Originally Posted by
pandaperth
To gauge the reasonableness of the charges, you could plug each segment into
itasoftware and it will list the all the charges, including YQ/YR
This method will give you the charges that each carrier collects if it is selling you a ticket for the segment. IME, AA does not collect all of these
FYI, I've been pricing up an ex-CPT DONE5 in the tool, and my total charges/fines comes to ZAR16,120. I've run my itinerary through ita and the total looks reasonable. (in the tool, I have BA as my first carrier. When I get serious I will change that to QR and get the AA RTW desk to price it up)
Mmmm...if including a BA segment barely makes a difference on your itinerary I may rethink using QR as my first flight.
Using Matrix to try and gauge YQ at least on the JNB-DOH-MAD-LHR-LAX-JFK segmetn, I see that there is about 2,080ZAR from QR and 2,430ZAR from AA. Looks like AA has gotten thirsty and lapping up those fuel fines for TATL.
I'm going to use BA on my first leg and see what the tool prices out at.