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Jan 3, 2009 | 1:31 pm

#17

BDA shorts

Join Date: Nov 2007

Location: Itinerant

Programs: DL FO, AA PLT, BD *G

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Quote:

Originally Posted by number_6

Either of these would work. Or you can open date AA HNL-SYD, which might be the cleanest solution. Once you are ticketed it is often easy to get L inventory released (need approval by yield management but they make a lot on that over-water sector, maybe more than the sold HNL-SYD discounted fares even in L).

Thanks for the suggestion! I couldn't waitlist the AA HNL-SYD so I open-dated it like you said (specifying AA for the open segment) and requeued. Took AA 22 minutes to price it out--here's what I got:

Code:

                 PRICE QUOTE RECORD - DETAILS                   
                                                                
FARE NOT GUARANTEED UNTIL TICKETED                              
                                                                
PQ 1   SQSD‡TQSD                                                
                                                                
       BASE FARE     EQUIV AMT        TAXES          TOTAL      
     GBP1551.93      USD2248.00      577.50XT     USD2825.50ADT 
    XT      10.80ZP      40.20US       5.50YC       7.00XY      
             5.00XA      10.00AY      57.90GB      15.60UB      
            35.00BM       4.30BL       4.00EN      32.20AU      
             2.40QR       2.50QR      10.80WG       2.10WG      
            43.00WY       9.20IA      15.60KK      22.50SW      
             8.20AE      14.10JO       4.90KJ      21.70IL      
           175.00YQ      18.00XF                                
ADT-01  LONE4                                                   
 LON BA BDA AA X/NYC AA RDU AA X/DFW AA HNL AA SYD //BNE QF     
AKL QF MEL QF PER QF TYO CX X/HKG CX DXB Q2.93 RJ X/AMM RJ T    
LV BA LON1549.00LONE4 GBP1551.93END ZPJFKRDUDFW XFJFK4.5RDU4‡   
.5DFW4.5HNL4.5                                                 ‡
*VALID ON AA/AY/BA/CX/EG/IB/JC/JL/JO/LA/LP/MA/NU/QF/RJ/XL/4M

A few observations:
1) $175 in fuel surcharges. I think I can live with that--or would they be easy to get rid of? Then there's that $2.93 Q charge... I'm willing to let them have that.

2) Base fare is the ex-LON fare that I was expecting. In the remarks they wrote "TICKETING RESTRICTIONS APPLY." I wonder if that means what I think it does (that I'd need to get this ticketed in London).
3) Taxes are a fair bit lower than I was expecting. Going through the tax breakdown, Australia's definitely the worst offender.

Observations are welcome... otherwise I'll call up AA's UK office tomorrow and see if they can ticket for me.

Last edited by BDA shorts; Jan 3, 2009 at 1:52 pm

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