Originally Posted by
CdnSophia
We spent several hours with the online booking tool and kept getting the "Invalid Booking Class Code" error... does anybody know what this means and how to fix the problem?
The online tool has a number of bugs in it, which for whatever reason don't appear to be getting worked on
. Most of the bugs have work arounds, but we would need to work out what is causing the bug to appear in order to work out a work around.
Another issue we have is flight availability/calendar. Our RTW trip will be from December 2013-December 2014, but the flight calendar will only show flights up until June 2014. Is everyone else just fudging their dates at initial booking and then just changing them as the flights become available?
Yes, that is what most people in that situation do. Depending on airline, flights don't become bookable until about 330-353 days out.
We haven't gotten very far with the booking tool, but we're hoping that we can pay the NZ LONE5 fare with a Canadian credit card.
No issue with billing address if you can get the tool to work.
We're trying to avoid paying the $50/pp ticketing fee by calling the actual airline.
Which airline were you looking at?
We tried calling the AA RTW desk but the rep wasn't very nice nor helpful, esp since we don't have any AA legs, or even flying through the US.
Yep, AA tends to want at least one "over ocean" flight before they will book a RTW ticket.