Originally Posted by
IHEARTNY1
Just wondering can you ask the RTW desk to call up tarriff (in DUB or whereever they are based) and they can then confirm the pricing and noted in the PNR. That way I don't even need MindPearl to queue it across to tarriff. All I need them to do is to take my CR card details and process it and issue to tix?
Yes they can. I recently set up a LCIR26 through the RTW desk for an itinerary originating in Tokyo, so I had to get it ticketed through the AA NRT office. After calling them a number of times they said they still didn't have the fare sheet yet.
So I called the RTW desk and told them that NRT couldn't ticket it and my booking was only held to the following Sunday. The probably is that the NRT office isn't open on week-ends, so I pushed them to try and get something done. After being put on hold for a while, they said they had contacted the DUB office and that the fare sheet would be ready in 1-2 hours.
So it appears that the RTW desk can speed up the process... at least they could in my case.
But I wonder why it takes so long for AA to calcualate the taxes. I ticketed a LONE4 through a travel agent in Sydney who originally wanted to ticketed it on QF paper. But I told him to ticket it through AA. I gave him my credit card details around 1pm and just told him to charge whatever AA told him it would cost... and by 5pm my e-ticket had be issued.
In contrast my LCIR26 through the RTW desk took nearly 2 days to price and probably would have been longer if I had not pushed them to get it priced quicker.