Originally Posted by
Jasper2009
Unfortunately, AE no longer uses published routings to validate bookings.
Since your routing is over AE's internal MPM, your itinerary would unfortunately not be bookable.
In fact, most routings between TPE and YYZ via Europe will be invalid. However, you can fix that by adding a stopover in SIN (or elsewhere in South East Asia) and eliminating one stop in Europe.
E.g. YYZ-TPEx-SINx-IST-VIEx-ORD-YYZ would be valid.
Thanks for the help. I ended up calling in to try it anyway and as expected the computer wouldn't validate it. The agent and I tried a few things and we ended up dropping the stopover in VIE (which sucks, but gives us more time in Croatia). We're travelling with a 3 year old and a 5 month old, so we want to try and stay in one place for a week at a time (which is much less aggressive than our first mini-rtw that we did with our first son at 5 months - Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and Japan). Here's the final itinerary:
YYZ-TPE (BR J 77W) Stop
TPE-IST-ZAG (TK J 77W/320) Stop
ZAG-MUC-YYZ (OU Y DH4 / LH J 333)
150,000 miles pp (2 adults, 1 child, 1 infant)
Taxes, fees, surcharges: $411.26 pp plus the booking fee (couldn't get the booking to complete online, and had to use two AE accounts).
If anyone has any advice on visiting Taiwan and Croatia (places to stay, what to see/do [family friendly]) etc. that would be very much appreciated! We're probably going to maximize our use of airbnb. Also, tips for the airlines/flight numbers/seat selection are also welcome!