Originally Posted by
Calchas
No, they must be booked at the same time as part of the same itinerary as the RTW journey.
A "side trip" is a specific way of combining two fares together on the same ticket, when the passenger interrupts the main fare at an intermediate point to go on a second trip, before returning to the intermediate point and resuming the main fare. The total 16 sector limit will still apply to the total journey. The cost calculation is the main fare + the side trip fare.
See
http://dls3.wspan.com/LearningCenter...t.htm#sidetrip for the industry meaning of a "side trip".
You cannot "add" two existing tickets together in the manner you suggest.
Thank you for the explanations. Obviously, I misunderstood the concept.
Now, here his my next problem. As I explained in another thread, Mindpearl in CPT refuses to ticket my itinerary because I do not have a SA CC and they won' t budge. So I tweaked the itinerary a little bit to make it more BA friendly and plan to proceed with BA for the ticketing. However, I have been unable to find a number for a BA RTW desk. Does it exist at all? The problem is I cannot use the online tool to generate a record locator as several segments do not appear on it. So I am afraid that if I call the general BA number in JNB to build the itinerary, it is not going to go very smoothly. How would you proceed?