Originally Posted by
CdnSophia
Hello Flyertalk!
After months of planning our LONE5 itinerary we're finally ready to purchase our ticket!
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?
I've played with the online tool quite a bit, and don't recall ever seeing this error. Also there is no mention of it in the
online-tool-bugs-thread
I plugged your itinerary into the tool and am getting the same error message. It comes up after clicking the 'Proceed' button:
The following error(s) occured
Invalid booking class code (10075)
Can anyone help with this?
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. People choose dummy dates for the flights towards the end of itinerary and later change them to the dates they actually want when those dates are able to be chosen.
(The airline booking systems only allow booking 330-355 days in advance whereas the RTW ticket rule states the last flight can be up to one year afer the first flight)
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. We're trying to avoid paying the $50/pp ticketing fee by calling the actual airline. 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.
If you are IN Canada and try to purchase this ticket by calling an airline (or even by using a local travel agent) then the rules state you must pay the higher of the Canadian and NZ prices.
So you really want to use the tool. The ex-NZ LONE5 price is NZD4499 (~CAD3730) whereas the ex-Canada price is CAD 6099
FYI the ticket rules are here -
http://www.oneworld.com/documents/10...Explorer+Rules
Edited to add: I see Himeno posted answers while I was busy typing