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Cathay pacific airpass5/11/2023 ![]() The airlines tolerated, accommodated, and even encouraged this. This enabled me to extract the greatest advantage from the so-called MPM (maximum permitted mileage system) where if your TPM (ticketed point mileage), or actual miles flown, was less than the permissible MPM, you were allowed to stretch routes and points along the way, with certain caveats. I always purchased my tickets in Karachi or Colombo, because these were the cheapest points of sale and, more often than not, I used my coupons out of sequence. Send us your Feedback / Letter to the Editor Sometimes a few destinations in Africa were also included. Then, “brick” in my pocket, I sallied forth to a vast number of points in Asia, Europe, South America and the Pacific. The number of individual coupons in these bulk tickets varied from 50 to 70. Until fairly recently, my insatiable appetite for intercontinental travel involved regular visits to KLM to purchase complicated full-fare round-the-world tickets that would stymie the sharpest accountant or travel clerk. To begin with, do you know how to spell Ouagadougou? Vicarious thrills have given way to vacations of a lifetime, but working out a round-the-world holiday fare is still a daunting task, equally so for the Indiana Joneses as for Wall Street Gordon Gekkos. Today the world has shrunk and information now travels on optic fibres at the speed of light. SINCE we were kids in school we’ve been spinning toy globes and dreaming of setting off like Indiana Jones, rawhide whip in hand, to explore mystic places and virginal dark continents, untarnished by mind-numbing math theorems and grumpy gerunds. SEE ALSO Trans-Siberian Railway | Business class seats | Economy class survey | Asian cruises | Frequent flyer programs | Fake travel reviews ![]() Stuff-To-Go/ Gadgets & Digital Camera Reviews.
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