Originally Posted by
SDandi
What date did you put in? Qatar starts service there on December 14th.
I just tried February 2017 - still no fares. If fares are going to be newly filed for when QR starts its service, then I expect the prices will be "sensible", meaning not incredibly low
As I just mentioned, they quoted me $30,000 yesterday. Any idea why they got that number?
Remind me - what are you trying to book (meaning how many continents and what fare class, for example is it a DONE5, an AONE6)
Also what dollars was Qantas quoting USD or AUD?
Looking in ExpertFlyer, the base price of an AONE6 ex-USA is close to USD20,000. If QF quoted you that, then in AUD with the ad-ons that could come close to 30K
Do you have a certain amount of segments on the OW carrier that you are booking through?
Yes. As a general rule carriers want to have some of the long-haul segments on their flight numbers before they will ticket. In my case:
DONE5 ticketed by QF - the last 6 flights are on QF, including 2 inter-continental flights
DONE6 ticketed by AA - the middle 4 flights are on AA, including 3 inter-continental flights