Originally Posted by
AspiringWorldTraveler
Trying to calculate - roughly - what is the true price of my ticket. Google Flights (separate tickets) is coming up with $22,037, but when plugging the same itinerary into
Matrix, I come up with $31,500. Why the discrepancy? What is the
cheapest this exact itinerary can be booked for?
2 notes:
- I would never, EVER pay the cash rate for this flight, looking to put the actual paid price on these F/J tickets, even though I would fly this happily in Y (well, maybe Y+), so not looking for a philosophical, "intrinsic value" discussion/debate
- These awards were booked separately, not sure how that plays into calculation.
> JFK-HKG (via NRT) - AA F award
> HKG-DPS (via SIN) - SQ F award with paid stopover
> DPS-JFK (via HKG) - AA J award
Firstly you are booking one-ways which are usually more expensive, plus your middle flights are on a different alliance and you are trying to put them in the same ticket, so you are looking at unrestricted fares. So that might be why Google flights has it at $22K and ITA has it at $31K.
You can do the oneworld flights in F for $19K. NRT-HKG is on the 12th but I can't be bothered to try getting it on the 11th.
http://i.imgur.com/SM0eoqG.png However, it's an A fare rather than F so may come with different restrictions to your award ticket.
I get that you want to know how much it would cost to pay for F, but if you were really going to pay for F, you would still look for the cheapest deal, and you can do approximately the same thing in F on Asiana for $14000. You'd have to spend a day in Seoul rather than Tokyo and skip the Hong Kong overnight on 22 Jan. If you were paying cash, would you really pay $5000 (or 30%) extra to fly JL and CX and go to Tokyo?
HKG-DPS is roughly $3000 on SQ or others whether you stop in SIN or not, which adds up to the $22K you got.