Originally Posted by
Astrophsx
I could be wrong here.. but it seems he booked an award ticket and kept calling in to make changes. Maybe through trial and error he got an agent willing to type whatever route into the computer and if the system priced it out they let him add the change. There are a lot of lies and BS that he put out there. All the flights were not in first class, the ticket wasn't worth $60k, the taxes and fees didn't add up to what he said they were, he stated he booked this ticket fully online but his screenshots do not reflect this, etc...
true but i dont care about all that stuff... I just care about the routing and what's possible, just for the novel thrill of it. as most of us love flying simply for the sake of, well, flying
AS site is quirky (been experimenting doing one-ways since the article came out) and it offers some fun, connecting flight options in places where EK has 5th freedom routes. but even doing 2 stops (the search engine suggested em on its own) I dont see anything as exciting as even one AUS leg come up.
I always thought AS doesnt allow flights to AUS, so why would those flights even be loaded into their booking engine/inventory etc. unless they connect directly w EK systems when they book on behalf of their customers, rather then their own system.