You're right -- pretty neat, too bad it doesn't go the other way!
1 adult Total: USD 205.95 (w/ taxes & fees)
Airline Logo Flight: Air France flight 71 on a Boeing 747 Jet
Depart: Papeete, French Polynesia (PPT)- Sat, Jan 08 9:35am
Arrive: Los Angeles, CA (LAX) - Sat, Jan 08 7:30pm
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Airline Logo Flight: Continental Airlines flight 1803 on a Boeing 757-200 Jet
Depart: Los Angeles, CA (LAX)- Sat, Jan 08 9:55pm
Arrive: Newark, NJ (EWR) - Sun, Jan 09 5:47am
Airline Logo Flight: Continental Airlines flight 17 on a Boeing 737-800 Jet
Depart: Newark, NJ (EWR)- Sun, Jan 16 5:45pm
Arrive: Los Angeles, CA (LAX) - Sun, Jan 16 8:55pm
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Airline Logo Flight: Air France flight 70 on a Boeing 747 Jet
Depart: Los Angeles, CA (LAX)- Sun, Jan 16 11:55pm
Arrive: Papeete, French Polynesia (PPT) - Mon, Jan 17 6:10am
Hello,
I was just wondering... I know it might not be totally legal, but couldnt you book two round trips from PPT and just use one half of each. What is that called, a basket or something. Sorry, I am not pro with the lingo!
This seems like too good of a deal to pass up, and I am wondering what problems I would have if I did this?
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Originally Posted by NWA_5479
Hello,
I was just wondering... I know it might not be totally legal, but couldnt you book two round trips from PPT and just use one half of each. What is that called, a basket or something.
No, because when you miss the first half of your trip, the second half will be cancelled. So, for example, if you book PPT-JFK-PPT with the intention of flying only the JFK-PPT leg, it will be cancelled when you miss the PPT-JFK leg.
Now, it's probably a good thing that I can't find a reasonable price to PPT, or I might be spending an extra 32 hours on planes in the next month or two.
Hello,
I was just wondering... I know it might not be totally legal, but couldnt you book two round trips from PPT and just use one half of each. What is that called, a basket or something. Sorry, I am not pro with the lingo!
This seems like too good of a deal to pass up, and I am wondering what problems I would have if I did this?
THANX
Your biggest problem would be getting to Tahiti. You could use the outbound half of a Tahiti - somewhere ticket to get back, but it is highly unlikely that you would be able to use the return half of another ticket to get there if you didn't fly the outbound segments.
It looks like the exchange rate they have loaded for the French Polynesian Francs (XPF) is off by a factor of 10 because many of their hotels are pricing out at about 1/10 of the normal price. For example, the Sheraton Tahiti is showing $26.86 a night.
Let's see what happens.... just reserved a PPT-LAX-CDG-MUC r/t in unrestricted C (with rebooking at no penalty without fare recalculation) for USD 1043.60.
This could nicely be integrated in my RTW itinerary...
U.S. dollars
Price Per Adult: USD 1043.60
Price Breakdown
Base Price: USD 795.00
Taxes & Fees: USD 243.60
Service Fee: USD 5.00
Total: USD 1043.60
Billed to: American Express card number xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Total amount due: $0.00 - PAID IN FULL
Ticket Numbers: 057xxxxxxxxxx
It looks like the exchange rate they have loaded for the French Polynesian Francs (XPF) is off by a factor of 10 because many of their hotels are pricing out at about 1/10 of the normal price. For example, the Sheraton Tahiti is showing $26.86 a night.
Excellent detective work. This also explains why these fares are only for travel departing Tahiti.
They are under no obligation to honor mistakes like this, but feel free to try to game them.
It looks like the exchange rate they have loaded for the French Polynesian Francs (XPF) is off by a factor of 10 because many of their hotels are pricing out at about 1/10 of the normal price. For example, the Sheraton Tahiti is showing $26.86 a night.
But when you try to purchase, you're quoted the correct amount of XPF, rather than US dollars. Try fighting that battle!
FYI for those more adventurous types, Biz/First combos to NY price out at $1300ish per person all in. Them's full fare flights with 1.5 EQMs on AA if flying AA/LA.
But when you try to purchase, you're quoted the correct amount of XPF, rather than US dollars. Try fighting that battle!
With hotels, I agree - this certainly won't work.
Airfare though is charged in USD (according to my e-ticket receipt).
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Originally Posted by rpmkwpw
FYI for those more adventurous types, Biz/First combos from NY price out at $1300ish per person all in. Them's full fare flights with 1.5 EQMs on AA if flying AA/LA.
I was trying to ticket PPT-BOB on VT. Travelocity kept spitting up on the final purchase page. When I called and they experienced the same problem on the phone, the help desk came back saying that VT was a self-validating carrier and they couldn't issue the tickets which is why the system returned a credit card error. I'd have thought they could just issue the tickets on AF ticket stock though.
If only this fare would have been available to PPT and not from... I tried to price PPT-LON on NZ in biz and I got a fare of about 1000$ but in the end they changed it to over 7000$
![[FARE GONE] Amazing fares from Tahiti to everywhere. Example: $100 PPT-NYC](/forum/iconimages/mileage-run-deals/fare-gone-amazing-fares-tahiti-everywhere-example-100-ppt-nyc_ltr.gif)
When I called and they experienced the same problem on the phone, the help desk came back saying that VT was a self-validating carrier and they couldn't issue the tickets which is why the system returned a credit card error. I'd have thought they could just issue the tickets on AF ticket stock though. 
