Originally Posted by
QF009
BDA Shorts is hooked up to Sabre and has DIYed the booking, rendering it an agency booking. The tariffs desks won't rate agency bookings if they don't contain at least one AA overwater segment. They'd do such bookings only for pax who have dealt directly with AA.
Ahh... that'll do it. That, combined with having to ticket in London (I'd imagine it's a pain to transfer the PNR over to them, and transferring would defeat the whole point of DIYing this anyway) means I'll probably have to do it the old-fashioned way, through the phone.
I could add in an AA over-the-water piece but that would turn my LON-BDA direct flight into LON-JFK-BDA, which is much less convenient.
If anyone is interested, my itinerary is:
BA LGW-BDA
AA BDA-JFK
AA JFK-RDU
AA RDU-DFW
QF DFW-HNL (operated by AA)
QF HNL-SYD
surface sector
QF BNE-AKL
QF AKL-MEL
QF MEL-PER
QF PER-NRT
CX NRT-HKG
CX HKG-DXB
RJ DXB-AMM
RJ AMM-TLV
BA TLV-LHR