Originally Posted by
babs
Hi
Second Done4, seems I am getting hooked on them I was looking at the following
jnb-mru-lhr-cai-lhr-hel-lhr-sfo-ord-lax-dfw-yvr-jfk-hkg-dps-hkg-jnb
Now firstly when I priced this itn the taxes came to around $2000 AUD does this seem right, would AA ticket an itn like this from south africa to try to lower the taxes.
Now can I use any of the double entries to get more use out of africa as really i am only using one segment. LAX not really necessary to go to just wanted to use an extra segment. In NA want to keep SFO,ORD YVR,JFK in Asia only really want to get to a wedding in DPS. CAI in europe is the only must.
If anyone could had some interesting additions or perhaps I missed something and can be bothered
I guess main issue for me is seat quality and services ie fully flat.
kind regards
You should look at the fare construction provided by the online booking tool to see what portion of the "taxes" is actually fuel surcharges (typically "YQ" on the table.) Because your first segment (JNB-MRU) is operated by BA (okay, Comair but no matter) the tool will default to BA as the issuing airline, thereby invoking BA fuel surcharges for the whole itinerary.
AA in CPT
might be willing to issue the ticket, but in my experience they're reluctant to do so unless one over-water segment carries an AA code. LHR-SFO is BA, so they might play ball if you book JFK-HKG with an AA code on the CX flight, but that might be stretching it. Are you booking miles to QF, AA, BA...?
You might check pricing - the Rand has strengthened greatly in the past few months. If SA is not mandatory, you might find it's cheaper to start a DONE3 in Asia someplace.