Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
In numerous re-issues and re-routes (on tickets issued by BA and AA) I have yet to have the taxes and fees decrease on re-issue.
You can get an idea of fees by entering the segment and carrier into ITA and just ignore the base fare. For example, QR, SIN-xDOH-JNB:
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Tnx! It's like you were reading my mind. I used ITA to look up that exact segment pair and one reason I asked if AA charges YQ for QR flights is because that would be a good candidate for the bulk of the fees.
I also just checked by pulling those two segments from the test itin I have on the oneworld tool (replacing SYD-SIN-xDOG-JNB with SYD-JNB) and the price dropped by $500. But given I assume the tool is using BA as the ticketing airline all that confirms is that there's plenty of YQ on the QR flight for _if_ AA charges it.
Still, that's my number 1 target so I'll be calling the RTW desk shortly to see if that improves things.