Route notes
Why this routing works
This six-week round-the-world itinerary starts and ends in San Francisco and moves steadily westward: Washington DC, New York City, Paris, Cairo, Dubai, New Delhi, Singapore, Sydney, then back to San Francisco. The sequence keeps the trip directional rather than backtracking, which is the core advantage of building a multi-stop ticket instead of pricing each long-haul separately.
Using two US stops at the front end allows domestic positioning before the transatlantic segment to Paris. From there, the routing steps across adjacent long-haul regions—Europe to North Africa, then the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia—before the final transpacific return. That kind of progression is useful when you want multiple major stops without breaking the overall flow of the ticket.
Because this is an economy RTW route with nine flight segments over six weeks, timing matters as much as city order. A June departure sits within the stated April-to-June season, and the route mixes shorter regional links with longer intercontinental flights, so it works best when stop timing is planned around connection logic rather than trying to force extra reversals or side trips.
At a sold price range of USD 1,987 to 3,031 in economy, this itinerary shows how a complex transatlantic-plus-transpacific circuit can still be structured as one coherent round-the-world ticket. The main value in a route like this is not destination coverage alone, but keeping a clear westbound path from North America through Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia before closing the loop in California.