER, I'm at 1,943, Miami to Miami, all six continents..
Last edited by arr430; 11-13-2022 at 07:26 PM..
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