Originally Posted by
JohnAx
FWIW I did not book a 16-segment AONE4 with Capetown, rather a simple 4-segment trip that got me on codeshares to the U.S. (presumably the only way to get AA codeshares from JNB) and back around. I didn't mind the $125 change fee I was going to have to pay to flesh out the trip because among other things I was worried about a possible price increase so I wanted to book 'NOW!' and didn't really know all the segments I wanted.
(Also serendipitously grandfathered myself on the two-extra-segments-per-continent benefit that disappeared on 1 July. )
Indeed. In fact, in the last week the Oneworld Explorer has stopped quoting me a base fare of 58,940 ZAR for most of my JNB-originating flights involving South America. It's now quoting
117,880 ZAR for everything except my oldest saved itinerary (and USD11,361 for AA-codeshares). That's just base fare.
So hopefully that's a bug and not a sign of another price increase.