Originally Posted by
nj49
Thanks for this, it's very helpful. Ideally I would add a stopover in Beijing and Shanghai, I suspect that where I am going wrong is trying to add an open-jaw section in the middle (i.e. europe -> beijing then shanghai -> hkg) which is probably outside the fare rules. Perhaps I should try eu -> beijing -> shanghai -> hkg?
Any changes would be after departure and for the segments leaving Australia onwards - there's potentially a need to push dates forwards or back. If booked into O fare class, would they re-price into historic O fares, or potentially have to book into a different fare class at an increased cost?
It's this sort of fare conditions/changes/repricing where I get totally confused!
I don't think PEK-SHA is permitted, either flown or as a surface sector.
You might be better off actually buying the cheap ex-UK fare both ways, and arrange your China fights separately - potentially using avios from HKG. It's only £650 in O or £670 in O/Q, as below. This has to be booked by 16 Feb.
If you needed to change the inbound, if you could find availability in O class there'd be no fare difference as you wouldn't be changing fare, just date, so only the £150 fee payable. That's assuming you were still doing SYD-LON, not coming back from elsewhere. You could change the routing within it though, for example if there was no O available on BA via SIN for your new date but there was on CX/BA via HKG, again no fare difference since that's allowed under the current O fare.
If you couldn't find O class then the historic prices for the other classes/fares would apply.
N.B. I haven't looked at other ex-EU prices to see how they compare to the below.