Originally Posted by
saskew
Hi,
I am a newbie looking at OneWorld Explorer and Global Explorer. We are BA Exec club members with about 100,000 miles to play with, but have previously only earned/redeemed on LHR-YYC flights so a Round-the-World ticket is a whole new ball game I would be grateful of any advice about!
Our potential routing is as follows: LHR-YYC; surface sector; YVR-LAX-NAN; NAN-HKG-DXB; DXB-LHR.
My questions are:
1) On the OneWorld Network map, Nadi/Fiji is shown with a blue dot as a city, with Codeshare flights from LAX and HKG. But when I try to plug this into the OneWorld Itinerary Planner to get a price, it doesn’t bring up NAN/Nadi/Fiji when I search, nor does it have a blue dot on the map. Is our above routing possible?
2) Is this routing more suited to OneWorld Explorer or Global Explorer?
3) I have read it is possible to start a RTW ticket in a country different from that we reside. Therefore is it possible to: buy/redeem single LHR-YYC flight. Travel YYC-YVR surface sector. Commence RTW ticket from YVR, right through to LHR at end of planned route. Then within 12 months of departing YVR, use RTW ticket to travel LHR-YYC on a separate trip I will then buy/redeem a YYV-LHR ticket back home.
I appreciate there are a number of questions there, thanks in advance for any advice!
1) The Oneworld itinerary planner is for planning Oneworld Explorer tickets. On the Oneworld Explorer ticket you would not be allowed to fly non-Oneworld airlines, except for Jetstar operated Qantas marketed flights (NAN-SYD is one option).
The Global Explorer ticket, on the other hand, allows flying on some non-Oneworld airlines. Your YVR-LAX flight would be on Alaska Airlines and your LAX-NAN-HKG flights on Air Pacific. This seems to be your best option.
2) Global Explorer, as explained above.
3) This is certainly possible, but I don't recommend it. The LGLOB29 (the Global Explorer at your mileage level in Economy) costs USD5451 for travel beginning in Canada versus USD3506 for travel beginning in Great Britain.
One thing to note, QX (Horizon Air, a subsidiary of AS) offers service YYC-SEA. If you have any interest in visiting Seattle (we really have a lovely city
) you could fly here and buy a train ticket to YVR (quite inexpensive and comfortable). If you stopped over in both Seattle and Vancouver you
might be able to fly QX YYC-SEA-YVR and then AS YVR-LAX. I'm not certain how the cabotage restrictions affect tickets like this with multiple stopovers. I can guarantee that you would not be allowed to simply fly YYC-SEA-YVR as a connection.