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macks
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macks
The online booking tool doesn't offer me any direct flights for AKL-SCL, but the route map seems to show a LAN flight. Does that mean there's no availability on my dates? Or is it a quirk of the tool?
LA flies daily AKL-SCL, and QF codeshares on it
I tried getting a single L seat for each day in the first week of February 2015
- the tool shows no availability on any of the seven days
- however ExpertFlyer showed availability each day
So it would appear to be a quirk of the tool (but it might in fact be a point-of-sale issue)
And finally, this question is a little more free form, but does it make sense to look into a DONE3 instead? By which I mean will the extra miles we accrue by flying business class allow us to book travel to the 4th continent that will get left off the itinerary?
3-continent itineraries are only possible if the three continents are Asia, North America and Europe
(for your itinerary, there is no way to get from Asia to Sth America without touching either Nth America or South West Pacific)
If you don't have status in your FF programme (and so earn status bonus miles) then I think the miles you do earn on a DONE3 would not be enough to cover Asia-SWP return and NthAm-SthAm return