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Around-the-World
Airline Tickets
by
Judy Wolf
Thinking about planning your own around-the-world adventure? Around-the-world (ATW or RTW) airline tickets make a great backbone for your trip. Like many people, you may be walking around with the idea that ATW tickets are heavy on restrictions and complicated to arrange and understand. Not so anymore!
The airlines must have gotten sick of the red tape themselves, because today's ATW tickets are flexible, straightforward alternatives well worth considering. The two major airline alliances I ran across during my globe-trotting adventures were...
oneworld
alliance
British Airways, American Airlines, Qantas, Lan Chile, Cathay Pacific
and a host of other partners airlines team up to offer 570 destinations
in 134 countries. Their oneworld Explorer ticket splits the world up into
zones, with a certain number of stops and segments within each zone included
in the basic ticket price (no mileage restrictions). You can add more
stops and segments for a surcharge. Or you can choose to explore a single
continent with their oneworld Visit Passes.
Star
Alliance
Air Canada, United, Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa, Air New Zealand
and a large network of partner airlines offer an around-the-world ticket
at three fare levels, allowing you to travel up to 29,000, 34,000 or 39,000
flying miles with as few as three, or as many as 15 stopovers in different
cities (within the permitted mileage).
Both alliances allow for travel ranging from 10 days to 12 months. While you're required to set your itinerary in terms of destinations (that's how they know how much to charge you), both alliances let you decide or change travel dates freely as you go. Which is great for taking advantage of those wonderful, unexpected opportunities!
TIP: If you want to do some comparison shopping, www.statravel.com and www.airtrek.com are worth a visit.
For more travel resources, visit the constantly expanding resource section of my web site. You can also read trip reports from my recent around-the-world journey.
Copyright (c) 2002 Judy Wolf
About
the Author:
Judy Wolf (www.judywolf.com)
is a world traveler, freelance writer, speaker, and whitewater kayak instructor.
She's taken numerous, extended solo journeys around the world, traveling
by foot, bus, jeep, camel, truck, boat, train, plane, elephant, and bicycle
to over 30 countries on five continents. She currently lives in upstate
New York with her husband and border collie, where she's working on a
book-length travel narrative about her most recent adventures…that is,
when she's not plunging off waterfalls or entertaining the dog.
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