Some routing advice on a DONE4 please.
Nov 30, 2015, 2:23 pm
#1
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Some routing advice on a DONE4 please.
Hi All,
I am going to be in Mauritius in December, following that I am visiting the family in South Africa. I thought I should look into starting a DONE4 in MRU but when I saw the base fare in USD being 50% more than in South Africa I thought NO WAY. However, it then struck me.
Can I buy my ticket in SA and start with a 'surface sector'. As in JNB-MRU (surface sector) and make my first flight BA MRU-JNB?
My routing would then be:
JNB-MRU(surface sector)-JNB-LHR-JFK-etc.
Can I do that?
I am going to be in Mauritius in December, following that I am visiting the family in South Africa. I thought I should look into starting a DONE4 in MRU but when I saw the base fare in USD being 50% more than in South Africa I thought NO WAY. However, it then struck me.
Can I buy my ticket in SA and start with a 'surface sector'. As in JNB-MRU (surface sector) and make my first flight BA MRU-JNB?
My routing would then be:
JNB-MRU(surface sector)-JNB-LHR-JFK-etc.
Can I do that?
Nov 30, 2015, 4:48 pm
#2
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Hi All,
I am going to be in Mauritius in December, following that I am visiting the family in South Africa. I thought I should look into starting a DONE4 in MRU but when I saw the base fare in USD being 50% more than in South Africa I thought NO WAY. However, it then struck me.
Can I buy my ticket in SA and start with a 'surface sector'. As in JNB-MRU (surface sector) and make my first flight BA MRU-JNB?
My routing would then be:
JNB-MRU(surface sector)-JNB-LHR-JFK-etc.
Can I do that?
I am going to be in Mauritius in December, following that I am visiting the family in South Africa. I thought I should look into starting a DONE4 in MRU but when I saw the base fare in USD being 50% more than in South Africa I thought NO WAY. However, it then struck me.
Can I buy my ticket in SA and start with a 'surface sector'. As in JNB-MRU (surface sector) and make my first flight BA MRU-JNB?
My routing would then be:
JNB-MRU(surface sector)-JNB-LHR-JFK-etc.
Can I do that?
Is there something unique that I am missing which makes this trade off attractive?
Nov 30, 2015, 5:00 pm
#3
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Hi All,
I am going to be in Mauritius in December, following that I am visiting the family in South Africa. I thought I should look into starting a DONE4 in MRU but when I saw the base fare in USD being 50% more than in South Africa I thought NO WAY. However, it then struck me.
Can I buy my ticket in SA and start with a 'surface sector'. As in JNB-MRU (surface sector) and make my first flight BA MRU-JNB?
My routing would then be:
JNB-MRU(surface sector)-JNB-LHR-JFK-etc.
Can I do that?
I am going to be in Mauritius in December, following that I am visiting the family in South Africa. I thought I should look into starting a DONE4 in MRU but when I saw the base fare in USD being 50% more than in South Africa I thought NO WAY. However, it then struck me.
Can I buy my ticket in SA and start with a 'surface sector'. As in JNB-MRU (surface sector) and make my first flight BA MRU-JNB?
My routing would then be:
JNB-MRU(surface sector)-JNB-LHR-JFK-etc.
Can I do that?
Originally Posted by OWE Rules
(f) Only one international departure and one international arrival from/to the country of origin permitted
One possible workaround would be to originate in Namibia, where prices are pretty similar to SA, for something like WDH-xJNB-MRU-JNB-LHR...
Nov 30, 2015, 8:37 pm
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As 747-444 wrote
Can I buy my ticket in SA and start with a 'surface sector'. As in JNB-MRU (surface sector) and make my first flight BA MRU-JNB?
JNB//MRU-JNB-LHR-...
Because of JNB//MRU isn't a flight sector, it doesn't DEPART.
So it may sutisfies one international depature from the country of origin.
If XXX//YYY can be treated as a flight segment,
can we do
NRT//HKG-JFK-LHR-HKG-NRT with ex-JPN fare ?
Whole positioning flight problem could be solved
ROUTING rule says
Intermediate surface sector are permitted at the passenger's expense
Dec 1, 2015, 12:11 pm
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Why don't you plug it into the online tool and see what happens? Not that I have much faith in the tool, but at least it's a data point.
Dec 1, 2015, 12:37 pm
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The OP asked a similar question regarding starting a DONEWC in WDH and doing a surface segment to MRU.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...mauritius.html
Nothing different regarding a DONEx. As I noted at that time, I have not seen a report of anyone successfully ticketing an oneworld rtw product in one country and then using an initial surface segment to actually begin flying from another (more expensive) country.
OP what did you find out last year? Did you ever get anyone to ticket your DONECW3 with an initial surface segment?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...mauritius.html
Nothing different regarding a DONEx. As I noted at that time, I have not seen a report of anyone successfully ticketing an oneworld rtw product in one country and then using an initial surface segment to actually begin flying from another (more expensive) country.
OP what did you find out last year? Did you ever get anyone to ticket your DONECW3 with an initial surface segment?
Dec 1, 2015, 12:45 pm
#8
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The OP asked a similar question regarding starting a DONEWC in WDH and doing a surface segment to MRU.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...mauritius.html
Nothing different regarding a DONEx. As I noted at that time, I have not seen a report of anyone successfully ticketing an oneworld rtw product in one country and then using an initial surface segment to actually begin flying from another (more expensive) country.
OP what did you find out last year? Did you ever get anyone to ticket your DONECW3 with an initial surface segment?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...mauritius.html
Nothing different regarding a DONEx. As I noted at that time, I have not seen a report of anyone successfully ticketing an oneworld rtw product in one country and then using an initial surface segment to actually begin flying from another (more expensive) country.
OP what did you find out last year? Did you ever get anyone to ticket your DONECW3 with an initial surface segment?
I tried the online booking feature and it won't let me start with a surface sector.
Time to call QF.
Dec 2, 2015, 12:23 am
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Considering how inexpensive the RTW from SA is you could just buy a OW from MRU to JNB and then start the RTW from there.
Or try to change your first ticket from MRU to WDH.