Originally Posted by
pandaperth
I am very impressed with your LHR-HNL flight segment - I searched for it on ExpertFlyer: I had no knowledge of AA109 LHR-HNL (it stops somewhere, probably West Coast where there is a change of plane from a B777 to an A320). Very handy to have that as you can then go from HNL to the mainland.
Maybe worth to mention, AA is not willing to rate xONEx bookings that contain LHR-HNL-NA, they interpret it as I have touched US mainland on AA109 LAX stop and thus hawaian backtracking restriction would apply. In addition, AA RTW desk agent warned that AA doesn't agree to touch any xONEx ticket containing LHR-HNL-NA, even for minor flight changes, without recalculating ticket with different fares. But she said that AA will still honour it as a valid ticket, they just don't make any changes in any case.
Other OW carriers and online tool interpret the hawaiian backtracking rule here differently and allows LHR-HNL-NA routing. Maybe AA just doesn't like to carry pax back and forth to HNL from mainland.
Originally Posted by
pandaperth
You can use
The Matrix to get an understanding of the taxes, fees and charges for your itinerary
Yeah, I tried to do that even before posting here, the QF tax calculation differs from that I would estimate from matrix results. And tried also playing with OWE online tool, again would assume lower taxes.
According to Matrix results, I would estimate lower than 1923 A$ taxes and fees. So the according to the difference, it would make sense, if they had calculated transfers as stopovers.
Originally Posted by
pbd456
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CX
Originally Posted by
thois
Any suggestions, if should I try to complain to QF about wrongly calculated taxes now or leave it later, after I have used 1st coupon, so it doesn't trigger fare recalculation for sure?
Any comments for above? Is it safe to ask to recalculate taxes before flying 1st segment as I don't want to loose the cheap fare in recalculation process?
I would guess that I'm safe with the fare even with tax recalculation as I already have the ticket?
Originally Posted by
JonNYC
Originally Posted by
thois
AA PLT desk confirmed that the system is not tracking bookings, only ticket numbers. Neither there is no special handling for RTW tickets.
They also confirmed, that if one make change that gets the ticket reissued, the counter would start counting again from zero because having different e-ticket number. So, it's at least really possible to dodge the 75K RDM limit by getting ticket re-issued by making changes on the way, before the cap would apply.
While that certainly makes -sense-, and sounds logical logistically, would be nice to have/find some really authoritative guidance beyond a AA res agent-- at least a senior agent, etc. As we all know, there's no AA PLT desk, per se, so no way to determine the experience/knowledge/authoritativeness of that agent's opinion.
Again, sounds very possible, but wouldn't want anyone to make plans based on same.
Forget to comment on this. I certainly agree that there is some uncertainty.
The res agent needed to call some supervisor at AAdvantage to confirm and I was about 20min in hold in the meantime. So would guess it was bit more authoritative agent than just res agent, but I cannot confirm that.
We probably will get confirmation for the issue only after someone have tried crediting miles to AAdvantage over the cap.