Originally Posted by danger

Progress. The agents have priced it manually but they are unable to find D or L availability on DOH-CMN-DOH so they have dropped those two sectors out of the itinerary completely. ExpertFlyer shows D9 and L9 so I've no idea what QF is on about. (QF and QR are far from friends so maybe QR is limiting availability to QF.)

The upside is it has priced at what it should: AUD4546.20. In fact, it's AUD300 cheaper than what AA quoted which seems totally bizarre.

The agent also now seems to accept that my routing is valid and has accepted that if QR opens up availability (which, in my opinion, will be as simple as phoning AA to make the change once it's ticketed), then USD125 will be the charge and Bob's your uncle (ie. all is good).

Qantas is holding the fare for me for 24 hours. I confirmed, twice, that the fare was locked in. Yes, I know. I should not procrastinate. My issue is Qantas won't charge me in USD which is where my funds are at the moment. But I guess I can't have everything.



Haha. That equation would be almost as complex to work out as the fare rules itself.