Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
Or if you can reverse the order of your trip, start with CMB-AMM, which would be ticketed by AA since AA does RJ's ticketing with the online tool. You might plug it in to the machine and see what impact it has on the price.
I need to do either Asia or North America first due to needing to be in BWI and MCO on set dates and I can't afford to lose a day going west across the date line because of when I need to be back in MEL. I'm thinking the extra taxes from the extra sectors in Europe would all but wipe out the savings on YQ from ticketing with AA.
edit: Just plugged it in. Savings of going west through AMM amount to about 100USD.
DFW-ANC is seasonal; if the timing is off and you're looking for more mileage DFW-SJU might be more to your liking.
It's for mid July-mid August. DFW-ANC is in the schedule then.
Though it might need to be SEA. When I put an ANC turn around, the return didn’t get to DFW in time to connect to CDG.
Checking the QF earning tables, DFW-SJU would get me more points then DFW-SEA, but the same status credits.
When I put in DFW-SEA-DFW the taxes increased. Comparing it to the taxes listed without it, the only difference was ‘US International Transportation Tax – Departure’ which went from 1,849LKR without SEA to 3,698LKR with. Any ideas why that might have happened?
Note a couple of your sectors, JFK-BWI-ORD, are in Y-only equipment.
I am aware. I got the same flights on an LONE4 in 2008. Only way around it that I can see at the moment would be to do JFK-BWI-JFK as an extra land trip, then fly JFK-ORD on AA577.