Originally Posted by
carsnoceans
I am not sure how you did a dummy booking for
- LAX-LHR in CW
- LHR-DEL in WT+
- DEL-LHR in CW
- LHR-LAX in WT+
Using the multi-city page in EF:-
lax
ba /f bc=i
lhr
lhr
ba /f bc=t
del
del
ba /f bc=i
lhr
lhr
ba /f bc=t
lax
You need to pick the correct dates for each sector to make sure that there's less than 24 hours in London each time the trip passes through. And you need to make sure there's a long enough stay at DEL to satisfy any minimum stay requirements (a full week is usually good for this when doing dummy bookings).
And you're probably better off unticking the relevant box so as to suppress the availability check.
Originally Posted by
carsnoceans
You are correct about $850 on WT+ and $1410 on CW. But paying that full difference when I am only upgrading 2/4 segments sounds like a ripoff. But how do I tell that to the agents??
Unfortunately,
Anonba's post at the end of that other thread makes it sound as if the system that the agents use is not very transparent and perhaps not very clever. With the tools that we have, it's possible for us to work out the correct YQ amount (eg above), and often faster than the phone agents can do it.
The only consolation that I can offer is that if that's the problem that underlies this, then by paying the extra $560 you will have paid the YQ rate for the whole of your itinerary in CW. If you later become able to UuA the other two sectors, I can't see how the agents' system will quote a YQ figure higher than $1,410.00 (for all sectors in CW) - so you may not have to pay any more then.
But as things stand, I suspect that you (like the OP of the other thread) may be being overcharged.