Originally Posted by
dvs7310
This is a super interesting one for me, glad you posted the full breakout like this. I was looking at a somewhat similar itinerary but was comparing doing ex-TYO and ex-CAI. The base price of ex-CAI is a lot less but looks like you're getting hit with a lot more YQ and your total price is quite similar to the last ex-TYO I priced out. I'm doing Africa this time instead of South America (did that last year). I'm getting between 960,000 JPY to about 1,100,000 JPY depending if I use QF or AA for New Zealand to North America (QF cheaper interestingly but VERY hard to find D availability), so that's just a hair more than your ex-CAI itinerary and I wouldn't have to deal with positioning flights to CAI (I hate that airport).
That is interesting. Just FYI for full disclosure for you, when I changed the flight times around to get the stopovers vs transits correct, and changed the DEL-LHR-AMM on BA to DEL-DOH-AMM on QR, I was able to reduce the surcharges a bit. The full final prices was $6,383 ($4,700 base fare plus $1,683 taxes/charges).
I possibly could have moved a few other flights around to reduce the surcharges a bit more, but I ended up booking this when EUR-USD rate was briefly up over 1.10 USD to 1 EUR, so I got a decent deal I think.