Originally Posted by
TravelJunky2024
All,
I am trying to book my first Circle Pacific ticket and have a few questions.
First, previously (in 2011) there used to be a link on the One World website showing how many miles were required to purchase the Circle Pacific fare, it has since disappeared. Does anyone know where this link could be found now or know how many miles are required to purchase the 22K, 26K, and 29K fare respectively?
Can you use the Circle Pacific fare to fly to Bora Bora via Papeete (PPT) or Fiji (NAN)?
My plan would be to fly (22,300 miles):
LAX-PPT- (Surface to NAN) -AKL - SYD - (surface to MEL)-DSP-KUL- (surface to HKT)- (surface to USM) - LAX
If Fiji and Bora Bora couldn't be included than I would do this (21347):
LAX-AKL-SYD-(surface to MEL)-DSP-KUL-(surface to HKT)-(surface to USM) -HGK-LAX
What are the rules if you add in a South America stop? You have to be going a certain direction or stop in Chile or something? Maybe I'd add in a stop in Brazil..
Any suggestions, I know I would have to pay for the 29K mile Circle Pacific fare due to 6 stops....maybe I would look to surface two other stops to cut down to the 22K fare. However at this point like I said I'm not aware of the fare difference for booking with miles.
A circle pacific is a paid fare -- you cannot use miles to book it.
You may be thinking of something along the lines of the AA oneworld award where you can obtain a series of award flights on multiple oneworld carriers by redeeming aa miles. For info and rules see this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...er-awards.html
and this page on aa.com:
http://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/pr...view.jsp#using