Cheap Rtw Airfares

What are the cheap air fares for the circumnavigation of the globe?

An experienced readership who had been reading about "cheap circumnavigations" asked me how to find a set of cheap one-way RTWs. Readers noticed on each of the routes that one-way streets almost as expensive as roundabouts. Readers weren't interested in any package - just the fares, please.

Luckily, this readership has several choices. A number of tour operators specialise in the creation of individual RTW routes. Aeronautical Brokers International (www.airbrokers.com, 800-883-3273), Airtreks (www.airtreks.com, 877-247-8735), Join Us Travel (www.joinustravel.com, 888-741-7300) et World Travelers' Club (www.around-the-world.com, 800-693-0411) ; tous avec Sitz à San Francisco. RTW routes are created to order, sector by sector, by compiling a range of discount ticket packages, some of which they buy off-shore.

Minimum RTW route pricing starts at around $1,500, but the lowest ones generally have few stoppages. Most of these low-cost choices also leave the United States from the West Coast and head back to the East Coast or the other way around, so you can get your own ticket between your hometown and these gateway cities.

Fuller routes, up to and personal travel in the same US city, begin just over $2,000, and even these can have some brief loopholes. $2,500 will buy you a really beautiful route, even in Africa or South America. Note, however, that these ticket types are generally quite inflexible: restricted timings, dramatic cancellations or changes in punishments, and so on.

For a more agile ticketing experience, all three major multi-national airlines are selling RTW passes at a single cost that offers many travel possibilities within sensible overall boundaries. As a rule, they allow up to 15 stations in the course of a year - usually no more than one or two stations in a town.

Ticket numbers are either calculated according to the number of miles or the number of continences you are visiting; mileage-based ticket numbers are more variable.