Originally Posted by
Misnerfamily
I like the idea of BUD-HEL-HKG-DPS; however, it doesn't seem possible with the online Oneworld tool. I would have to make HEL a stopover in order for it to pick up Finnair. I need to get right out of Europe so we can use our two stopovers on the end of our trip next summer.
Any advice? Can the AA rtw desk force it to use Finnair via HEL?
Looking on EF, if you ask it for BUD-HKG, via HEL on AY, there is no L inventory (not L0, but no L inventory class). However, if you ask it for BUD-HEL and HEL-HKG separately, there is L inventory. I don't know why it does that. In the online tool, can you not simply pick the two flights separately? There are two flights BUD-HEL (11.40am/3.00pm and 7.15pm/10.35 pm); the later flight connects to the 11.40 pm flight to HKG). Does the earlier flight result in a stopover (even though it's a less-than-24-hours connection)? Setting up a dummy itinerary in the online tool, it did not appear to have a problem selecting the flights separately. I also asked it for BUD-HKG and it gave me the AY flights as a pair (and correctly identified it as using two segments); it confirmed the inventory was available (though I may not have been using your dates). Obviously, YMMV.