Hi guys,
thank you for your help. I just noticed that this a sticky thread, so sorry for posting in hier (I came here via google)
By the way: OKA = okinawa
Originally Posted by dekonz
Unfortunately you can not take more than one sector between a zone, in this case you are travelling Asia-SW Pacific-Asia-SW Pacific.
Your are right, but strangely the online planning allows this itinerary. I think they count singapore to Asia. Funnily enough, when I skip the whole Japan thing and fly FRA-SIN-SYD the price is basically the same despite me havein a ONE3 now instead of a ONE4 - so under these circumstances SIN counts as asia???
The correct and tax improved itinerary looks like this and was verified with milage monkey:
1: FRA-HKG: 1st of 1 (intercontinental entry to Asia without immediate transit & departure)
2: HKG-SIN: 1st of 4 (Asia)
3: SIN-HKG: 2nd of 4 (Asia)
4: HKG-OKA: 3rd of 4 (Asia)
5: OKA-NRT: 4th of 4 (Asia)
6: NRT-SYD: intercontinental
7: SYD-ZQN: 1st of 4 (Southwest Pacific)
8: ZQN-AKL: surface
9: AKL-SYD: 2nd of 4 (Southwest Pacific)
10: SYD-CNS: surface
11: CNS-SYD: 3rd of 4 (Southwest Pacific)
12: SYD-HNL: 1st of 1 (intercontinental entry to North America without immediate transit & departure)
13: HNL-DFW: 1st of 6 (North America)
14: DFW-YVR: 2nd of 6 (North America)
15: YVR-LHR: intercontinental
16: LHR-FRA: 1st of 4 (Europe)
This costs me about 3200 € (= 4.137,50 $)
Originally Posted by dekonz
I'm not sure why you would want to open jaw (surface) between Japan and New Zealand. To buy that sector is not cheap!
Suggest SIN-HKG-KIX//NRT-SYD-AKL-SYD-HNL etc. with one SYD a transit.
Be aware that each open jaw counts as a sector towards the maximum permitted of 16. It would be much cheaper to buy a sidetrip to CNS than it would to buy NRT/AKL.
Sorry, I made a mistake here - my only surface segments are Queenstown - Auckland and Sydney - Cairns. No surface between Japan and New Zealand (see above)
Originally Posted by
ernestnywang
No, you don't.
I though that then I would have to pay the ticket in US $ and I could profit from the exchange rates - euro/US $ (minus the credit card currency exchange fees).
When this doesn't work, what advantages do I have with booking at the AA desk? Apparently a lot of people try to book with AA even if AA is only a minor carry on their itinerary.
If this posting here is at the wrong place, please tell me and I will post this in the newbie-thread ;-)