Originally Posted by
ShortTermParking
New to RTW travel and currently planning my first DONE4 (milestone birthday next year) -- ex-JNB in 2016 --with the following routing:
JNB-SYD-ADL-SYD-SFO-ORD-YUL-xDFW-SFO-MAD-IST-AMM-xDOH-JNB
JNB-SYD-ADL-SYD-SFO (all QF)
SFO-ORD-YUL-xDFW-SFO (all AA)
SFO-MAD (AA)
MAD-IST (IB)
IST-AMM (RJ)
AMM-JNB (QR)
I can't get the OW tool to price the route; I get an error that tells me to call QF customer service. Am I required to book with QF because they're the first carrier, or can I just call AA's RTW the desk to get things going and book the segments?
I've read in the wiki and earlier posts that I'll need an agent in SA to actually issue the ticket. I haven't used a travel agent in years, let alone one in another country! Is there a good resource in SA for this sort of thing?
In the past the way to do it was to phone the AA RTW desk and get the itinerary set up and priced in ZAR (Sth African Rand), then phone AA's GSA in South Africa (Mindpearl) and pay over the phone. BUT there have been recent reports that Mindpearl will not accept payment using non-South African credit cards - see this thread
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...ct-anyone.html
One option is to set up a basic RTW itinerary in the online tool and ticket it. Then later pay the USD125 change fee to tweak it the way you want it. For example this itinerary does price up in the tool - JNB-SYD-ADL-SYD-SFO-MAD-DOH-JNB.