Originally Posted by
jacalata
I just priced out an LONEX starting in MEL for USD$4635, 11 segments. I did this at rtw.oneworld.com. Then I happened to go to qantas.com and click through their rtw link to the same page, which re-opened my existing itinerary and priced it $1500 higher on the base fare: at this point, the price in my already opened tab updated also $1500 higher! I opened a different browser and re-priced it going directly to the tool, and got the original fare (I went through to the cc details page). What on earth is going on there, does this just get added on in some kind of lousy qantas 'fees'?
When you priced it out on rtw.oneworld.com which airline did you have for your first flight?
That airline would be your ticketing carrier and so it gets to choose which surcharges (for the other airlines in the itinerary) it collects off you and which it doesn't.
If Qantas is the first carrier, then it gets to choose - and it likes to collect lots of surcharges. I once did a mini-investigation of this - see this post
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/13347190-post20.html (warning: figures will no longer be valid)
When you priced it through Qantas.com did you change the first carrier to be Qantas (or was it already Qantas)? It might be that setting the ticket up through qantas.com results in QF doing the ticketing even if it is not the first carrier. Will be interesting to investigate this...