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Dec 10, 2017 | 3:22 pm

#693

ernestnywang

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tkelvin69

I'm a bit confused and hopefully can get some accurate information. At the RTW OW site I am able to construct a DONE4 that takes me to the payment page with a total price of 97,800 ZAR (first seg JNB-MAD). I wanted to book via the AA RTW desk but they kept faring the base at about 15% more with the total at 111,000 ZAR. I had them reprice it and it came back the same. The explanation I got was that they have to use either the AA/BA/IB fare and the OW site was using the QR fare but couldn't explain why the fare difference. She also said "AA RTW desk is the OW desk for all RTW tickets and we can do all changes you need in the future regardless of the carrier".

I will need to make date changes in the future and maybe routing and wanted it to be easy and thus prefer AA but not at a premium of 15%. If I book it via the RTW OW site do I need to deal exclusively with QR for changes and seat selections if issued on their stock?

Thanks

Looks like it's because QR has not adjusted the price. There was an increase to ex-JNB price recently. If you can still get the old rate from either the website or QR, you are lucky!

Code:

FQJNBJNB-QR‡BD«                                                
JNB-JNB       CXR-QR       MON 11DEC17                     ZAR 
//SEE FQHELP FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE NEW FARE DISPLAYS//     
  SURCHARGE FOR PAPER TICKET MAY BE ADDED WHEN ITIN PRICED     
QR     JNBJNB.CT       11DEC17          MPM                    
   V  FARE BASIS AP  FARE-OW   FARE-RT BK   SEASON  MINMAX  RTG
  1    DONEWC3    ‡           80460.00 D‡   ---      -/12M CT01
  2    DONEWC4    ‡           88410.00 D‡   ---      -/12M CT02
                                                               
QR     JNBJNB.RW       11DEC17          MPM                    
   V  FARE BASIS AP  FARE-OW   FARE-RT BK   SEASON  MINMAX  RTG
  3    DONE3      ‡           80460.00 D‡   ---      -/12M RW01
  4    DGLOB34    ‡           88410.00 D‡   ---      -/12M RW02
  5    DONE4      ‡           88410.00 D‡   ---      -/12M RW03
  6    DONE5      ‡          101820.00 D‡   ---      -/12M RW04
  7    DONE6      ‡          120750.00 D‡   ---      -/12M RW05
                                                               
*** THERE ARE NO YY FARES PUBLISHED JNB-JNB ***                
                                                               
CT01*  /CIRCLE TRIP/ PUBLISHED RTG 3033                        
       TRAVEL IS NOT PERMITTED VIA THE FARE ORIGIN             
       1. 230-*O-230                                           
       2. 230-*O-230-*O-230                                    
       3. 230-*O-230-*O-230-*O-340-*O-310/320/330-*O-310/320/  ‡
FQJNBJNB-AA‡BD«                                                
JNB-JNB       CXR-AA       MON 11DEC17                     ZAR 
//SEE FQHELP FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE NEW FARE DISPLAYS//     
  SURCHARGE FOR PAPER TICKET MAY BE ADDED WHEN ITIN PRICED     
AA     JNBJNB.RW       11DEC17          MPM                    
   V  FARE BASIS AP  FARE-OW   FARE-RT BK   SEASON  MINMAX  RTG
  1    DGLOB34    ‡          102000.00 D‡   ---      -/12M RW01
  2    DONE4      ‡          102000.00 D‡   ---      -/12M RW02
  3    DONE5      ‡          116000.00 D‡   ---      -/12M RW03
  4    DONE6      ‡          137000.00 D‡   ---      -/12M RW04
                                                               
*** THERE ARE NO YY FARES PUBLISHED JNB-JNB ***                
                                                               
RW01*  /ROUND THE WORLD/ PUBLISHED RTG 34                      
       MUST NOT EXCEED MPM 34000                               
       TRAVEL IS NOT PERMITTED VIA THE FARE ORIGIN             
RW02*  /ROUND THE WORLD/ PUBLISHED RTG 47                      
       TRAVEL IS NOT PERMITTED VIA THE FARE ORIGIN             
       1. ZA-*O-210/220-*O-210/220-*O-210/220-*O-210/220-*O-   
          210/220-*O-000/140/160-*O-000/140/160-*O-000/140/160-
          *O-000/140/160-*O-000/140/160-*O-000/140/160-*O-000/ 
          140/160-*XU-*O-310/320/330/350-*O-310/320/330/350-*O-
          *XU-*O-310/320/330/350-*O-ZA                         
       2. ZA-*O-210/220-*O-210/220-*O-210/220-*O-210/220-*O-   ‡

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